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April 24, 2024 · 1:21 am

The Magpies Cricket Club in British Ceylon: An Exclusive & Peculiar Enclave

Michael Roberts MAGPIES_FLG_CRICKET_1923 I came across this unusual photograph in loose-leaf form amidst my files and lata pata in my study.  David Sansoni in Sydney has rendered it more presentable, while Mevan Pieris has provided me with critical information on … Continue reading →

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February 13, 2026 · 12:23 am

The Coffee Poets of 16th-Century Islam

Nizar F. Hermes, in History Today, Volume 76 Issue 2 February 2026 The early modern Islamic world was embroiled in a bitter controversy over coffee. Much ink was spilt by poets on both sides. Ottoman coffeehouse scene, c.1620. Chester Beatty … Continue reading →

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April 24, 2025 · 8:00 pm

The Fort of Galle via WIKIPEDIA: An Incisive History

A NOTE by Michael Roberts, April 2025 I came into this our world in 1938 within the Galle Fort and lived fruitfully therein till circa 1959. It is an intimate and deeply entrenched part of my memories. Despite such a … Continue reading →

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August 29, 2025 · 5:33 pm

YEMEN: Yesterday & Today

Compilation by Group Captain Kumar Kirinde,  SLAF retd … with some illustrationsin the  original missing A historical nation that was divided between two empires in the 19th century that became two independent nations in the 20th century which united as … Continue reading →

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April 24, 2024 · 2:56 am

Ironies in the Metaphors of Anzac Cove in Australian Lore

Richard Koenigsberg plus …. Addressing the practices of remembrance in Australia, Richard Koenigsberg has noted the irony that a battlefield defeat at Gallipoli in World War One, 1915, served a people as an emblem of nationhood: the “Australian nation, came into being … Continue reading →

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May 9, 2025 · 1:23 am

World War I Memorial Facing Galle Fort

Michael Roberts Born and bred within the Fort of Galle, I passed the War Memorial on the way to St Aloysius college in Kaluwella every day and thence in the evening for sport at the Galle Esplanade in front of … Continue reading →

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November 17, 2025 · 6:59 pm

The Battle For An Archaic Fort in Jaffna in 1990 During the LTTE Insurgency

Gamini Goonetilleke, in JAFFNAMONITOR …. https://www.jaffnamonitor.com/inside-the-siege-a-sinhala-doctors-account-of-jaffna-fort-1990/ The first mortar shell screamed just after dawn on 10 June 1990. It tore through the coral-stone ramparts of Jaffna Fort, the blast rattling every window in the city. Inside the pentagonal walls, 130 … Continue reading →

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July 8, 2026 · 6:51 pm

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima …. Wikipedia

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima …. from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōjima no Seijōki) is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle … Continue reading →

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April 19, 2024 · 8:55 pm

Roman Szechowycz: A Discerning Eye for Past & Present in the Gal Oya’s History

This is a presentation of an article entitled “The “Rock River” Story” by Roman W. Szechowycz in the Loris Magazine, Vol. 8 No. 6  December, 1960. Page 348. Its presentation here has been made feasible by my Aloysian pal KK … Continue reading →

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January 9, 2026 · 5:56 pm

Dissident Devananda’s Work During the Eelam Wars

Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, 7 January 2026 where the title reads thus “EPDP’s Devananda and missing weapon supplied by Army”  March 15, 2009: Social Services and Social Welfare Minister and Chairman of Special Task Committee, Northern Province, Douglas Devananda … Continue reading →

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