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Interesting Lives

15th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 0

After happening upon some sad news at the breakfast table the other morning, I sighed, folded my newspaper and gazed wistfully out of the window across the frost-pinched meadows of my native Debatable Lands. Beyond [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1972

14th February 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Dr Hook and the Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when [more…]

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Elizabeth Bentley, Part Four

12th February 2025 well_chuffed 0

Elizabeth Bentley was another American born Soviet agent who turned against the Soviets. Whittaker Chambers became disillusioned with the Communists. Elizabeth was the woman scorned. She was the lover of Jacob Golos who ran quite [more…]

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Desert Mystery – Does Using AI Software Work?

5th February 2025 Going Postal 0

In my last series of articles (Desert Mystery – Letters from Afrika), I described what had happened to a German Afrika Korps driver, Hans Walden, during the WW2 Desert War through the translation of the [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1971

31st January 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song: Slade: Cuz I Love You 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 making it. [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1970

17th January 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

Featured song:  Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 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 [more…]

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Six

15th January 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part 5, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about being strafed by the American Airforce, visiting the theatre in Tunis and staying at the home of an [more…]

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Desert Mystery: “Letters from Afrika”, Part Five

8th January 2025 Going Postal 0

In Part Four, I described how Afrika Korps Obergefrieter, Hans Walden, had written to Hildegard Bronnold about suffering in a sandstorm, retreating back through Libya into Tunisia, and his hopes for Christmas 1942. In late [more…]

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A History of Pop Music – 1969

3rd January 2025 Phil the Ex Test Manager 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…]

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