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Re: This Day in History
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:04 pm
by BjornP
Fifty years today:
Soviet Union and five of the Warsazw Pact countries, invade Czechoslovakia on August 20th 1968, as a response to the country's attempts to start a gradual liberalization process of loosening the restraints on the free press and other forms of free speech as well as opening up for more democratization. The attempted reforms was known as The Prague Spring.
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:51 am
by C-Mag
BjornP wrote: Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:04 pm
Fifty years today:
Soviet Union and five of the Warsazw Pact countries, invade Czechoslovakia on August 20th 1968, as a response to the country's attempts to start a gradual liberalization process of loosening the restraints on the free press and other forms of free speech as well as opening up for more democratization. The attempted reforms was known as The Prague Spring.
It only took them another 20 years +/- to realize it.
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:53 am
by C-Mag
65 years ago + a few days, the CIA ran Operation Ajax which carried out a coup in Iran that destabilized the county by overthrowing the country’s democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, and installed a CIA groomed dictator.
Yeah, I should trust John Brennan.
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 11:42 am
by SuburbanFarmer
It’s totally gonna work this time.
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:09 am
by Montegriffo
On this day 100 years ago Cecil Chubb gifted Stonehenge to the nation.
He had bought it at auction 3 years earlier narrowly beating a local farmer who may have removed the stones and ploughed it up.
Originally given to his wife Mary, who is believed to have been unhappy with the present, the couple gifted the monument to the nation.
Work was begun straight away to ''restore'' the stones, many of which had fallen over or were leaning dangerously.
his picture shows workers on the site in 1901 in a restoration which caused outrage at the time but which is rarely referred to in official guidebooks. For it means that Stonehenge, jewel in the crown of Britain’s heritage industry, is not all it seems. Much of what the ancient site’s millions of visitors see in fact dates back less than 50 years.
From 1901 to 1964, the majority of the stone circle was restored in a series of makeovers which have left it, in the words of one archaeologist, as ‘a product of the 20th century heritage industry’. But the information is markedly absent from the guidebooks and info-phones used by tourists at the site. Coming in the wake of the news that the nearby Avebury stone circle was almost totally rebuilt in the 1920s, the revelation about Stonehenge has caused embarrassment among archaeologists. English Heritage, the guardian of the monument, is to rewrite the official guide, which dismisses the Henge‘s recent history in a few words. Dave Batchelor, English Heritage’s senior archaeologist said he would personally rewrite the official guide. ‘The detail was dropped in the Sixties’, he admitted. ‘But times have changed and we now believe this is an important piece of the Stonehenge story and must be told’.
https://wikkorg.wordpress.com/2013/07/0 ... tonehenge/
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:58 am
by Speaker to Animals
Makes sense. It's just a twentieth century tourist trap. LOL
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:12 am
by Montegriffo
It's a good cash cow for English Heritage. Any profits made by the charity go into preservation of their 400+ sites.
That ring of old stones is keeping all our castles maintained.
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:27 am
by Speaker to Animals
Castles are probably from the 1920s too, honestly. LOL
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:26 am
by Montegriffo
Re: This Day in History
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:00 pm
by C-Mag
Yep, 80 years ago.
Filthy Colletivists celebrated by attacking Tucker Carlsons home.