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    1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)

    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020
    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020

    I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

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    Where Mongolians fought to the last man

    by Mike Pole March 17, 2018
    by Mike Pole March 17, 2018

    “Would you like to see a Museum?” We were in one of the most remote parts of Mongolia – and I wondered …

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    ‘Woman with nails in both sides of skull’ – the Nanjing Massacre Memorial

    by Mike Pole September 23, 2017
    by Mike Pole September 23, 2017

    Arguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …

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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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    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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    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
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