https://mikedashhistory.com/ask-mike/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1978-congress-of-freaks-1.jpgScreenshotScreenshothttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/still-from-death-mills-1.jpgScreenshotScreenshothttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/willow-run-1.jpgScreenshotScreenshothttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/mcintosh-coins.pngMcIntosh coinsCoins minted in the Sultanate of Kilwa in about 1200, and found in the Wessel Islands, Arnhem Land in 1943.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/carron-point.jpgCarron PointThe beach at Carron Point, New Brunswickhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/the-beach-at-carron-point-from-service-new-brunswick-1998-digital-topographic-data-base-dtdb98.jpgThe beach at Carron Point, from Service New Brunswick 1998 Digital Topographic Data Base (DTDB98)https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bathurstfront_1933_lac.jpgBathurstFront_1933_LACThe Carron Point lighthouse in 1933https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_beach-main20100809_75.jpgimg_beach-main20100809_75The beach at Carron Point, New Brunswickhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/164117f.jpgAlexander I 1812 kopekA Russian 2-kopek coin minted in 1812, during the reign of Alexander Ihttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/uttarakhand-map.pngUttarakhand map2025-06-30T23:47:32+00:00weekly0.6https://mikedashhistory.com/2016/10/31/dreamtime-voyagers-australian-aborigines-in-early-modern-makassar/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/warning.pngWarninghttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/remains-of-the-trade.pngremains-of-the-tradeThe remains of the trade: a tamarind tree, planted by Makassan trepangers, and an abandoned hearth, photographed at Melville Bay in 1967. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/makassar-in-1669.jpgmakassar-in-1669Engraving of the conquest of Makassar by a Dutch fleet in 1669. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/joseph_beete_jukes.jpgjoseph_beete_jukesJoseph Jukes, who in 1845 encountered an Aborigine who was returning to Australia from a winter spent in Makassar.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/top-end1.pngtop-endAustralia's Top End, showing the main place and peoples mentioned in the text. Click to view in higher resolution.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the-trepang-trade-in-raffles-bay-1846-showing-praus-smokehouses-and-boiling-pits.pngthe-trepang-trade-in-raffles-bay-1846-showing-praus-smokehouses-and-boiling-pitsThe Makassan trepang trade in Raffles Bay. This sketch dates to the middle of the 19th century, but the smokehouses and boiling pits that can be seen in it are typical of earlier periods of the trade. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dreamtime-voyagers-group.pngdreamtime-voyagers-groupDreamtime voyagers: the items in this remarkable group of portraits are the only known images of Aboriginal voyagers to Makassar. The photos – captioned "Orang Mereghi: Australiani del Nord fotografati a Macassar (Selebes)" were taken in the city in 1873 and now form part of the collection of Odoardo Beccari in the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico 'Luigi Pigorini' in Rome.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dreamtime-voyagers-3.pngdreamtime-voyagers-3https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dreamtime-voyagers-2.pngdreamtime-voyagers-2https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/dreamtime-voyagers.pngdreamtime-voyagers2025-04-07T10:26:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2019/01/18/ask-mike/2024-01-30T14:46:46+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/01/18/my-little-soldier/2024-01-19T15:44:02+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/02/13/an-abandoned-lifeboat-at-worlds-end/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/d09ad0b8d182d0bed0b1d0bed0b9d0bdd0b0d18f-d184d0bbd0bed182d0b8d0bbd0b8d18f-22d0a1d0bbd0b0d0b2d0b022.-d0a7d0bbd0b5d0bd-d0bdd0b0d183d187d0bdd0bed0b9-d18dd0bad181d0bfd0b5d0b4d0b8d186d0b8d0b8-1.jpgКитобойная флотилия Слава. Член научной экспедиции китобойцев на о. Буве — 7504214https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/d09ad0b8d182d0bed0b1d0bed0b9d0bdd0b0d18f-d184d0bbd0bed182d0b8d0bbd0b8d18f-22d0a1d0bbd0b0d0b2d0b022.-d0a7d0bbd0b5d0bd-d0bdd0b0d183d187d0bdd0bed0b9-d18dd0bad181d0bfd0b5d0b4d0b8d186d0b8d0b8.jpgКитобойная флотилия Слава. Член научной экспедиции китобойцев на о. Буве — 7504214https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bouvet-lifeboat-hi-res-e1510835220333.pngBouvet lifeboat hi-resThe unidentified whaler or ship's lifeboat found abandoned on Bouvet Island on 2 April 1964https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bouvet-lifeboat-hi-res.jpgBouvet lifeboat hi resThe unidentified whaler or ship's lifeboat found abandoned on Bouvet Island on 2 April 1964https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ob-3.pngOb 3https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bouvet-boat-2.pngBouvet boat 2https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/unloading-an-an-2-aircraft-from-the-diesel-electric-icebreaker-on-on-to-coastal-ice-at-mirny.pngUnloading an AN-2 aircraft from the diesel-electric icebreaker ON on to coastal ice at Mirny2024-11-20T20:13:53+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/08/02/friedrich-engels-irish-muse/2023-03-27T08:36:54+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2022/03/08/the-sin-eaters-a-preview/2022-09-04T21:10:15+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/about/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1.png1Mike Dashhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/taiga.pngtaigahttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/aci.pngACIhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/duck-calls.pngDuck callshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/jul-14.pngJul 14https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/human-leopard.pngHuman leopardThe Man-Leopard Murdershttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/commendations-2.pngCommendations 2https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ruamahanga-front-e1431282259362.pngRuamahanga frontA plank and a helmet, a bell and a skullhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/olive-3.jpgTattooed LadyThe Blue Tattoohttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/wych2.jpgwych2Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?2022-08-12T07:56:13+00:00weekly0.6https://mikedashhistory.com/audio/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/wu.pngwuhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/aqua-tofana.pngAqua Tofanahttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/spring-heeled-jack-3.pngSpring-heeled Jackhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/batavias-graveyard-2.pngBatavia's Graveyard2022-07-25T19:43:51+00:00weekly0.6https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/09/15/final-straggler-the-japanese-soldier-who-outlasted-hiroo-onoda/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/three-survivors.pngThree survivorsThree survivors – Hiroo Onoda in old age; Shoichi Yokoi on his return from Guam; and Hika Kazuko, the supposed femme fatale of Anatahan.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/higa_kazuko_the_queen_of_anatahan-1.jpgHiga_Kazuko,_the_Queen_of_Anatahan-1https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/shoichi-yokoi.jpgShoichi Yokoihttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/revenge-of-the-pearl-queen.jpgRevenge of the Pearl QueenThe experiences of the 21 Japanese sailors – and one civilian woman – left living on the island of Anatahan between 1945 and 1951 was dramatised in two films. The Japanese entry, XXX's Revenge of the Pearl Queen, starring Michiko Maeda, is a good example of how the unusual situation on the island was glamorised and sexualised.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/japanese-soldiers-on-the-march.jpgJapanese soldiers on the marchJapanese soldiers of the World War II period.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/onoda-suzuki.pngOnoda SuzukiOnoda leaves the jungle after 29 years. The adventurer who found him, Norio Suzuki, is on the left.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/shigeyuki-hashimoto-and-kiyoaki-tanaka.pngShigeyuki Hashimoto and Kiyoaki TanakaShigeyuki Hashimoto and Kiyoaki Tanaka after their surrender at the end of 1989. The poor quality of the image, and the difficulty of locating it in a contemporary newspaper – the Kokomo Tribune – reflect the two men's liminal status, caught between Malaysia and Thailand, legitimate conflict and failed guerrilla campaigns, war and peace.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/rtrd5er.jpgTsuzuki NakauchiA wartime comrade identifies a contemporary photo of claimed Japanese holdout Tsuzuki Nakauchi.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/vella-lavella-interior.pngVella Lavella interiorRainforest in the interior of Vella Lavella.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/kolombangara.pngKolombangaraKolombangara, in the Solomon Islands, is small but mountainous. It measures not quite 10 miles across, but is dominaed by a central massif that reaches heights of almost 6,000 feet (1,770m). It was home to about 10,000 Japanese soldiers during the war, but was "leapfrogged" by the advancing Americans and evacuated by the Japanese army by October 1943, making suggestions of holdouts on the island less credible. 2025-02-15T20:08:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2021/05/19/the-twopenny-hangover/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/twopeny-hangover-likely-reconstruction.pngTwopenny hangover - sourced online and probably another still from The Great Train Robbery. Note the same number of lines, the identically-positioned doorway, and the man on the far right of the third line wearing a hat and facing AWAY from the camera...Twopenny hangover - sourced online and probably another still from The Great Train Robbery. Note the same number of lines, the identically-positioned doorway, and the man on the far right of the third line wearing a hat and facing AWAY from the camera...https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/charles-dickens-e28093-a-daguerrotype-taken-in-1852.pngCharles Dickens – a daguerrotype taken in 1852Charles Dickens – a daguerrotype taken in 1852https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/a-new-york-seven-cent-lodging-house-photographed-at-night-by-jacob-riis-2.jpga New York seven-cent lodging house, photographed at night by Jacob RiisA New York seven-cent lodging house, photographed at night by Jacob Riis in about 1888.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/jacob-riis.pngJacob RiisJacob Riishttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/george-orwell-1.pngGeorge OrwellGeorge Orwell2025-10-22T02:55:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/01/25/some-experiments-with-severed-heads/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/wiertz-study-of-severed-heads.pngWiertz study of severed headsAntoine Wiertz, "A severed head." Undated study.2022-01-24T13:51:17+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/03/19/on-heroic-self-sacrifice/2021-12-17T13:57:20+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/07/24/a-prison-curiosity/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/richard-honeck-with-clara-orth-1963.jpgRichard Honeck with Clara Orth, 1963https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/indian-harbor.pngIndian HarborThe Indian Harbor Yacht Club – site of the 1949 murder for which Frank Smith continues to do time.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/weger.pngWegerChester Weger remains in jail for the murder of three women at Starved Rock, Illinois, in 1960. Their hands had been bound with twine, and a bloodstained branch was found nearby. Weger protests his innocence, but items from the murder scene that he says could prove his innocence were contaminated, making DNA testing impossible.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/james-slagle.pngJames SlagleJames Slagle: "If you play a role long enough, you become what you are pretending to be."https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/joe-ligon-before-and-after.jpgJoe Ligon before and afterJoe Ligon before and during: at the time of his arrest in 1953, and snapped again in 2016, at the time he turned down an offer of parole.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/charles-edret-ford-after.jpgCharles Edret Ford afterCharles Edret Ford after - in December 2015, arriving at the hearing at which he was released into the care of a nursing home. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/mask1.jpegmaskThe Man in the Iron Mask – a fanciful depiction by Michel Moniquet, 1948. Contemporary descriptions of the mysterious prisoner suggest the mask he wore was made of velvet.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/honeck-weekend-issue.pnghoneck-weekend-issuehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/soren-mathiasen-before-and-after.pngsoren-mathiasen-before-and-afterSøren Mathiasen before and towards the end of his record sentence, served in Horsens State Prison, Denmark.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/horsens-prison.jpghorsens-prison2021-09-20T20:50:36+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/05/25/the-child-murder-that-gave-voodoo-its-bad-name/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/soulouque.pngSoulouqueFaustin Soulouque—better known as Emperor Faustin I (1849-1859)—was the first Haitian leader to openly support vodou. A former slave, he derived "mystical prestige" from his association with the religion.2021-10-12T15:56:20+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2016/07/16/king-magician-general-slave-eunus-and-the-first-servile-war-against-rome/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/taormina-e28093-roman-era-tauromenium-e28093-showing-the-dramatic-cliffs-from-which-eunuss-rebel-garrison-were-hurled-to-their-deaths-after-the-fall-of-the-city.jpgTaormina – Roman-era Tauromenium – showing the dramatic cliffs from which Eunus's rebel garrison were hurled to their deaths after the fall of the cityTaormina – Roman-era Tauromenium – showing the dramatic cliffs from which Eunus's rebel garrison were hurled to their deaths after the fall of the city.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/antiochus-the-great-bust-in-the-liovre.jpgAntiochus the Great - bust in the LiovreAntiochus the Great, the Selucid emperor after whom Eunus named himself "King Antiochus." A bust in the Louvre.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/antiochus-bronze-coin.pngAntiochus bronze coinA poor-quality bronze coin issued in Sicily around Eunus's time. Peter Morton suggests that this, more than any other surviving piece of evidence, is likely to show the head of "King Antiochus" as he wished to be seen by his subjects.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/lucius_annaeus_florus_74-130.jpgLucius_Annaeus_Florus_(74-130)The Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus's history contains an epitome of lost lines from Livy offering vital clues to the character of Eunus.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/florus.jpegFlorusLucius Annaeus Florus, the Roman historian whose epitome of Livy contains vital clues to the character of Eunus.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/eunus-square.pngEunus squarehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/comic_history_of_rome_p_231_arrest_of_eunus.jpgComic_History_of_Rome_p_231_Arrest_of_EunusA satirical portrayal of the capture of Eunus, from the 19th century Comic History of Rome. The slave-kings bewilderment, and the motley group of companions captured with him, accurately reflect the tone of Diodorus Sicculus's lines.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/eunus-3.pngeunus 3https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/eunus-alternate.pngeunus alternatehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/eunus-statue-outside-the-walls-of-enna.pngEunus - statue outside the walls of EnnaA statue of Eunus outside the walls of a citadel in Enna, the formidable hill-top fortress that was his ancient capital.2021-09-06T08:30:05+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/a-little-bit-of-background/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/red-barn-copy.jpgRed barn copyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/leonard-parkinson.jpgleonard parkinson2021-06-09T14:18:20+00:00weekly0.6https://mikedashhistory.com/video/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/film-frame-sepia.jpg16026934 - grunge sepia film strip frame16026934 - grunge sepia film strip frame2021-06-09T12:00:47+00:00weekly0.6https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/04/18/the-loss-of-the-saladin-and-the-search-for-walter-powell-mp/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/accident.jpgAccidentThe accident to the balloon Saladin at Bridport, 10 December 1881 [The Graphic, 17 December 1881]https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/boer-balloon.jpgboer-balloonBalloon used for observation during the Boer Warhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/img181.jpgimg181Walter Powell M.P.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/saladin-sightings-1881-83.jpgSaladin sightings 1881-83https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/saladin.gifsaladinThe Saladin balloon, c.1881.2021-05-24T12:28:27+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/12/18/the-shoguns-reluctant-ambassadors/2021-04-15T08:40:57+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/06/04/run-out-of-town-on-an-ass-how-queen-victoria-allegedly-struck-bolivia-off-the-map/2022-07-20T04:35:07+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2016/09/04/the-bodies-in-the-bogs/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tollund-man-last-meal1.jpgtollund-man-last-mealhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tollund-man-last-meal.jpgtollund-man-last-mealhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the-double-male-eros-friendship-and-mentonig1.pngthe-double-male-eros-friendship-and-mentonighttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/the-double-male-eros-friendship-and-mentonig.pngthe-double-male-eros-friendship-and-mentonighttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/b1.jpgbThe Ballachulish figure photographed just after its discovery, and before it was allowed to dry out. Note her hands, which appear to grasp a pair of severed penises.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/b.jpgbThe Ballachulish figure photographed just after its discovery, and before it was allowed to dry out. Note her hands, which appear to grasp a pair of severed penises.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/lindow-death-reconstruction.jpgLindow death reconstructionReconstruction of the death of Lindow Man by archaeological illustrator Aoife Patterson.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/k1.pngKThe body of Rendswühren Man, found in Saxony in 1871. He had been murdered and his penis had been severed from his body.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/k.pngKRendswühren Man, found in a Saxon bog in 1871, died aged roughly 45 around 0 A.D. The only method of preserving the remains was by smoking them. Enough survived to show he had been killed by a blow to the head – and that his penis had been removed.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/t.pngtA pair of idols, one male, the other female, found at Ostholstein in Schleswig-Holstein and dating to 400 B.C. The male figure is 9 feet [2.75m] tall.2022-11-14T11:38:57+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/05/06/curses-archduke-franz-ferdinand-and-his-astounding-death-car/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/princip-arested.jpgprincip-arestedGavrilo Princip under arresthttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/armisticeplateinterpreted.jpgArmistice+plate+interpretedThe number plate interpretedhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/princip_not_arrested.jpgPrincip_not_arrestedhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/plate.jpgplateThe death car turning off Appel Quay, only a few moments before the assassinationhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/hunter.jpgHunterFran Ferdinand as hunter, with the day's baghttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/house-of-mystery-020-nov-1953-p18.jpgHouse of Mystery 020 Nov 1953 P18https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ferdinand-plate.jpegFerdinand plateClose up of the vehicle's number-platehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/deathcar.jpgDeath+carhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/car_with_bulletholes.jpgcar_with_bulletholesFranz Ferdinand's Graf und Stift, Heeresgeschichtliche Museum, Vienna. The bulletholes in the vehicle are still visible.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/887_erzherzog_franz_ferdinand_von_oesterreich.jpg887_Erzherzog_Franz_Ferdinand_von_OesterreichFran Ferdinand2022-08-15T07:12:01+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/06/29/wonderful-terrific-and-eccentric-magazines/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/wonderful1.jpgwonderful+1Frontispiece for the Wonderful Magazinehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/index.jpgIndexhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bowdlerised.pngbowdlerised2020-07-02T14:55:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/07/19/the-horrible-history-of-the-ostrich-inn/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/draft_lens3253522module29629372photo_1240684025the_ostrich_inn_colnbrook_slough_500x524.jpgdraft_lens3253522module29629372photo_1240684025The_Ostrich_Inn_Colnbrook_Slough_500x524The Ostrich Inn, Colnbrook2023-06-12T21:32:20+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/08/18/lord-dacres-ghost/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/lorddacre_0.jpgLord+Dacre_0Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre)2020-07-02T14:47:31+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/05/15/emily-bronte-a-fantasy-prone-personality/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/9780141326696.jpg9780141326696https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/emily_bronte.jpgemily_bronteEmily Brontë: a fantasy-prone personality?2020-07-02T14:26:32+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/06/25/ghosts-witches-vampires-fairies-and-the-law-of-murder/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1741-1.jpg1741The earliest known account of a ‘Windigo murder,’ from the 1741 papers of the Hudson’s Bay Company.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/swift-runner-remains.jpgSwift Runner remainshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/swiftrunnerstory.jpg.jpegswiftrunnerstory.jpgSwift Runner, the cannibal Cree, shortly before his execution.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/clearyfireplace-1.jpgClearyfireplaceThe fireplace in Bridget Cleary's home.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ghost-1.jpgGhostThomas Millwood meets his end. From a contemporary book illustration.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/swiftrunnerstory-jpg.jpegswiftrunnerstory.jpg2021-01-10T23:43:00+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/08/11/the-demonization-of-empress-wu/2020-04-20T14:28:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04/06/aqua-tofana-slow-poisoning-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/square1.pngSquarehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/square.pngSquarehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/mackay-on-naples1.pngMackay on Napleshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/palermo-1572.jpgPalermo 1572Palermo as it was at the time the poisoner Giulia Tofana was born there. From the 1572 atlas of Georg Braun and Hogenberg.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/saint-simon.jpgSaint-SimonLouis de Rouvroy, the duc de San-Simon (1675-1755). His gossipy memoirs made light of the Poisons Affair.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/amatory-mass.jpgAmatory massThe Abbé Guibourg prepares to sacrifice an infant during an amatory mass. From 'The Guibourg Mass' by Henry de Malvost, Paris, 1903.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/le-tellier.jpgLe TellierFrançois-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois. One of Louis XIV's most trusted servants – and a future French Secretary of State for War – Le Tellier was involved in the examination of the poisoner Exili at the Bastille.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/bastille.pngBastilleThe Bastille, Paris's state prison, was where the marquise de Brinvilliers' lover Gaudin de St Croixe met the Italian poisoner Egidi Exili.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/detail-from-sc3a9bastien-bourdons-1642-of-christina-of-sweden2.pngDetail from Sébastien Bourdon's 1642 of Christina of SwedenDetail from Sébastien Bourdon's 1652 portrait of Christina of Sweden.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/renato-bianco.pngRenato BiancoRenato Bianco, a pefumer and alleged poisoner, accompanied Catherine de Medici to France in 1533.2021-01-08T17:17:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2015/01/15/blonde-cargoes-finnish-children-in-the-slave-markets-of-medieval-crimea/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/building-fortification.pngBuilding fortificationMuscovite troops construct anti-Tatar fortifications along the steppe frontierhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/roxelana.pngRoxelanaAleksandra Lisowska, also known as Roxelana, was a Polish subject taken as a slave during the 1520s who became the favourite wife of Suleiman, the greatest of all Ottoman sultans, and mother of Sultan Selim II. From a contemporary painting.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/caffa.jpgCaffaThe Crimean port of Caffa (seen here in the 19th century) lay at the heart of the steppes slave tradehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/map.pngMapThe Crimean Khanate and its immediate neighbours in 1600.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/tatar-slaver.pngTatar slaverA Tatar makes off with a female captive in another heavily prejudiced portrayal of the slave trade. Crimean raiders did indeed travel with spare horses, as depicted here, but they secured captives by the hundred and most of the men, women and children they took were required to walk. It was for this reason that the slavers killed most of the youngest and the oldest of their prisoners.2020-03-12T14:07:32+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/03/09/a-secret-plot-to-rescue-napoleon-by-submarine/2020-02-19T12:00:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2014/12/29/queen-victorias-5-the-strange-tale-of-turkish-aid-to-ireland-during-the-great-famine/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/infected-potato-phytophthora-infestans.jpgInfected potato phytophthora infestansThe fungus Phytophthora infestans was responsible for the great potato blight of 1846. The strain had its origins in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/drogheda-argus-highlighted-15-may-1847.pngDrogheda Argus highlighted 15 May 1847The "Imports" column of the Drogheda Argus, 15 May 1847, notes the arrival of three foreign ships – including the two highlighted, which sailed from "Ceylonica" – modern Thessaloniki2026-03-31T20:58:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/09/08/pablo-fanques-fair/2019-12-08T11:26:38+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/09/27/naked-as-nature-intended-catherine-crowe-in-edinburg-february-1854/2023-03-17T18:41:29+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/09/23/amazons-the-king-of-dahomeys-all-woman-army/2019-11-27T12:21:19+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/10/31/above-the-senior-wrangler/2020-10-21T21:34:26+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2015/12/28/the-breton-bluebeard/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/barbebleue.jpgBarbebleueGustave Doré's engraving "Barbe-bleu" (1862) for a French edition of Perrault.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/leland-1745.pngLeland 1745https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/leland-extract-toulmin-smith.pngLeland extract - Toulmin Smithhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/john-leland.jpgJohn LelandHenry VIII's antiquary, John Leland – the first man to note the existence of the ancient Cornish stone that mentions a "Conomorus".https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/britain-circa-540.jpgBritain.circa.540Britain at the time of Conomor, showing British polities in black and Saxon ones in red. The British states include Dumnonia (Cornwall and Devon); Strathclyde is here shown as "Damnonia." Image: Wikicommons. Click to show in higher resolution.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/castle_dore.jpgCastle_DoreThe hill fort at Castle Dore, near Fowey. it dates to the Iron Age but remained in use at least as late as the Roman occupation.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monts-darecc81e-2.pngMonts d'Arée 2The Monts d'Arée, in the far western reaches of Brittany, are an elevated wilderness of heather and bracken running like a spine through central Finistère. It was here, in about 560, that the decisive battle that cost Conomor the Cursed his life is supposed to have been fought.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monts-darecc81e.pngMonts d'Aréehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monts-darecc81e-3.pngMonts d'Arée 3https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/monts-darecc81e-4.pngMonts d'Arée 4The Monts d'Arée, in the far western reaches of Brittany are an elevated wilderness of heather and bracken running like a spine through central Finistère. They were the site of the decisive battle in about 560 in which Conomor the Cursed lost his life. 2019-11-27T12:18:01+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/09/15/gavrilo-princips-sandwich/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/soares-12-fiunger.jpgSoares 12 fingerJo Soarses's 12 Fingers, the earliest source found, to date, that mentions Gavrilo Princip's sandwich.2024-09-24T22:58:58+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/07/24/the-grey-dog-of-meoble/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/06_lochan_tain_mhic_dhughaill_26_lochan_abhrodainn_from_summit_glas-charn.jpg06_Lochan_Tain_Mhic_Dhughaill__Lochan_a'Bhrodainn_from_summit_Glas-charnLochan Tain Mhic Dhugaill, seen from the summit of Glas Charnhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lochan-tain-mhic-dougall-from-descent-from-meith-bheinn.jpgLochan Tain Mhic Dougall from descent from Meith BheinnLochan Tain Mhic Dougall from Meith Bheinnhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/beoraid.jpgbeoraidhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/morarmap.jpgmorarmaphttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/greydogisle.jpgGreyDogIslehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lochan.jpgLochan2023-05-07T21:01:45+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2014/12/16/the-fayum-mummy-portraits/2021-03-28T02:04:25+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/06/28/a-scottish-spinster-at-the-battle-of-nechtanesmere-685ad/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/monadhruadh.jpgmonadhruadhThe cleft in the hills at Dunachton, in the Monadh Ruadh mountains. Picture: Geograph.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/nechtansmere-map.jpgnechtansmere mapMap of Miss Smith's experience. From McKenzie, Hauntings & Apparitions.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/warrior.jpgwarriorA Pictish warrior – image lifted from another symbol stone. Note the details of his dress.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/pixtish-stone.pngpixtish stoneA Pictish symbol stone, now repurposed as a grave marker in Aberlemno churchyard, Scotland. It can be dated to around the late eighth century and is thought to depict the Battle of Nechtansmere.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/nechtanesmere.jpgNechtanesmereDunnichen Hill: large enough to hide an army behind?https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/alex-woolf.pngalex-woolfAlex Woolf, of the University of St Andrews" rethought the location of Nechtansmere.2019-01-26T20:10:02+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/09/07/the-chupatty-movement/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/an-enfield-musket-rifle-cartridge-of-1853-of-the-type-that-e28093-inadvertently-e28093-helped-to-spark-the-bloody-indian-uprising-of-1857-58.pngAn Enfield musket rifle cartridge of 1853 of the type that – inadvertently – helped to spark the bloody Indian uprising of 1857-58https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/kashmir-gate.pngKashmir GateThe Kashmir Gate, in Delhi, was the scene of the climatic battle of the rebellion. Photographed some months later by Felice Beato, it still bears clear signs of the action it saw.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/vellore-turban1.pngVellore turbanThe Vellore Mutiny of 1806 was sparked by a different, but equally potent, rumour: that the British were introducing a new form of turban to Indian uniforms.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/vellore-turban.pngVellore turbanThe Vellore Mutiny of 1806 was sparked by a different, but equally potent, rumour: that the British were introducing a new form of turban to Indian uniforms.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sepoy.pngSepoyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/madras-army-gty.jpgMadras-Army-gtyMen from various regiments in the army of the Presidency of Madras. In 1857 – unlike in 1806 – the Madras forces remained loyal.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/indian_rebellion_hangings-beato.gifIndian_Rebellion_Hangings BEatoThe 1857 rising came close to success and resulted in extremes of violence on both sides – including the deaths of hundreds of British women and children. British responses were equally brutal.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/chupatty_0.jpgChupatty_0The uprising spread through much of the northern provinces of India, but left most of the territories of teh Bombay and Madras Presidencies untouched. Click to enlarge.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/chapati.jpgchapatiWhy were thousands of chapatis – an Indian unleavened bread – carried by night across the interior of India in the months before the outbreak of the great Sepoy Rebellion? And why did not even the people who bore them know what they were for?https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/indian-mutiny-disarming-3000-gty.jpgIndian-mutiny-disarming-3000-gty2018-10-01T15:20:34+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/02/11/the-monster-of-glamis-2/2018-08-29T10:41:40+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/10/16/erotic-secrets-of-lord-byrons-tomb/2020-09-09T06:29:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/08/31/the-miniature-coffins-found-on-arthurs-seat/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/samuel-menefee.jpgSamuel Menefeehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/edinburgh-castle-and-the-town-with-arthurs-seat-in-the-backbround-from-an-image-dated-1955.jpgEdinburgh Castle and the town, with Arthur's Seat in the backbround, from an image dated 1955.Edinburgh Castle and the town, with Arthur's Seat in the background, from an image dated 1955.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/west-bow-edinburgh-in-1830.jpgWest Bow, Edinburgh, in 1830West Bow, Edinburgh, in 1830, showing the old city as it was at about the time of the coffins' discovery.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/coffins-details.jpgCoffins detailsDetail of one of the surviving coffins and two of the "dolls" that they contained.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/coffins-detail.jpgCoffins detailClose up showing the faces of two of the figures from the Edinburgh coffins.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/coffins-1.jpgCoffins 1Seventeen miniature coffins were discovered on Arthur's Seat in 1836 and eight of them survive today in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/burke-and-hare.jpgBurke and HareWilliam Burke [right] and his accomplice William Hare, the infamous Edinburgh murderers and bodysnatchers, were captured in 1828.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/salisbury-crags-2.jpgsalisbury-crags-2Salisbury Crags loom over Edinburgh's old city centre, just to the north of Arthur's Seat.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/salisbury_crags.jpgSalisbury_Cragshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/salisbury_crags-1.jpgSalisbury_Crags (1)2024-09-23T10:44:33+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/07/29/the-king-of-hard-currency/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/savannah-waterfrontst.jpgSavannah waterfrontstThe Savannah waterfront at the Augusta canal, as O'Keefe would have remembered it during his years in Yap, photographed around the time of the Civil War.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/yap-from-the-air.jpgYap from the airThe island of Yap from the air: a wester Pacific paradise where almost everything needed to sustain life grew comfortably to hand.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/his-majesty-okeefe.jpgHis Majesty O'KeefeO'Keefe's story was given the Hollywood treatment in the 1950s – a version that considerably exaggerated his role on Yap and indulged all the usual South Sea island stereotypes.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/remains-of-okeefes-house.jpgRemains of OKeefe's houseThe remains of Captain O'Keefe's home on Yap – photographed only a few years after his disappearance, and already reverting rapidly to jungle.2018-02-08T09:19:21+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/08/12/tamam-shud/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/torn-rubaiyat.jpgTorn Rubaiyathttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/unknown-man-2.jpgUnknown man 2The unknown man found on Somerton Beach. Investigators have commented that the man's features, photographed sometime after death, give a misleading impression of his appearance in real life.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/suitcase-and-contents.jpgSuitcase and contentshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/location-of-body.jpgLocation of body"X" marks the spot – Somerton Beach, showing the place where the mystery man's body was discovered on 26 December 1946.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bust.jpgBusthttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/actual-tamam-shud.jpgActual tamam shudhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/jestyn-inscription.jpgJestyn inscriptionhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/boxall.jpgBoxallhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/jestyn.jpgJestyn'Jestyn,' the nurse at the heart of the mystery, with her son – whom she would enrol in dance classes and who would go on to become a professional ballet dancer.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/marshall-rubaiyat.jpgMarshall RubaiyatThe Rubaiyat discovered by the body of George Marshall – an edition that should not, apparently, exist.2024-10-01T23:35:42+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/02/16/the-mysterious-mr-zedzed-the-wickedest-man-in-the-world/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/zaharoff-promenade.jpgZaharoff promenade2017-08-04T20:31:33+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/10/30/the-loneliest-shop-in-the-world-2/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/view-from-the-birdsville-track.pngView from the Birdsville trackThe view from the Birdsville Track.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mulka-station1.jpgMulka Stationhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mulka-station.jpgMulka StationMulka station in the Aiston's time – a major stopping-off point for drovers on the long journey south to the railheads to Adelaide.2020-01-08T16:34:44+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/11/30/truth-beauty-and-pancho-villa/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/original.jpgoriginal2017-06-04T17:35:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/10/06/in-search-of-queen-victorias-voice/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/edison-abroad-nyt-1889.pngEdison abroad NYT 18892017-06-04T17:34:24+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/05/09/the-old-man-of-the-lake/2017-05-26T14:06:25+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/07/22/islams-medieval-underworld/2017-04-29T00:29:53+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/06/20/shakushains-revolt/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ezo-shima-kikan-1.pngEzo-Shima-Kikan-1The Ainu illustrated with a captured bear in the Ezo Shima Kikan ("Strange Views from the Island of Ezo"), a set of three scrolls dating to 1840 that are now in the Brooklyn Museum. Click twice to view in higher resolution.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shakushain.jpgshakushainShakushain, the leader of Ainu resistance to Japan, is shown in this modern memorial on Hokkaido. Thanks to a postwar revival of Ainu nationalism, celebrations of indigenous culture are held each year at this spot. Photo: Wikicommons.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/matsumae.jpgMatsumaehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ainus-at-a-matsumae-border-customs-post-c18th.jpgAinus at a Matsumae border customs post-C18thAinu arrive at one of the new customs posts established after Shakushain’s revolt to allow Japan to control trade in Hokkaido.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ainubearsacrificecirca1870.jpgAinuBearSacrificeCirca1870The Ainu illustrated with a captured bear in the Ezo Shima Kikan ("Strange Views from the Island of Ezo"), a set of three scrolls dating to 1840 that are now in the Brooklyn Museum. Click twice to view in higher resolution.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/700px-historical_expanse_of_the_ainu-svg.png700px-Historical_expanse_of_the_Ainu.svg2017-04-11T21:42:03+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2016/05/30/sorcerers-and-soulstealers-hair-cutting-panics-in-old-china/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/william-t-rowe-crimson-rain-seven-centuries-of-violenceina-chinese-county-stanfrod-university-press-2007-p-198.pngWilliam T Rowe Crimson Rain- Seven Centuries of Violenceina Chinese County (Stanfrod University Press, 2007) p.198https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/constable-and-prisoner.pngConstable and prisonerThe soulstealing affair in miniature: a Chinese constable escorts his prisoner to jail.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pinyin.pngPinyinhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/anhui.jpgAnhuiA landscape in mountainous Anhwei province, one of three controlled by Governor-General G'aojin.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/vermillion.jpgVermillionAn example of the vermillion comments brushed onto official communications by the emperors of China. This one is a memorial addressed to Hungli's grandfather, the revered Kangxi emperor.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/buddhist-temple.pngBuddhist templeA well-patronised Buddhist temple on Wutai Mountain. Most temples were less magnificent and considerably poorer than this one.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/qing-officials-arresting-members-of-the-white-lotus-a-buddhist-secret-society.pngQing officials arresting members of the White Lotus, a Buddhist secret societyQing officials arresting members of the White Lotus, a Buddhist secret societyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/manchu-bannerman.pngManchu bannermanMartial race: a Manchu bannerman – a member of one of the eight great companies of warriors who underpinned the Qing state – painted to illustrate his noble qualities. Though cultured and literate (witness the writing materials at his elbow), he is also a vigorous warrior, happiest on horseback.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wandering-monk.jpgwandering monkWandering monks and Buddhist pilgrims were a staple of eastern societies for generations – this old photograph comes from Japan. They carried basic necessities in packs, and though this man seems considerably better equipped than most, even poorer mendicants might carry items such as scissors, needle and thread.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/manchu-bannermen.pngManchu bannermenManchu bannermen charge at the Battle of Qurman, fought in Turkestan in 1759.2016-10-08T09:43:54+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/07/24/three-1950s-youths-in-a-medieval-plague-village/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/butchers-1551-pieter-aetsen.jpgButchers 1551 Pieter AetsenA butcher's stall, from a 1551 painting by the Dutch master Pieter Aertsen.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/andrew-mackenzie-ghost-hunter.pngAndrew MacKenzie ghost hunterAndrew MacKenzie (1911-2001), a New Zealander, was a writer of detective stories and leading parapsychologist in the 1970s and 1980s.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kersey-1957.pngKersey 1957Kersey in 1957. Although Jack Merriott's watercolor presents an idealized image of the village – it was commissioned for use in a railway advertising campaign – it does give an idea of just how 'old' Kersey must have looked to strangers in the year it became central to a 'timeslip' case.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/bell-inn-kersey.jpgbell inn kerseyThe Bell Inn dates to the late 14th century – the period the Kersey percipients were convinced they had somehow visited.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/chatham-cadets-1940.jpgChatham cadets 1940Naval cadets parade in Chatham, Kent, a few years before the Kersey timeslip case.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kersey-postcard-c1912-ar-quinton-rphael-tuck-sons-ipswich.jpgKersey postcard c1912 AR Quinton Rphael Tuck & sons IpswichAnother look at old Kersey. This postcard, painted by AR Quentin and published by Raphael Tuck & Son of Ipswich, dates to c.1912.2016-10-28T16:35:30+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/10/01/a-visit-to-the-underworld-the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-tunnels-at-baiae/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/styx.jpgstyxThe underground stream that Paget dubbed the "River Styx." The water level is significantly lower now than it was in the 1960s, and the bed of the stream has been choked with rubble dumped there by successive investigators.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/doc.jpgdocFerrand Paget, who discovered – and considerably elaborated the story of – the mysterious tunnel system at Baia.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/interior-of-tunnel.jpginterior-of-tunnelThe Great Antrum is now lined with Roman-era cocciopesto waterproof cement. Image: oracleofthedead.com.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/antrum-entrance1.jpgantrum-entranceThe entrance to the Great Antrum – an easily-missed sliver in the midst of a larger Graeco-Roman temple complex.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fills.jpgfillsA plan of the interior of the Great Antrum's complex tunnel system.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shotgun-tunnels.jpgshotgun-tunnelsTwin tunnels inexplicably divide within the Great Antrum. Image: oracleofthedead.com.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sanctuary-filled.jpgsanctuary-filledhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/oracle-of-the-dead-overview_side.jpgoracle-of-the-dead-overview_sideA side view of the Oracle tunnel complex. 3D mapping by oracleofthedead.com.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/oracle-of-the-dead-tunnel-overview_top.jpgoracle-of-the-dead-tunnel-overview_topAn overview of the tunnel system at Baia – 3D modelling by John Smout of the Oracle of the Dead site. Reproduced with permission and thanks.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/twin-tunnels-inexplicably-divide-and-meet-again-behind-the-dividing-of-the-ways.jpgtwin-tunnels-inexplicably-divide-and-meet-again-behind-the-dividing-of-the-waysTwin tunnels inexplicably divide and meet again behind the "Dividing of the Ways." Image: oracleofthedead.com.2016-09-28T21:00:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/09/09/the-emperors-electric-chair/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/kemmlers-execution.pngkemmlers-executionhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lm-boyd-in-2001.jpglm-boyd-in-2001https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/irving-wallace.jpgirving-wallacehttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/alfred-ilg.pngalfred-ilghttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/robinson-maclean.jpgrobinson-macleanhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/danakil_depression.jpgdanakil_depressionhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/addis-palace-c-1915.jpgaddis-palace-c-1915https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/crowns1.jpgcrownsA display of Ethiopian crownshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/menelikcrown1.jpgmenelikcrownCrown of Menelik IIhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/pierre-van-paassen1.jpgpierre-van-paassen2026-03-03T21:07:49+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/08/30/walking-to-utopia/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bold-jack-donohue.jpgbold-jack-donohueThe bushranger Bold Jack Donohoe in death, soon after he began raiding farms in the hope of obtaining sufficient supplies to set out in search of the "white colony" believed to exist somewhere in Australia's interior.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/finnish-peasants-arctic-circle.jpgfinnish-peasants-arctic-circleFinnish peasants from the Arctic Circle, illustrated here after a photograph of 1871, told tales of the Chuds; in some legends they were dwellers underground, in others invaders who hunted down and killed native Finns even when they concealed themselves in pits. It is far from clear how these 17th-century troglodytic legends morphed into tales of the paradisiacal underground “Land of Chud” reported by Orlando Figes.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sydney-chain-gang.pngsydney-chain-gangAsutralian convicts formed into a chain gang – a sketch made near Sydney in 1842.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/australian-convicts.jpgaustralian-convictshttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/australasia-and-asia.jpgaustralasia-and-asiaFaith in the idea that it waspossible to walk from Australia to China depended on hazy notions of geography. The real distance is around 5,000 miles.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/blue-mountains.jpgblue-mountainsThe Blue Mountains formed an impassable barrier to early settlers in New South Wales. Legends soon grew up of a white colony located somewhere in the range, or past it, ruled by a "King of the Mountains." Not even the first successful passage of the chain, in 1813, killed off this myth.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/boldjack.jpgboldjackThe bushranger Bold Jack Donahoe in death, soon after he began raiding farms in the hope of obtaining sufficient supplies to set out in search of the "white colony" believed to exist somewhere in Australia's interior.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/phillip.jpgphillipArthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales, hoped that the craze for "Chinese traveling" was "an evil that would cure itself." He was wrong.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/finnish-convicts.jpgfinnish-convictsConvicts formed up into a chain gang in Sydney.2020-02-18T20:05:14+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/04/10/murder-in-the-potala/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/potala-palace-lhasa1.jpgPotala Palace LhasaThe Potala Palace, Lhasa: home to nine successive Dalai Lamas, a number of them suspiciously short-lived. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/potala-palace-lhasa.jpgPotala Palace Lhasa2016-09-13T09:25:24+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/02/25/colonel-parker-murderer/2017-10-30T12:26:03+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/09/25/the-swedish-meteor-the-blazing-career-and-mysterious-death-of-charles-xii/2023-02-07T23:58:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2014/05/10/the-last-secret-of-the-h-l-hunley-still-working/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/brinvilliers.pngBrinvilliersThe Marquise de Brinvilliers – slender, beautiful but shrewish – poisons her unsuspecting father.2020-08-28T03:20:03+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/08/19/stoney-jack-and-the-cheapside-hoard/2025-07-01T00:00:19+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/06/08/the-villisca-ax-murders-100-years-on/2017-12-04T13:06:07+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/04/05/the-strange-tale-of-the-warsaw-basilisk/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/parish-of-renwick.pngParish of renwickThis extract from Hutchinson's The History of Cumberland (I, 212) is the earliest known account of the Renwick cockatrice.2017-05-29T14:45:53+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2014/12/30/americas-first-highjacking/2019-07-07T04:15:06+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/02/19/in-the-cave-of-the-witches/2022-04-03T06:07:16+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/09/01/inside-the-great-pyramid/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pyramids.jpgPyramidsThe Great Pyramid–built for the Pharaoh Khufu in about 2570 B.C., sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and still arguably the most mysterious structure on the 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writers2015-09-23T09:58:25+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/12/16/the-great-tea-race/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/yorkshire-post-11-feb-1873.pngYorkshire Post 11 Feb 1873https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/manchester-times-30-nov-1872.pngManchester Times 30 Nov 18722024-01-15T00:08:28+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2013/01/28/lost-in-the-taiga/2021-04-02T17:07:25+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2012/01/10/the-most-terrible-tunnel/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bell-500x3291.jpgbell-500x329The diving bell used by Brunel to plug a hole in the bottom of the Thames.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/teredo_navalis_in_a_branch.jpgTeredo_navalis_in_a_branchhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/teredo.jpgteredohttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/driftway.pngDriftwayA Cornish miner in Richard Trevithick's cramped 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and Mao meet in Beijing, July 1958. Khrushchev would find himself less formally dressed at their swimming-pool talks a week later.2019-05-08T16:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/07/20/moving-on-up/2013-01-06T23:00:25+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/11/10/history-heroes-marc-bloch/2024-10-13T21:16:37+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/12/24/the-christmas-truce/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/saxon-team.jpgSaxon teamA faded photo of the 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment's pre-war football team was one of the souvenirs presented to Lieutenant Ian Stewart of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. Stewart remembered that the Saxons were "very proud" of their team's quality.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/boxing-day.jpgBoxing DayMen from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers meet their German counterparts in no man's land somewhere in the deadly Ypres Salient, December 26, 1914.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/german-trench.jpgGerman trenchA German trench in December 1914. Workmanship was far less sophisticated than it became later in the war, and the muddy conditions were terrible.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/andrew-and-grigg.jpgAndrew and GriggRiflemen Andrew and Grigg (center)—British troops from London—during the Christmas Truce with Saxons of the 104th and 106th Regiments of the Imperial German Army.2022-04-05T21:00:27+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/08/07/the-monster-of-glamis/2012-03-07T16:35:42+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/07/18/kipper-und-wipper-rogue-traders-rogue-princes-rogue-nuns-and-the-german-financial-meltdown-of-1621-23/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/albrecht_von_wallenstein.jpgalbrecht_von_wallensteinAlbrecht Von Wallenstein: not just a tough guy for tough times, but also the coiner of grossly debased coinage on an industrial scale.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gresham.jpgGreshamhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/t_o_3552_2.jpgT_O_3552_2A German coin of the kipper- und wipper era. Note evidence of clipping on the bottom right.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/inflation-1923-219x300.jpginflation-1923-219x300Cheap fuel. A German woman fires her boiler with wads of billion mark notes, autumn 1923.https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/kipper_und_wipper.jpgKipper_und_Wipper2012-04-03T15:17:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/08/04/the-last-of-the-cornish-packmen/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/henrymayhew.pngHenrymayhewHenry Mayhew. A pioneering journalist, Mayhew is best remembered as author of the irreplaceable and invaluable London Labour and the London Poor, a four-volume oral history of the mid-Victorian working classes. https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/elis-the-pedlar.jpgElis the pedlarElis the pedlar, a Welsh packman working the villages around Llanfair in about 1885. John Thomas Collection, National Library of Wales2015-01-06T06:04:59+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2011/01/07/hey-i-won/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/1oscars-gal-gwyneth-paltrow.jpg1oscars-gal-gwyneth-paltrowGwynnie dampens the stage2011-12-04T23:26:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/04/08/the-ghost-ship-and-the-president/2011-03-19T13:57:44+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.com/2010/04/02/hello-world/https://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mike-dash-web-quality-3.jpgMike Dashhttps://mikedashhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mike-dash.jpgMike Dash2011-07-16T02:56:41+00:00monthlyhttps://mikedashhistory.comdaily1.02026-03-31T20:58:11+00:00