who despoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lord...
avid lover of both the Bible and Shakespeare, Bob had a brainstorm, an “aha” moment, that resulted in this literary and readable devotional. Below is a review I wrote for Amazon and Goodreads. As Bob (and Shakespeare) would say, “Thou shouldst buy this book!” And I say it as ...
James Bond's Creator Wrote A Script For The Franchise's Silliest Film — And It Was Lost For Decades There is a moment in "Live and Let Die" that sets the tone for Roger Moore's entire run as James Bond. Left for dead on an island in the middle of a pond full of hungry ...
Among his many bonafides, Cropper co-wrote Redding's "(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay." In his post-Stax years, the two-time GRAMMY winner and nine-time nominee produced and played on sessions with Jeff Beck, Jose Feliciano, John Prine, John Cougar, a...
That has always been an easy thing for me to do. It’s a gift I’ve been given, not anything I did on my own. In the half-light, I thought of David and remember thinking, still mostly asleep, “he wrote himself comfort.” He wrote himself (or I should say prayed out) because ...
Johnson was close with son Dwayne, who previously bought Rocky a house andpurchased him a car for Christmas in 2016. On Father's Day 2018, Dwayne wrote onFacebook, "Little boys by nature, look up to and idolize their old man. They want to be just like 'em, do whatever they do and...
'Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep...
At Trafalgar, Nelson, on the brink of opening the fight, sat down and wrote his last brief will and testament. If under the presentiment of the most magnificent of all victories to be crowned by his own glorious death, a sort of priestly motive led him to dress his person in the jewel...