If you were to believe the lying narrative of ignorant BLM goons, slavery was only ever perpetrated by white people, against black. This is a lie, of course. In fact, white people have every reason to be proud of their ancestors and the fight they lead to stamp out the
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. It certainly does seem at times in New Zealand history, that the North Island and the South Island really have very little in common
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
I was recently struck by a young graduate who told me that in all her years at school and at university, where she gained a Master’s degree, no less, she had never been introduced to the subject known to slightly older folk as History. Her revelation was in response
Queen Elizabeth II started it, when she dubbed 1992 her “annus horribilis”, and it’s reached its popular zenith in 2020: the modern tendency to declare the “worst. Year. Ever.” But the Wuhan plague, or more recent calamities from fire and flood to the Global Financial Crisis can’t hold
One of the more remarkable facts about the thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) is just how little we actually know about them. Already extinct on the Australian mainland, the species vanished in little over a century after the arrival of Europeans in Tasmania. Although hunting was previously blamed for its extinction, it
Don’t throw away your winter woollies just yet. Contrary to the gibberings of the Krazy Klimate Kult, the climate threat that humans may have to deal with in the coming decades is not global warming at all. Instead, the opposite may well be nipping at our collective noses. In
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You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. The Southland Provincial Council (Invercargill), wants to build railways north from Invercargill to Winton, and south from Invercargill to Bluff, to service the gold
I am not going to mention the current C-word. You can do your own comparisons, particularly with the figures for the 1957 Asian Flu as European countries are now down to single-figure daily deaths and the Unites States figures are declining as expected. The information here comes from
Although the British Army would have it otherwise, it’s well-known in my home town that the first shots fired in both World Wars were fired from the fort at Queenscliff, guarding the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. “Victoria’s Gibraltar” was built to defend the Bay and its
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. So an elected township official could also be elected to the provincial House of Representatives, and then also elected to the national House of
Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
It should be no surprise that there are no contemporary portraits of Jesus. After all, until the Middle Ages, portraits were relatively rare and even less often realistic likenesses – with the exception, perhaps, of the Greeks and Romans, who were apt to accurately portray Socrates’ famous ugliness, or Julius’ receding
