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Cooktown and the Panjdeh crisis of 1885

Over on one of my other blogs I mention that there seems to be some confusion over the provenance of the Cooktown gun. The myth is that in 1885 the town council was worried about a Russian invasion an requested … Continue reading

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Other people’s history

History is a strange and slippery thing, full of truths, half-truths, and strange inexplicable seeming events. And so it is when you watch other people’s tv. Sometimes it turns out what you think you know isn’t quite true. For example, … Continue reading

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