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Friday, 18 April 2014
An Easter celebration for Vlad the Impaler of the House of Dracula
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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, son of Vlad II Dracul of the Order of the Dragon, was not a forgiving man. "I have not the forgi...
Monday, 7 April 2014
Tintoretto and the St. Mark paintings
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St. Mark's Body Brought to Venice Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice 'Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on t...
Saturday, 5 April 2014
Charles Gallo : Anarchist !
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"Long live the Republic! Long live anarchy! Death to the bourgeois magistrature! Long live dynamite!" Such was the defian...
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Friday, 28 March 2014
Harold Pinter : One Man's Land
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'There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. There are things I remember which may never have hap...
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Chess with Aleister Crowley and Savielly Tartakower
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Aleister Crowley 'The wickedest man in the world' Around 1930, the English magician, occultist and self-proclaimed Beast...
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Pedro de Mendoza - the syphilitic Conquistador
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After several tumultuous weeks on the high seas, the flotilla of thirteen vessels, under the command of Pedro de Mendoza, made its slo...
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Assam Tea: the day the English got their first taste of India tea
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Preparing the ground and sowing the seed 10 January 1839 is an important day in the history of England. For on that monumental day t...
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