14-Oct-09 – History Links of the Day
by Jonathan on Oct.14, 2009, under Uncategorized
Mussolini takes his people shaken, tortured, intimidated and subservient to Germany, not stirred.
1) How did Italian dictator get his start? Funded by the British Secret Services of course – “The name’s Mussolini, Benito Mussolini”. (Link)
2) The Timesonline (UK) has determined the best 60 books of the past 60 years. Feel free to send your hate mail to them, not me. (Link)
3) A new portrait by Leonardo da Vinci has allegedly been identified through fingerprint recognition. This week on an all new CSI: Renaissance. (Link)
4) Michael Hirst, creator of “The Tudors” will be directing a movie on the Battle of Agincourt, 1415. Let’s hope for more “Braveheart” than “Pearl Harbour”. (Link)
ON THIS DAY IN 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis ignites when an American surveillance mission spotted Soviet missiles in Cuba. IT remains the closest we’ve ever come to WW3. (Link)
AND AS FOR THE LIGHTER SIDE: Cracked.com’s “7 “Eccentric” Geniuses That Were Just Plain Insane” – Pythagoras thought that beans were evil? Don’t we all? (Link)
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