EXPO TIDBITS PART 1
IT TURNS OUT I’VE VISITED SEVERAL WORLD EXPOSITIONS (or their sites) as well as written about some others. What with our Semiquincentennial coming soon, this seems a good time to … Continue reading
THE LOST WORLD PART 2
YESTERDAY’S The Lost World silent movie discussion got us appreciating stop-motion animation and also a dish named Bessie Love, appropriately named portraying the flick’s love interest. Today in Part 2, … Continue reading
THE LOST WORLD 1925 PART 1
I HAVE LONG ADMIRED ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, literary agent for Sherlock Holmes and, it can be noted, for another notable as well: Brigadier Gerard. Indeed, you may recognize Conan Doyle … Continue reading
A PECAN CAPER
I AM BY BIRTH AN OHIOAN, sorta east of the Midwest and westward of true Easterners. This also dictates my way of speech. Indeed, I confess that as a kid … Continue reading
THANKSGIVING DINNER WITH AN ADDLED UNCLE
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOURS. And, alas, my heart goes out to those of you having to put up with an addled uncle during these family festivities. You recognize … Continue reading
TRUMP, THE BBC, AND MY EYES AND EARS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE CITED TRUMP’S PLAN to sue BBC over its documentary “Panorama—Trump a Second Chance.” Today in Part 2 we continue with tidbits gleaned from Wikipedia’s Timeline of January 6, … Continue reading
TRUMP, THE BBC, AND MY EYES AND EARS PART 1
I REMEMBER JANUARY 6, 2020, ALL TOO WELL. Wikipedia describes it in a “Timeline of the January 6 United States Capitol Attack.” Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and … Continue reading
LET’S CELEBRATE WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE’S LURLINE
WILLIAM VINCENT WALLACE’S OPERA LURLINE is about the Lorelei, and his life is every bit as adventurous as this legend of the Rhine seductress. I learned about Wallace from Una … Continue reading
WILLIAM DAVENANT—SHAKESPEARE’S SON?? PART 2
YESTERDAY WE INTRODUCED WILLIAM DAVENANT, English playwright spanning a particularly complex period of that country’s history encompassing regicide, civil war, and a real piece of work in Lord Protector Cromwell. … Continue reading
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT—SHAKESPEARE’S SON?? PART 1
ROMANTIC THEORIES HAVE SPICED UP HISTORY: Caesar and Mark Anthony both slept with Cleopatra (true, albeit separately). Sir William Davenant was William Shakespeare’s illegitimate son (might this explain Anne Hathaway’s … Continue reading
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