The Historical Discussion Thread: All Discussion Pertaining to History is Welcome — Page 10

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ review – Peter Jackson’s electrifying journey into the first world war trenches…

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/16/they-shall-not-grow-old-review-first-world-war-peter-jackson?

^ with 1 minute video.

Really hope the BBC or other free national tv channel snaps this up and shows it soon.
 

‘On yer way, Pinochet! The factory workers who fought fascism from Glasgow’…

When Scots refused to service Chile’s jet fighters after the 1973 military coup, their protest all but grounded the air force – and may have saved prisoners’ lives. ‘Nae Pasaran’, a powerful documentary, tells their story

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/01/on-your-way-pinochet-factory-workers-fought-fascism-from-glasgow-chile-coup-nae-pasaran
 

‘‘A national emergency’: suicide rate spikes among young US veterans’…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/suicide-rate-young-us-veterans-jumps
 

& in the UK…

‘Ministry of Defence to study armed forces suicide rates after more than 40 servicemen and women kill themselves in last year’…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armed-forces-suicide-rates-mod-mental-health-problems-ministry-of-defence-tobias-ellwood-a8594776.html

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‘Falklands heroes were told they “lacked moral fibre” as they suffered with horrors of war’

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/falklands-heroes-were-told-lacked-11587195

^ I’ve posted this here as despite it be ‘current news’ - issues surrounding veterans care and their well-being after they leave the services dates back for a long time now historically - something that obviously wasn’t and still isn’t being addressed enough, either through funding - or adequate psychological, emotional and professional assistance - or just a helping hand.
 

'This map lets you see where your hometown was on the Earth millions of years ago’:-

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/30/us/map-hometown-earth-continental-drift-scn-trnd

 
'A California paleontologist has created an interactive map that allows people to see how far their hometowns have moved over 750 million years of continental drift.

Webster’s map visualization lets users enter their location and then plugs that location into plate tectonic models. The result is that users can see where towns and cities were located hundreds of millions of years ago.’
 

The link to the interactive map - https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#750
 

^ Some decent info from the various time-frames and ‘jump to…’ section too 👍
 

oojason said:

The link to the interactive map - https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#750

https://dinosaurpictures.org is an awesome site even without that cool interactive map. There is some great information on there for anyone interested in dinosaurs and the timelines and eras of them!

An 'on this day in history’ type thing that often gets overlooked…
 

Operation Sandblast

'Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world, executed by the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) in 1960 under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.

The circumnavigation took place between February 24 and April 25, 1960, covering 26,723 nautical miles (49,491 km; 30,752 mi) over 60 days and 21 hours. The route began and ended at the St. Peter and Paul Rocks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean near the Equator. During the voyage, Triton crossed the equator four times while maintaining an average speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). Triton’s overall navigational track during Operation Sandblast generally followed that of the Spanish expedition that achieved the first circumnavigation of the world, started under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and completed by Spanish explorer Juan Sebastián Elcano from 1519 to 1522.’
 

^ from Wikipedia article on the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast

a little more: www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a32009109/operation-sandblast-sumbarine-circumnavigation