In the first three paragraphs, John Ruskin is describing his 1849 visit to the Grande Chartreuse. This is the head-monastery of the Carthusian (Catholic) monastic
Tag: France
Franco-British Exhibition (1908) – ‘White’ City Indeed…
I was looking through an attic recently, and I came across this old postcard preserved in a plastic wallet and dated to Edward VII. The
Royal Mint: British D-Day Commemorative 50 Pence Piece (1994)
Today, a padded envelope arrived containing ‘five’ 50 pence pieces (or ‘coins’) commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British D-Day Landings at Caen and Normandy.
Torquay: WWII D-Day Memorial – We Remember the Allied Soldiers (17.4.2019)
This was when the US Government fought on the rightside of history – as an ally of the Soviet Union! We respect everyone who fought against fascism with us during that terrible war! It is a sobering thought that many of these brave young men never returned alive. They fought and died for our freedom not to live under fascism! How different things are today, with the US Government supporting Zionist Israel and Neo-Nazism in the Ukraine!
Lost History of the Russian Civil War USSR: How Chinese Labourers Helped Lenin [1917-1922]! (8.10.2018)
‘Sun Yat-Sen is a revolutionary democrat. The East has finally struck the path of the West… new hundred and hundreds of millions of people will henceforth take part in the struggle for the ideals which the West has worked out.’ (Lenin: 1912)
Leon Blum’s Anti-Soviet ‘Socialism’
Leon Blum (1872-1950) was a prominent leftwing politician in France, who occupied a number of important political posts over a number of decades. He described
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 