Saturday, 31 March 2018

From one village to the next you change language

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That's in Russia! I had to look it up in an atlas. Not far from the Baltic Sea. There are several small countries in those parts: Eston...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

The dream is over. It's just the same, only I'm thirty, and a lot of people have got long hair

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I don't know about the "history"; the people who are in control and in power, and the class system and the whole bullshit bou...
Thursday, 15 March 2018

I must render an account to a Lord who in his goodness does not count in farthings

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Over the next two weeks he grew progressively worse. During one of his visits, Bernini's nephew, an Oratorian priest, Father Filippo (D...
Friday, 9 March 2018

To Europe Byzantium is a symbol of its honour

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The realm of the last Roman Emperor is only the size of a plate, merely a gigantic circular wall surrounding churches, the palace and a tan...

Men like Scott have featured hundreds of times in British history

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Men like Scott have featured hundreds of times in British history, conquering India and nameless islands in the East Indian archipelago, co...
Friday, 2 March 2018

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining

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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigra...
Tuesday, 13 February 2018

An area within which the Lieutenant of the Tower of London could muster a militia

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The name Tower Hamlets sounds as if it is a modern construct, chosen to bind together a number of former councils into a new one in 1965. I...