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    Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey

    by Mike Pole October 7, 2017
    by Mike Pole October 7, 2017

    ‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …

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    The Log Cabin at the Heart of St Petersburg, Russia

    by Mike Pole December 20, 2016
    by Mike Pole December 20, 2016

    The most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …

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    The Day I Walked Around the Roman Empire

    by Mike Pole October 13, 2016
    by Mike Pole October 13, 2016

    When Emperor Constantine woke up on May 28, 1453, it would have been to the depressing thought that it was likely his last …

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    Turkey/Armenia: Ani – capital on the wrong side of a border

    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 9, 2016

    I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …

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    (Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig

    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015
    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015

    It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …

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    Thinking Outside the Triangle – Polynesian Origins

    by Mike Pole May 16, 2015
    by Mike Pole May 16, 2015

    New Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …

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    Pacifism in New Zealand: A Ruined Life?

    by Mike Pole April 19, 2014
    by Mike Pole April 19, 2014

    Back in the days when Australia had just seven veterans left from the First World War, I made an effort to meet …

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    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
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