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Below is an e-mail I received from a person from Smolensk, Russia. Please feel free to comment. My childhood memories of the 19th century. Hello, friends. I always knew that something was wrong with the 19th century. But I did not tell anyone about it, but simply looked for information. I...

The scaffolding is mounted on top of the column for the assembly of the statue. The workers and foremen pose on the scaffolding on which is fixed the sign "E DUPREZ / carpenter". Ropes hang from the top of the column. Another sign is fixed at the bottom of the column, near a ladder: "E. DUPREZ /...

Ran into this rather entertaining book. The author was pretty creative, and something tells me that he was pretty clever as well. I think there is some allegorical meaning hidden between, or may be even in the lines. Unfortunately, I’m too dumb to figure it out. Please share your opinion on...

The Puzzle To be honest, with every day that passes, I realize that I understand the mechanism used to fake our history less and less. I am well past the point when I thought that a simple manipulation could be the answer to historical shenanigans. I still don't know if some sort of a matrix...

I understand that people change with age. Napoleon died when he was 51 years old. You be the judge of this particular aging. On the other hand, his life was pretty stressful, so... who knows? NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 I have my Napoleon related doubts. Granted, there are...

I happened to stumble upon an interesting 1813 publication, and wanted to share it with the blog readers. It's about a column made of French cannons seized during the war of 1812. Russians were planning on erecting this column in 1813 in Moscow. According to what we know, this project did not...

The Battle of Borodino was a battle fought on 7 September 1812 in the Napoleonic Wars during the French invasion of Russia. The fighting involved around 250,000 troops and left at least 70,000 casualties, making Borodino the deadliest day of the Napoleonic Wars. I find it interesting that in...

Napoleon died (on the island of Saint Helena off the coast of Africa ) in 1821, most likely (lol, sure) of stomach cancer, and in 1840 his body was returned to Paris, where it was interred in the Hotel des Invalides. With regard to the below article, who, or what do you think was being...

TARTARY "Tartary, a vast country in the northern parts of Asia, bounded by Siberia on the north and west: this is called Great Tartary. The Tartars who lie south of Muscovy and Siberia, are those of Astracan, Circassia, and Dagistan, situated north-west of the Caspian-sea; the Calmuc Tartars...