Great Britain | Great Britain
Nov.23.2012
Black Friday is now spreading into Canada. I have already had one email telling me of all the fantastic sales available at the local book store. Good for them! I, personally, know of no bandwagon upon which I would not jump.
And - well ... maybe - people don't buy books solely for their covers. But...
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Nov.06.2012
Girl magazine 1951
vol 1 no 1 November 2 1951
A sister paper to Eagle first page cover page is. The new super colour weekly for every girl.
First page Kitty Hawke and her all-girl air crew (till vol1 no 21 march 21 1952 the last installment of Kitty).
The editor of the magazine is a man Marcus...
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Nov.04.2012
Non feminist voices- Monica Dicken
In response to a letter of a reader who feels insecure about staying at home and be a model to her children the novelist Monica Dikens (an agony aunt) writes on the issue of women’s work
Woman’s Own Monica Dickens march 8th 1956 p. 28...
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Sep.20.2012
Ah, the power of the written word. Never forget it.
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Salman Rushdie remembers Havel in his latest book
New York, Sept 19 (CTK) - British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie remembers how former Czechoslovak and Czech President Vaclav Havel wanted to help...
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Aug.11.2012
Phil answers a listeners question as to what his favorite Grand Slam is, then addresses some audio statements made by former professional quarterback and radio personality Boomer Esiason made in regards to Roger Federer either “tanking” or not competing in his Gold medal match with Andy...
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Jul.27.2012
When one is trying to understand history, countries and geography, especially not one's native land, it's confusing as is the case with Breton, Brittany and Britain. Who, what, when and where did you say it is? Briton (or Breton) is the name of one of the tribes who invaded Britain before the Anglo...
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Jul.08.2012
Manhattan Island, Ireland, The British Isles, The Falkland Islands...
"The War", available at Amazon.com.
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“Why not just push the Brits back into the sea?” Martin said, holding an empty fork over his dinner plate.
His cousin Romero Heflin shoved the ravioli about his plate with so...
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Feb.18.2012
His birthplace is in question; and there’s no evidence of a birth certificate. What gives? No, I’m not talking about President Obama. The big mystery gripping all of Great Britain is questions surrounding… Charlie Chaplin!
Secret papers released on Friday by the National Archives in...
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Sep.13.2011
Oh, this is a great story. Only in Britain, do you think? And I like that some of them are centered around Ian Rankin. Talk about mystery.
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The tag on this reads:
To @edbookfest 'A gift' This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas...... & festivals...
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Feb.01.2011
So it is not only in Egypt where the libraries have to be saved from destruction. But here it's called something else.
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We Love Libraries - video
Threatened library closures in Somerset inspired Michael Eavis, Maggie Gee, Kate Mosse and Big Issue founder John Bird...
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