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Month: January 2019

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Three

21st January 2019 Tom Pudding 0

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 0

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 0

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 Philthetestmanager 0

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 0

> 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 0

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…]

Hobbies

The Basel Problem

14th January 2019 OldTrout 0

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 0

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 0

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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