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One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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“I didn’t think. I had no reference point. I had no fear. It was all really simple. Peter Jones of the Record Mirror told me to go and see them. I did. It was good for everybody… I was quite happy doing PR and I became happier managing the Rolling Stones.” – Andrew Loog Oldham … Continue reading "An Interview with Andrew Loog Oldham" The post An Interview with Andrew Loog Oldham appeared first on Flashbak.
Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague JamesHoare Thu, 05/15/2025 - 08:59
Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by literary historians for his famous Dictionary. This dictionary, formally known as A Dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755 and apparently made him worthy of becoming known widely—unofficially—as Doctor Johnson. […]
The final years of the Han Dynasty witnessed the emergence of powerful warlords who consolidated into three major powers at the formal dissolution of the Han Dynasty in 220 CE: Cao Wei in the north, Eastern Wu in the southeast, and Shu Han in the southwest. Shortly after vanquishing Shu, Cao Wei was overthrown […]
