And Ellen being Ellen has kindly collected those recipes including of course those for hot chocolate onher excellent site. As she puts it there, “you’ll find everything from recipes and menus created by fans of the series to delight the Mad Duke Tremontaine and his Riverside friends, to ...
Anne Hyde (12 March 1637 – 31 March 1671) was Duchess of York and Albany as the first wife of James, Duke of York (later King James II). Anne was the daughter of a commoner – Edward Hyde (later created Earl of Clarendon) – and met her future husband when they were both living...
I really should have done this yesterday, when there was still time to help mobilize the vote. That failure is on me. While I took to twitter with a bunch of other progressives to try and rally young people to go vote and to remember that even if the choice was between a Democrat w...
After being surprised by an irritating neighbor (I can vouch for this) while in his toolshed (he was bitching about something), he was responding to questions from the Dyer Police along the lines of “did you approach this individual with a hammer in a menacing way?”. Rule #1 – never...
He was a skilled gamekeeper of the old school, and had employed the “Euston” method (pioneered on the Duke of Grafton’s estate near the village of Euston in Suffolk) to multiply the numbers of wild, native, grey partridge on his patch. We found dummy partridge eggs – as well as ...
in 1976 when he played Kojak on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After MASH, he went on to have various roles in films such as Woody Allen’s Another Woman, Shadows and Fog, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. He also did quite a bit of work for Disney as a very proficient voice ...
making him one of the most successful and innovative musicians in the second half of the 20th century. He has released numerous hit singles and albums, including "Superstition," "Sir Duke," and "I Just Called to Say I Love You," that have topped charts globally. His album Songs in the...
The challenge has been well organised until now but in some ways the wheels did come off a bit here. The storm has clearly taken everyone by surprise; there are mass drop outs, and some of the staff announce that there is the option to take people to the next rest stop (the halfway...
Evelyn, a young and emancipatedEnglish writer visiting Istanbul for the second time in 1918, is the first personwe see on stage, and she immediately takes on the role of narrator, which shekeeps throughout the play:EVELYN:Yesterday, I arrived once again at the Queen of cities and I held ...
When I think about his influence now, I wonder how my life might have been different had I never known him; had there been a traditional, straitlaced someone in his place; someone who did not love partially formed human beings or who saw the teaching process as routine or tiresome; autocr...