The turbine had a tail fin to ensure that the blades turned into the wind. When access was required, a brake was appliedto arrest the blades and the swinging tail fin. A built-in ladder could then be climbed, from which it was possible to emerge through a hole onto the platform; a v...
But by 1947, the ‘Raj’ was simply closing up shop; grievously wounded by the late war and the horrible post-atomic world, the establishment was packing up and going home, leaving India and the soon-to-be-separate Pakistan to their own devices, for which the best of the British hoped ...
history happened and we’re not talking about it anymore, we still have no idea where that giant plane that disappeared over the fucking ocean ended up, Hatchimals are back, Prince Harry got engaged, “Little Rocket Man” was said aloud more than once, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agenc...
The article below originally ran in theLewisville Leaderin October, 1998 about finding lost friends. Some of the references are dated. Remember, in 1998 there was a marginal internet. Nobody had ever heard of Google. In those days, my preferred search engine was ‘Ask Jeeves.” Comrades in ...
I am enough of an old fart to remember when the UK was originally considering whether or not to join the EU in the first place, or rather theEuropean Economic Community, as it then was. To the surprise of absolutely nobody who has ever glanced intoOur Island Story, this was a massively...
Chestnut. The room was buzzing with excitement when we sat down so I knew it would be a very special experience, and I was so right. The story begins when Céline Dion, (brilliantly played by Clare Kennedy McLaughlin) hijacks a Titanic Museum tour. What follows is a crazy, whirlwind of...