After being allowed home, the family spent many nights in the damp and often freezing Andersen shelter in their garden, and the rest of the time slept downstairs huddled all together. At least 32,000 people were killed in London during nine months of relentless nightly attacks, and bombs ...
August 12th: We left Amsterdam at 9 AM local time, and arrived in London 9:15 AM local time (one hour earlier than Amsterdam). Then, at 2 PM local time we departed London for Orlando, arriving back into Orlando at 6:25 PM local time the same day (5 hours earlier than London). Ye...
for all the people on the list. This is why, all right thinking people note, such a list is a stupid idea, and entrusting it to Americans is even more so. Average Mike and Co go to England, because this American Spy company have their headquarters in the BT Tower in London. Why?
During the winter of 1896–1897, the water around Alaska’s ports froze solid, which forced shipping to shut down completely. The result was a major food shortage—and skyrocketing prices for the little amount of available supplies. In the most isolated regions of Alaska, a single can of sar...
Later, in early summer we returned toYorkshire for a week’s holiday spent in the pretty village of Austwick. We had planned to spend our time walking for it is excellent hiking country. However, my partner was nursing a broken foot and, later, during a hill walk on my own there, I ...
The first service took place in London. It was for Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the consort of the British monarch from Elizabeth’s accession on 6thFebruary 1952, until his death in April 2021, aged 99, making him the longest serving ...
24 HOURS IN LONDON A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND A TEAR IN THE SKY Alana Wallace Australian horror Bai Ling BFI London Film festival Book Breaking Glass Pictures Byron Gibson Canadian Film Central City Media Chee Keong Cheung CINEMA EPOCH Comed...
“sparkle” to his own circumstances as he navigates the seedy streets of London, juggles his responsibilities to his expecting wife and her younger sister, and indulges his obsession with his mistress. In scenes as vivid as Dickens’s writing, Humm evokes a character who is often clever, ...
Herbert Fisher (HAL Fisher), husband ofLettice Ilbert – whose own, remarkable story can be readhere– was on his way to work during a WW2 blackout. Warden of New College, Oxford and Chairman of the Conscientious Objectors Tribunal, he was in London for the latter when hit, not by a ...
in ancient Greece and beginning in 1189 AD by “rakers” and “gongfermors” in London, England. By 1300 AD, wastewater solids known as “night soil” were sold to farmers outside of the walls of Norwich, England, and in 14th century Florence, Italy, the “votapozzi” sold cesspit ...