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As mentioned elsewhere, I spend some time on family history research. As a child of the WWII years I am also recording my experiences of those years. This has become more of a 'Life Story', an...
Today, 6th of January marks Epihany. The day that the Wisemen, or Magi, arrived at the end of their journey in Bethleham to find the new babe - the Christ child.
According to the news-
“A university has scrapped the term 'trigger warning' because it fears its use alone could upset snowflake students.Warwick University has deemed the phrase too 'provocative'...
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Or it could be because it belittles a section of manual workers who sweep the streets, by association with a disgustingly portrayed man with learning difficulties on the TV!
It took me a while to...
Legendary thriller writer Wilbur Smith dies 'unexpectedly' at home in Cape Town aged 88 having spent the morning reading and writing with his wife Niso
Don't ask why, I first became enraptured by Sherlock Holmes and the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I know as much about them as I do about James Bond and Lt Cdr Ian Lancaster Fleming.
A Scotsman with...
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Look up how many times MI6 have been sued.
Shows you what a bunch of self entitled tossers they really are.
Here is a big and positive post on tourism – sort of.
I assume that those who support Egyptian tourism know one thing. What is the tourist guide to an Egyptian city which is...
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I am not sure about your question, but I think I know what your are talking about. I have been studying many traveling company and already know their best real-life practices. When I travelled to...
I received this book about nightlife in the roaring 20's in Cairo a month ago.
Quite interesting as the now closed Windsor hotel is just around the corner from emad al-din street in Ezbekiyya.
8)
Holidaying in egypt for many months of the year I always missed the feel, the fun, the smell of a newspaper.
Here I read local rags and always Saturday's Grauniad.
20 odd years ago reading a local...
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So, I wasn't wrong about India..
I often get asked when am I returning to Egypt ?
I mean... 47 covid cases on one plane/sardine can from Delhi,
let's face it, think about all those poor refugee...
The weather in the window this morning
is snow, unseasonal singular flakes,
a slow winter’s final shiver. On such an occasion
to presume to eulogise one...
I have now been procrastinating for nearly 12 months, it will be 1 year on 1st February since returning
from Luxor, and will probably be another 12 months...
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Probably better to write the autobiography and call it a novel, :tk .. Save all the lawsuits, and keep the Rozzers from your door...... 8)
All characters and events portrayed in this autobiography...
Sherlock Holmes and the true-life triumph: Framed for sickening crimes, a young Indian turned to the creator of literature's greatest detective. The result? A tale as enthralling as any Conan Doyle...
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What a great article! Thanks for posting the link, Hatusu!
Or better known as lobsang rampa..
Even His Holiness The Dalai Lama had it, who didn't way back then ?
Came across this interesting article in today's travel section of the Gruaniad...
Loeb of Harvard is the greatest translator and publisher of the broadest range of written works of the classical period. Homer and Hesiod from the 7th or 8th century BC are the obvious but they have...
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Positive Initiatives
Alexandria is important and not for the reasons you might guess. Its humidity and pollution mean that parchment, papyrus and vellum won’t last. The water table and the salt in...
I wish I could say something better about this book on an important issue.
It’s the history of the British East India Company (India, starvations, opium and wars) and tries to draw a comparison...
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Many thanks Hafiz!
I’ve been looking for something meaty as kindle reading for my forthcoming trip to Egypt and this will do nicely. I’ve always found the 18th-19th century history of India...
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