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Dolaucolthi Gold Mines: An Edwardian Fool’s Gold Adventure

16 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree

This is the second of a series of short articles and accompanying mobile documentaries, in which I hope to introduce some of the historical facts and historical fictions, interwoven into the hidden gem that is the Dolaucothi Gold Mines. Now in the ca...

Trumpman's Treasury #13 - Greek Copper Coin Of King George, 10 Lepta (1882)

16 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments trumpman

Today's coin is part of the larger collection of old Greek coins I mentioned a couple days ago. Click here to read the story of how it ended up on my hands.  First some photos:   So, this little fella is made of copper, weights almost 9.62 g and w...

Trumpman's Treasury #12 - 1000 Kwacha Year Calendar Coin (2000)

14 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments trumpman

It's been a while since I posted something from my treasury, hasn't it?  So, today I have something intriguing. It's a coin that until very recently I thought was made of silver. It's shiny after all! But first, a little on how I got my hands on it....

ARCHAIC GREEK GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS: Monarchy, Oligarchy and Tyranny

12 Jul 2020 4 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Before the birth of democracy in Athens in the late sixth century BC, the Greek world - still a patchwork of small, independent city-states - still included old forms of governmental rule used throughout the ancient world; Monarchies, the rule of one...

HOMER, 8th century BC: Poetry of Archaic Greece 2

11 Jul 2020 16 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked

When it comes to Ancient Greek storytelling, there are perhaps no better known tales than that of Achilles and the ten-year Siege of Troy, written of extensively in the epic poem known as The Iliad, and the return journey from Troy to Ithaca by King...

Hitler's women - who were they?

11 Jul 2020 6 minute read 1 comment ilodz24hd

google translate Hitler's women is a very interesting chapter in Adolf's life. The more information he attempts to obtain on this subject, the more questions and riddles are born. Some sources suggest that the Chancellor of the Third Reich was gay, a...

HESIOD, c.750-650 BC: Poetry of Archaic Greece 1

10 Jul 2020 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Greece’s earliest surviving literacy is poetic; it was the 8th century BC that saw the advent of writing in a form we’d recognise today. The earliest, most influential and perhaps the most well known of ancient Greece's writing is that of the Epic, p...

ARCHAIC GREEK WRITING - Its Origins and its Influence

9 Jul 2020 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

Like nearly every civilisation in history, the Minoans and the Greek Mycenaeans communicated via the art of writing. Come the Bronze Age Collapse and the resulting Greek Dark Age, the art of writing is thought to have been lost for around three-hundr...

THE ARCHAIC AGE, 800 - 479 BC: Emergence of the City-State

8 Jul 2020 10 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked

The Bronze Age Collapse and the subsequent Greek Dark Ages threw the Greek world into a period of little communication, writing, knowledge and scientific advancements. What blossomed from it though was a Greek civilisation of many dialects, cultures...

Adolf Hitler - could he have been gay?

8 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ilodz24hd

translated by google translator Adolf Hitler - an ardent opponent of mixed race, anti-Semite, genocide, tyrant and a man who came to power only thanks to himself. Could he be a homosexual? Yes and no. Different sources - different versions, differen...