Monday, October 31, 2016

No escape for Houdini‘s diaries

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The great Harry Houdini, Handcuff King, illusionist and magician extraordinaire, died 90 years ago today, on Halloween - not from a failed t...
Friday, October 28, 2016

The sieges of Limerick

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‘This day also the French forces departed for Galway to the great satisfaction not only of the inhabitants, but of all the garrison that rem...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Virtuous William Lambarde

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Some 480 years ago today was born William Lambarde, a learned, virtuous, pious justice of the peace. He wrote several books, including one o...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

We must not budge

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‘On Jerusalem we must not budge. We have to quickly establish a large Jewish settlement there. The same with Hebron. The West Bank must not ...

The Nuremberg ten

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Seventy years ago today, on 16th October 1946, ten prominent members of the Nazi regime were executed by hanging in Nuremberg having been fo...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Bassompierre in London

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The dashing nobleman, François de Bassompierre, a one-time favourite of King Henry IV of France who later fell out with Cardinal Richelieu, ...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Walking on thin ice

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Happy birthday David Kim Hempleman-Adams, 60 today and still on board Northabout , in the final stages of his voyage to circumnavigate the N...

The poet’s destiny

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‘ The power of Poetry alone redeems the world, and reunites the blind, confused and fragmentary elements of universal experience within the ...