Stories about History from April, 2008
Belgium: The Balkan Presence
Tanchi is guest-blogging at Kosmopolit about the Balkan presence in Brussels.
Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela: Archaeological Find
Caribbean Beat Blog reveals that on the island of Cubagua, situated between Venezuela's northeastern shoreline and the resort island of Margarita, “researchers reportedly have found archaelogical traces of three distinct...
Iran:Ahmadinejad and his new illusion
Jomhour says[Fa] that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President, called 11 September attacks a “suspicious event”. Ahmadinejad says the name of victims never got announced!The blogger writes it is a new illusion...
Macau: Social issues behind death penalty in China
Leocardo [pt] comments on this week's Amnesty International's report that ranked China the first in the world in the number of executions in 2007 (470), followed by Iran (317), Saudi...
Uruguay: 365 versions of La Cumparsita
Three hundred and sixty five versions of one of the most famous tangoes in the world, La Cumparsita, will be played in Independence Plaza in Montevideo, which is the site...
Pakistan: Through Choudhry's Lens
All Things Pakistan introduces a series on rare photographs by F.E Choudhry.
Jamaica, Guyana, U.S.A.: Virginia Tech Remembered
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp links to Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar's poem for Virginia Tech on the one-year anniversary of the shootings.
Vietnam: Hung King memorial Day
Blogger Faster than the Fastest has a question: “Every Vietnamese know that we have 18 Hung Kings during the 4000-year long history, why there is only one day to memorize...
Haiti: Reasons for Riots
The Haitian Blogger says that “amid food riots in Haiti, US claims of ‘success’ in Haiti sound hollow.”
Cuba: New Freedoms
Blogging from Havana, Circles Robinson Online writes about Cuba's “new freedoms”.
Bahrain: Jews Remember Al Nakba
Bint Battuta in Bahrain links to Palestine Remembered and No Time to Celebrate – Jews Remember Al Nakba (Catastrophe), which draw attention to the plight of Palestinians since the establishment...
Russia: Yuri Gagarin
Soviet Russia posts commemorative videos of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
Lebanon: Commemorating the Civil War
April 13 marked the 33rd anniversary of the beginning of the Lebanese civil war which ended, officially, in 1990. Lebanese, who are anxious that the violence may be renewed any time, commemorated the occasion with events to raise awareness against it. Bloggers too wrote about the war from different angles as usual; some with lengthy analysis of what caused it and others with reports on some of the anti–war activities, writes Moussa Bashir, who brings us blogger reactions.
India: History Carnival
varnam presents the fourth Indian History Carnival – a collection of posts related to Indian history and archeology.
India: Postcards and Sugar
An accidental brush with a postcard from 1940 sends Windy Skies on a quest for sugar and other memories.
Syria: 60 years after Deir Yasin
“As Israel prepares to celebrate its sixtieth anniversary, and as Palestinians reach sixty years of dispossession, we must honor the memory of those who perished in the savage butchery that...
Kosovo: The Army Challenge
Balkan Baby writes about the challenges of creating Kosovo's new army: “It is hard, in fact impossible, to imagine any of North Mitrovica’s angry and bitter Serb residents, those who...
Poland: Krakow; Warsaw
Polandian compares Krakow‘s past with its present; the beatroot writes about a survey that found Warsaw the third most boring city of Europe.
Serbia: New Belgrade
“New Belgrade” – regarded by many “as a giant sleeping dorm” – turns 60, Belgrade 2.0 reports and posts some pictures and video.
Serbia, Kosovo: War Reporting
From the Frontline posts a story of how a cell phone and a roll of Deutschmarks saved a reporter's life in the village of Prekaz, Kosovo.
Russia: Grozny Photos
Six photos from Grozny, Chechnya, by LJ user remetalk (award-winning photographer Sergei Maximishin, www.maximishin.com.
