Home
17th Century Polish Coin Hoard found by Metal Detectorist
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 242
Exactly what it says. A clay jug from the 17th Century filled with copper coinage of the era. Unfortunately Archaeologists had to be called in because metal detecting relics in Poland is illegal.
Which means - a lot of finds go undiscovered or unreported.
Link: https://www.livescience.com/17th-century-century-hoard-brimming-with-1000-coins-discovered-in-poland
The Vindelev Hoard
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
- Hits: 254
A 1 Kg gold hoard containing the oldest know reference to "Odin", unearthed in Vindelev, Western Denmark in 2020. Approximately 1500 Years old.
Read more here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/08/oldest-known-reference-to-norse-god-odin-found-in-danish-treasure-trove
The Atlantis Bookshop
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Places
- Hits: 382
Stumbled across this, probably good that I didn't know about it while I lived there...
Link: The Atlantis Bookshop
On this side of the world there's always
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiser_Antiquarian_Books
Frankly there's nothing better than a used bookstore or old curiosity shop, and to find a bookstore that specializes in my more esoteric/preposterous beliefs and reading is - well, I'd be there far too much I'm sure.
There are plenty more, but I'll let you discover them on your own.
RRR
- Details
- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
- Hits: 280
Saw this on NetFlix, gave it a try and was pleasantly surprised. Hindi/Bollywood, India under the British Raj and and the British are portrayed much as they like to portray the Nazis, basically the same, and - really, English Colonialism was every bit as savage as French, Belgian, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish Colonialism. So they're not far off.
It's about 10 X better written than any American film, with a lot more depth, nuance and complexities to the plot. That's not to say it has a lot, just more. And it's nice to see cultures represent their own history - as opposed to us doing it. Even if it's clearly a ridiculously over-the-top fiction. The dancing was fun, the jumping with the tigers and torches, brilliant, I mean - Hollywood's problem is that they feed us utter rubbish - Marvel Movies, for example - and they try to keep it a bit "Grounded" by slight attention to the laws of gravity and such, this - they don't fucking care. Turn it up to 11...no, no, 12...fuck it, all the way up to 100!!!! Nobodies supposed to believe it, just be amused.
Anyways, I've had a few Bollywood movies on my list and now I'm inspired to try and see a few more...
Page 96 of 1018