Only in the last decade has the extent of US support for Great Britain in the Falklands War of 1982 emerged. Dwayne Day examines new evidence of that support in the form of reconnaissance satellite imagery of the Falklands as the war neared its conclusion.
Monday, November 4, 2024
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4886/1
The bog people and the preserved citizens of Pompeii are the witnesses to history that fascinate me the most.
Landshark!
I had a false memory that Herbert Hoover was involved in the first US Army coast-to-coast truck convoy trial, but of course it was Dwight Eisenhower. (Which is why it’s the Eisenhower Interstate System, doh!)
However, there was another Hoover related to that history.
This is more about how traditions are somewhat invented and the dynamics of myths.
Which is why I didn’t put it in the food thread.
You could probably do a similar article about a lot of regional cuisines. Chinese and Mexican for sure. I don’t think it means those cuisines “don’t exist” though. And really, it doesn’t sound like that’s his argument. It’s just a rage-baity book title designed to grab people’s attention. And it probably works.
I have an Italian friend, well acquaintance at this point, who is a narcissist and contrarian, so as you can imagine he is very invested in Alberto Grandi’s narrative. As in, he has met him and translated stuff for him I think.
Based on this experience I always think of Grandi himself as a contrarian. What he tells people isn’t really new info, it’s just presented in a way to maximally antagonise the traditional Italian narrative. In a way the food narrative in Italy (and in France) is a bit too self-important and dismissive of other cuisines and could use a bit of deflating but I don’t think this is the way.
Weird flex:
L. Ron Hubbard claimed that he had served on Edsall during World War II and that, following her sinking, he swam to shore and remained in the jungle as the ship’s sole survivor.
Which is of course utter bollocks and just one of the bad stories that asshole came up with.
Briefly featured here (video is cued):
Very intersting. I was once told that similarly, the majority of Italian ice cream parlours in Germany were founded by people from two certain valleys in the Dolomites, val di Zoldo and val di Cadore.
What? Is he saying Aeneas didn’t invent pizza?
This and the previous post jogged a memory about the Landsknecht. What with their hugenormous codpieces and whatnot
As part of:
Seems to close on 2025-03-02.
Ah thanks, I’d love to see this exhibition but probably won’t make it to London anytime soon.
For those who do, and dare I say, they should avoid flying and come by train - the British Library is just a quick stroll from King’s Cross and St Pancras (the latter the Eurostar terminal), and a visit to the “Treasures Gallery” is a very nice way to spend some buffer time when arriving or leaving by Eurostar.
Putin is trying very hard to bring back Stalinism without even the fig leaf of communism.
Nah, he wants to be the Tsar of all the Russias.
