Sunday, April 5, 2026

How Nobile was saved

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Born 130 years ago today, the Swede Einar Lundborg would become, for a brief moment in 1928, one of the most celebrated aviators in Europe -...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

The Galtee Boy

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The Galtee Boy, the Irish republican activist  John Sarsfield Casey , was born 180 years ago today. Imprisoned and then deported for his cri...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Everyone complains

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‘Everyone complains about the scarcity of food supplies, but all are firmly determined to hold out. The distribution of food must be still f...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

A disappointed man

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William Bagshaw Stevens, born 270 years go today, died laughing. But, in his relatively short life, he had been an ineffective headmaster of...
Sunday, March 8, 2026

Michaux in N. America

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André Michaux, a French botanist and explorer sent to North America in search of new species to replenish the forests of France, was born 28...
Friday, February 27, 2026

A most excellent person

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Today marks the 320th anniversary of the death of John Evelyn, a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys, who described him as a ‘most excel...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

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Today marks the 190th anniversary of the birth of Ramakrishna, the Bengali temple priest and religious teacher whose influence on modern Hin...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

No. 10 hostile to me

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‘TB said in ’97, no one must “we are masters now”. We must focus on our duty to serve - or something similar. The reality of his behaviour i...