This post ran seven years ago, so it has drifted deep into the archives. I thought I’d refresh it and bring it forward. –t. I’m almost afraid to mention Shakespeare. There is a whole generation of readers out there, including my kids, who had Shakespeare in Love shoved down their throats in English class at […]
Shakespearean Sonnets Revisited. Read More »
Like skyscapers going viral in Dubai, “tall” is a modern phenomenon. Man has grown four inches higher in just the last 100 years. If the cause was genetics, that would be a freaky-fast change, but the causes are actually far more prosaic: Better food, absence of disease, and a social preference for height, which makes
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I’ve seen many pictures of women in third world countries carrying water. Buckets and jugs on their heads, or jerry cans in both hands, sometimes with babies strapped to their backs. I’m sure you’ve seen them, too. Thing is, not so long ago, everyone had to carry water from the nearest source, back to their
Authors can go to extraordinary lengths to build their fictional worlds. They have travelled the world, and spent decades in research. James Cameron has gone where few men have gone before–in ocean depths that few have ever seen. Based on his research he wrote The Abyss (one of my favourite movies ever) and Titanic. J.R.R. Tolkien invented
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I wrote this post almost exactly two years ago. I thought I’d bring it forward, because it has a lot of the information in it and all the far more interesting asides (like Oded Fehr). I’m digging back into the history of the Legion once more, this time not just because my curiousity bump was
Héros de la Légion étrangère française, oh mon dieu! Read More »
Freedom Fighters, book 4 of the Vistaria Has Fallen series, was released just over a week ago and has already snagged some fantastic reviews. Here’s some snippets. Oh and a little something extra from Mother Nature thrown in just for added fun. The tension ramps up with each book in this series. If you enjoy
More Romantic Suspense. More Hot Latin Heroes. More Military Muscle. Read More »
If the image didn’t give it away for you, let me surprise you: Lego® creates more tires every year than any other company in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records says so. Did that just make your day? 🙂 Cheers, Get the news that no one else does. Sign up for my newsletter.
Quick! Who Manufactures The Greatest Number of Tires In the World? Read More »
I wrote this post in April 2012 and cannot believe it was six years ago now. I still remember watching this particular episode of Sherlock, and being blown away by it. I thought I’d bring it forward, because even though the BBC series is now in hiatus, possibly never to return, the episodes are all much
Pulse Pause Moments – A Scandal In Belgravia – Sherlock is STILL pausing pulses! Read More »
The wisteria tunnels of Japan actually look like the perfect place for the I-Love-You scene of just about any romance. The only problem is, I can’t think of how to get the loving couple in such a tunnel in the first place. It would have to be awfully contrived, because most often, both the hero and
In the first part of this long post, I described the long process involved in turning any type of fiber (wool, flax, silk, cashmere, cotton) into strands for weaving, to produce cloth, and how labour intensive it was in the past, when machines didn’t do all the work for us. All That Was A Woman’s
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