became a runaway global success, spawning operas, ballets, musicals, films, TV series and cartoons. This tale of love, obsession, jealousy and revenge features some of the most memorable characters in literature: the bewitching gypsy girl Esmeralda and her pet goat Djali, and the unlikely...
Fred Bright flew from 1941 to 1945 in aircraft which included Gypsy Moths, Fleets, Wellingtons, Halifaxes, Fairchilds, Ansons, Douglases, Liberators, Defiants and Dakotas, He trained in Australia, Canada and Britain. War time Operational Missions were flown over the Mediterranean from North Afri...
This page on planetary nomenclatureis fascinating stuff, as far as I’m concerned. Dig down a little deeper, and you’ll find900 Venusian crater names, from Abigail (the name) and Abington (actress Francis Abington) to Zurka (gypsy first name) and Zbereva (aviator Lidiya Zvereva, d. 1916...