The memories cheer me up during this lockdown and make me yearn for the safe reopening of these establishments. And all of them deserve and need our patronage and support. That said, another joy derived from this hobby is telling the story of some remarkable individuals or groups – most of...
It fired up our imaginations. Soon enough we had abandoned the playset entirely and were tearing around the house pretending to be all these characters ourselves. Someone found a pack of paper plates and we all started flinging them at each other like Captain America — one of the older boys...
If you’re all about taking a look inside Queen Liz’s palace, you’d better make it in summer, while winter is beautiful and festive for those looking to get their fill of Christmas markets and traditional cheer. Things to Know Londoners, and English people in general, have a much ...
Roland Ennos: The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization (2020, Scribner). Samuel G Freedman: Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (2023, Oxford University Press). Newt Gingrich: March to the Majority: The Real ...
He is believed to be the last survivor of those who worked on the construction of the vessel and the visit was arranged by his granddaughter to mark his 91st birthday. Cec's father and his son Gary also worked for Harland and Wolff, the builder of the vessel where Cec worked for ...