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Saturday, December 3, 2016

Photos to surprise and amaze

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‘I want to make photos such as I’ve never made before, ones that are life itself and the most genuine life, photos that are simple and compl...

I know my own death

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‘I feel that I know my own death, and have known it tor a long time. I feel that I died long ago, the same death I shall die later on. When ...

McClellan’s war in Mexico

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George Brinton McClellan, a soldier who played a key role in the American Civil War rising to the rank of major general before falling out w...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

From playboy to ascetic

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Charles de Foucauld, a wealthy playboy who turned to god and then became a monk living like a hermit among the Tuareg people of the Sahara d...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Lord and Lady Cavendish

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Frederick Charles Cavendish, an English politician and protege of William Gladstone, was born 180 years ago today. He was brutally murdered ...
Monday, November 21, 2016

For one’s great-grandson

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‘Feeling much better. I do a Spectator article on keeping diaries, in which I lay down the rule that one should write one’s diary for one’s...
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