It closed as a cinema on 31st March 1973 with Charles Bronson in The Valachi Papers and Anatomy of a Pin-Up. The Granada circuit was famous for its lavishly decorated interiors created by a Russian émigré called Theodore Komisarjevsky, the most famous examples of which are at Woolwich and...
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Like in so many other areas of our culture,they have stolen the term “woke-ness” and tried to co-opt it into another invented grievance. For people who deride their political opponents as being too fragile and unable to handle reality, they certainly find a million things to cry about o...
Joe Biden will be sworn in as president, replacing Donald Trump. In March 1921, Woodrow Wilson left the White House, limping to the end of his term aftera devastating stroke. He would be succeeded by Warren G. Harding.
The newest Lithuanian “Double Genocide Industry” outreach to the French speaking academic world of Holocaust and World War II studies,this week’s conference in Vilnius, combines a number of truly outstanding scholars and papers with a political agenda of finding Francophone legitimization for Balti...
In 1794, Carlos González de Posada published Memorias Históricas del Principado de Asturias y Obispado de Oviedo, in which he refers to the language as “bable”, a term later used by the democratic Asturian government in the Statute of Autonomy of 1981. In 1801, Gaspar Melchor de Xove...
And yet, upon its close in 1866, a critic put things straight, admitting “there was always the restaurant odor, the mingled essence of many past dinners, and precisely the same from month to month and year to year.” If Taylor’s wasn’t free of bad odors, what restaurant was? Well...
It is thought that the term "Türkmen" was used to classify the Oguz who had adopted Islam, although this is not conclusive; the designation had earlier held political significance. The name "Türkmen" eventually replaced "Oguz." The majority of Türkmen live in the country Türkmenistan, ...
Sixteen days after the heartbreak of a still born very large full term son, mother watched helplessly as did Cindy’s husband and doctor as life slipped away. In later years as my mother told me Cindy’s story still so real to her the tears flowed freely. Down the high way 630 south...
Flames kept being fanned as more and more papers picked up the story and comments continued, both in favor of and against the Princess. Readers: For more on Princess Margaret on this blog, clickhere. Sign up for email notification when I post Part Four: Princess Margaret’s Trip to America...