Pokémon Go Craze Invades Museums, Memorials & Cemeteries
Pokémon Go is a certified phenomenon. It is the number one app on both the iPhone App Store and Google Play. In the game, players…
Touchy move of Soviet War Monuments by Poles
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), based in Warsaw, plans to move over 200 monuments originally set up by the Soviets after the end of…
The Real Monuments Men – Rescuing Priceless Artworks During And After WWII
The recent recovery of three priceless paintings, stolen from the villa of Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma in Camaiore by the Nazi’s in 1944, made a…
Poland Removing WWII Soviet Victory Monuments
The Poles have been removing memorials thanking the Soviet Union for liberating Poland from the Nazis, which were erected around the country after World War…
New Orleans Moves To Relocate Confederacy Monuments, Judge Rules: OK
The southern US city of New Orleans is planning to remove four historical Confederacy monuments that were originally built to commemorate the secessionist American states…
MAJOR & MRS HOLT’S BATTLEFIELD GUIDE TO YPRES SALIENT & PASSCHENDAELE – Review by Phil Hodges
What better way to review a book than on an actual road trip of the area? Excellent idea! Well, actually It proved to be tougher…
Public Offenders Could be Selected to Restore Surrey’s Monuments
Public offenders could be made to help clean up Redhill’s war memorial before the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War. The…
US Government Didn’t Have to Close the Monuments
In a recent release of public records, there is evidence that the Department of the Interior knew in advance that two groups of elderly veterans…
Austrian Journalist Claims Salt Miners Saved The Art Works And Not Clooney’s ‘Monuments Men’
According to an Austrian journalist whose book has just been published this week in Austria, the £5billion worth artworks were actually saved by a group…
Did the Nazis steal the Mona Lisa?
Over a century ago, Vincenzo Peruggia, an amateur Italian painter became responsible for the most famous act of theft. In 1911, Peruggia succeeded in stealing…