Thursday, August 19, 2021

Day of disasters

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‘Sunny, spring-like day. Day of disasters. This morning I read the fax that Gemini Films sent me, in which they communicate me the changes ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Enjoy thy existence

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‘Another day, another revolution of light and shade. Enjoy thy existence, sayest thou, holy dawn of morning, animating glance of love, beam ...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Death of a bandit

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Walter Scott, one of Britain’s greatest writers and the first to gain international celebrity status, was born a quarter of a millennium ago...
Friday, August 6, 2021

He came to us starke naked

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‘As we were setting out early this morning by breake of day, we were overtaken by our Turke Merchant who was robbed of his 3 mules’ lading o...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Never to be forgotten

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Sidney George Fisher, described by Wikipedia as a Philadelphia gentleman, lawyer, farmer, plantation owner, political essayist and occasiona...
Friday, July 23, 2021

The loveliest dance

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Exactly 80 years ago today, the young Alathea Gwendoline Alys Mary, a constant companion to the young Lilibet, future queen of England, atte...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

I got his reprieve

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It is four centuries exactly since the birth of Anthony Ashley Cooper for whom the title Earl of Shaftesbury was created during the reign of...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The day was saved!

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‘At 3.15 it started to rain - C.C. in the depths, bemoaning his ill fortune - the long-anticipated inspection of the garden would be out of ...