Henrietta Petowker, of the Crummles touring stage company, performed at the Drury Lane Theatre (Nicholas Nickleby). David Copperfield orders beef in a restaurant here (David Copperfield). Dick Swiveller has lodgings over a tobacconist's shop here (Old Curiosity Shop). In the sketch The Pawnbrok...
That’s the other thing, I told Blake that I had a ‘colloquial’ grasp of Afrikaans – I can certainly speak, read and write it and at one stage in my life as a SADF officer I not only commanded in Afrikaans I thought in the language. I also have a Afrikaner heritage (two Great...
but then people started calling it the Long Bridge Across the Potomac to distinguish it from Chain Bridge, and later just Long Bridge. When they built the current bridge it replaced one built in 1872 that carried both rail traffic and carriages. They replaced it with...
Fausto Barredo thus had something very much in common with my own great-grandfather José Maria Borromeo y Galan (1847-1930). Both men made their fortunes by manufacturing horse-drawn carriages. In the case of my great-grandfather, it was the Cebuano “Tartanilla.” In the case of Fausto ...
“Wide Awakes”, a Republican political marching club, was a major source of conflict in the tense city. The standard narrative also holds that the Wide Awakes’ militancy helped set the stage for the May 10, 1861 arrest of the Missouri Volunteer Militia at St. Louis’ “Camp Jackson” by...
Then, the hat-maker appears; then, the mortician, with his awful job, to take stock of the house he'll stage the funeral in. Soon, there'll be that grim procession— We'll see the usual line of carriages all decked out in fancy braid. It's perfectly easy to predict all this, jud...
The only other fixture in the room was a chair sitting center stage. But this was no ordinary chair, it was the only one of it's kind in the State of New York. More unique and more costly than any King's gem crusted Throne. It was a wonder of it's time, built by two of Amer...
Bell. A 28 year old stage driver named E. L. Smith lived in their home at the time. 1880 Census, Tampa A few years before the petition The Louis Bell family was the second dwelling to be listed on the 1880 Census in the Town of Tampa; the first dwelling being that of William ...
In the second stage, the electors meet and vote into office a President. Since all the electors are already committed to voting a certain candidate, the second stage is actually only a formality. As soon as the first stage is over, everyone knows who will be the next President of the ...
only goes on to criticise Fanny'sFilet de bœufenfeuilleté- beef wrapped in puff pastry, and a dish which she had kindly fed him in her kitchen a week before- and which he felt "ruined the fillet steak", but suggests that the pair's performance on stage is "like a circus act"....