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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1988
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1988 Featured Album: Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1987
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1987 Featured Album: Deacon Blue – Raintown This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select [more…]
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The Desert War – April 1941
April was a very busy month 80 years ago, Libya, Greece, Iraq and East Africa were all full of action. On the 1st, just as Rommel began his attack, there was a coup d’état in [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1986
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1986 Featured Album: Paul Simon – Graceland This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will select [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1985
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1985 Featured Album: Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I [more…]
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A History of Pop Music Albums – 1984
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1984 Featured Album: Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to whatever year we end up in. I will [more…]
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Jinnie’s Story, Chapter Eleven
Willie dropped Jinnie off a few hundred metres from the apartment. A quick glance at her watch told her that it was nearly 01:30. Despite the fact, she had dressed warm as had been suggested, [more…]
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A Kinder, Gentler Nazism?
Their neighbours in the luxury apartment block on the swanky Prinzregentenplatz in Munich knew that the couple in Flat 16 had a volatile relationship. What was less clear was the nature of that relationship. He [more…]
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“Not Yet”…George Will on Churchillian Realism
On March 5th, the conservative columnist George F. Will gave the 34th Enid and R. Crosby Kemper Lecture at the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” speech at Westminster College [more…]