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Month: January 2019

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Three

21st January 2019 Tom Pudding 3515 Comments

Introduction Although the flintlock ignition system was technically advanced for its time, it wasn’t without its shortcomings. Flintlocks require careful setting-up and constant maintenance and adjustment to be reliable. They also have a relatively slow [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 6

20th January 2019 Tachybaptus 3654 Comments

March 2nd, 1809. We are back in Portugal at last. It has been a circuitous journey across ridges and valleys, avoiding the French troops on the lower ground, but we have managed it without any [more…]

Arts

Postcard from Lille, Part 2

19th January 2019 Always Worth Saying 3073 Comments

First Class Previously I regularly visited the continent travelling by train, ferry and hovercraft. Subsequently I went via the channel tunnel but before the high speed rail link to St Pancras had been completed. After [more…]

20th Century

A History of Pop Music – 1969

18th January 2019 Phil the Ex Test Manager 3640 Comments

Featured song: The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped [more…]

Arts

Going Postal with Question Time

17th January 2019 Going Postal 2917 Comments

> Graphic EJ Fiona Bruce (remainer) presents debate from Derby, with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. She is joined by minister for justice with responsibility for prisons [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Two

14th January 2019 Tom Pudding 4379 Comments

In my introductory article we saw that by the beginning of the 19th century the flintlock was firmly established as the state-of-the-art means of ignition in military and sporting firearms. In this article, we will [more…]

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The Basel Problem

14th January 2019 OldTrout 5032 Comments

One sometimes gets very interesting results when one turns divergent sums upside down. The Basel problem was asked by Pietro Mengoli in . He asked what is the exact summation of the reciprocals of the [more…]

19th Century

A Bear’s Diary – Part 5

13th January 2019 Tachybaptus 3753 Comments

January 19th, 1809. Our return to Lisbon will not be like our march north. Then we were travelling with an army in good order on broad roads through a populated area near the coast. Now [more…]

Arts

Where have all the Post Offices gone?

13th January 2019 Going Postal 3740 Comments

According to Touchstone in ‘As You Like It’, the seventh form of lie is “…the lie direct” (Act V, Scene IV): our Politicians do not often use this form – for instance, the late and [more…]

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