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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Olé ! Islero the Bull gets his Revenge....

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On a day in August 1947, in the town of Linares in southern Spain, a great bullfighting spectacle is about to take place. In the red ...
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Thursday, 22 August 2013

22 August 1911 - theft of the Mona Lisa. Chief suspects: Guillaume Apollinaire and his accomplice Pablo Picasso...

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On 22 August 1911, the painter Louis Béroud made his habitual visit to the Louvre art museum in Paris and headed straight to the ga...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Herman Melville and those nice cannibal people of Typee

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In 1840 Herman Melville is 21 years old and is looking for adventure. So he signs up with the whaler Acushnet  and on 1st January 184...
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Wednesday, 26 June 2013

George Orwell - plain English and a nice cup of tea.

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When George Orwell wasn't lampooning totalitarian regimes in 1984, or maligning pigs in Animal Farm , he was passionate about two...
Sunday, 23 June 2013

Henri Matisse and all that jazz....

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Was Henri Matisse, the celebrated artist of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, also a jazz fan? Was he ever Groovin’ High and S...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Atahualpa - the unhappy Inca Emperor

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'The time is right to strike the Inca Empire'. [Francisco Pirazzo in a letter to the King of Spain] The Incas of Peru worship...
Friday, 14 June 2013

Alexander the Great and the Greek waiter

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'I foresee a great funeral contest over me'. Alexander the Great On 13 June 323 BC, in a room surrounded by his doctors...