A TASTE OF LONDON’S ORANGES AND LEMONS PART 2
WE’VE ALMOST COMPLETED the first half of our visits to London’s historic churches prompted by the nursery rhyme “The Bells of London Town,” aided by Baedeker’s London and its Environs, … Continue reading
LET’S TASTE LONDON’S ORANGES AND LEMONS PART 1
WHAT BETTER WAY to tour London than visiting its historic churches in song. Let’s sing an earlier version, though I suspect you’ll find parts of it familiar. Here’s our tour … Continue reading
OUR FOUR PHANTOMS
THE PHANTOM IS COMING to SoCal again! Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical The Phantom of the Opera will be at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, June 6–July 7, 2019, … Continue reading
THE BUGATTI TYPE 35 ENGINE—POM’S VIEWS
LAURENCE EVELYN WOOD POMEROY, “Pom,” for short, was an English motoring journalist who wrote one of the great books of automotive technicalities, The Grand Prix Car, published in two volumes, … Continue reading
OPERATIC OCEANTICS
HIGH SEAS have had their share of high C’s. Here’s a sampling of operas with ocean motifs, along with related theatrics of one sort and another. Daniel Auber’s Haydée, ou … Continue reading
THE SALVATOR MUNDI CAPER PART 2
WE LEFT Salvator Mundi with the right number of thumbs and a mixed royal provenance. We ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Here in Part 2 are a Russian oligarch, a Saudi … Continue reading
THE SALVATOR MUNDI CAPER PART 1
HERE ARE ALL the makings of a good whodunit: A da Vinci original. Or is it? A beheaded English king passes it on. But is he the only royal involved? … Continue reading
SAVORING GOOD DESIGN
GOOD DESIGN is no more expensive than shoddy design. And New York City’s Museum of Modern Art has advice on the choice in “The Value of Good Design,” an exhibition … Continue reading
ABC OF AVIATION—A PAGÉ FROM 1943 PART 2
YESTERDAY, LT. COL. Victor W. Pagé’s ABC of Aviation: A Simplified Guide to Modern Aircraft touched on transoceanic airliners and flying fish. Today, Part 2 is equally deep and broadening. … Continue reading
ABC OF AVIATION—A PAGÉ FROM 1943 PART 1
IT WAS 1928 when Major Victor W. Pagé, Air Corps Reserve, U.S.A., wrote Everybody’s Aviation Guide, appearing November 2018 here at SimanaitisSays. But now, in Parts 1 and 2, today … Continue reading
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