Category Archives: History

From Mark Twain to Barack Obama

Posted on April 11, 2014 by odeboyz
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Winter cold.

Posted on April 3, 2014 by odeboyz

When the coalmen came to deliver two or three cwt. of coal from their horse drawn cart. Mum and me would hear them coming down the street, and by the time they got to our house, one would have flipped … Continue reading →

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Drug Laws: an echo of fascism

Posted on March 28, 2014 by odeboyz

Mao Zedong, North Korea’s Kim dynasty, Hitler and Stalin attempted to control individual choices using the finest 20th Century techniques. Their ferocious efforts led to millions of deaths. They made every attempt to eradicate their enemies, all their enemies! And … Continue reading →

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The End of the Great European Peace, 1914

Posted on February 14, 2014 by odeboyz

The Great European Peace* began and ended with German military action. German Unification (1871) followed, as planned, from crushing victories; leading again, as planned by Bismarck, to peace. Forty- three years of European peace and an entire generation of German … Continue reading →

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Harold Hill history.

Posted on January 17, 2014 by odeboyz

True stories to my granddaughter Kay. Hi Kay, as with most things, the most tenuous threads of fate pull together in forming both a personal as well as an interactive history of me with others and others with me.  So … Continue reading →

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Biography of Private Nobody

Posted on January 14, 2014 by odeboyz

Born painlessly Lived harmoniously Died pointlessly.

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The Guilty German Generals of 1914

Posted on January 3, 2014 by odeboyz

Imperial Germany was born in 1871. Germany was created by strutting militarism. Unlike most countries where wars are caused by failed diplomacy, poor calculation or vaulting ambition Germany caused the First World War because its government feared their generals. The … Continue reading →

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