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Covid Feds at your door? Read on!
When I heard and read that out of pure caring and love of the American people, yes, even us Trumpites, Biden had authorized federal staff to go door to door to persuade you to have [more…]
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My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly
My Legends of Pop Music – Part One – Buddy Holly I suppose we must define pop music; I would agree with one view from Wiki which says it is a genre of popular music [more…]
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Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part Two
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1999
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1999 Featured Album: The Party Album – Vengaboys This is the last in a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on [more…]
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Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Part One
My uncle was a staff reporter for the Manchester Evening News from the late 1940s until his death in 1973. The following is from a series of articles in which he describes his extensive visit [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998 Featured Album: Life Thru a lens – Robbie Williams This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that [more…]
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Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike
There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]
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The Desert War – June 1941
And so to June, the first anniversary of the Desert War and it was a hot month in more ways than one in Libya and Egypt. There is also a small report on East Africa [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997 Featured Album: Van Morrison – The Healing Game This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much [more…]