I saw the first episode of the first season of Downton Abbey way back in May 2011, when I was visiting Australia. And I watched it with ad breaks. Maybe that coloured my viewing experience, because I never got back to the show until the last few weeks. I kept hearing about the series, here […]
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Nero was the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and he died on this day in A.D. 68. While Claudius, his immediate predecessor, brought stability and sanity back to the empire, and Julius Caeser himself made the empire great, Nero’s rule was not distinguished. He was a lacklustre leader, and a persecutor of Christians. He
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The Beatles’ eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, was released on June 1, 1967, in the United Kingdom, and a day later in the United States. It has been called the greatest music album of all time, and is certainly one of the most influential. The style of music was far ahead
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Bonnie & Clyde were gunned down on a country road in Louisiana on this day in 1934, each of them dying from multiple armour-piercing rifle bullet wounds. They were 23 and 25 years old respectively, and their careers as public enemies had included a series of petty thefts and needless murders of private citizens and
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The Tudor period, and King Henry’s wives have been the focus of a lot of novels, movies and TV lately — some of it terrific stuff indeed. The Tudors was compulsive viewing, not just because of the costuming, in-your-face sex and titillation and the knife-edge lives those who dared played politics led in those days.
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We tend to let the name “Alexander the Great” roll off the tongue without thought, but there is a reason he earned his name. Alexander III of Macedon died on this day in 323 BC, after building the greatest empire the world had ever seen up until then. He was undefeated in battle his entire
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Sites James Bond: Rare and Unpublished Photos From Auditions for ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ LIFE Magazine. This is fascinating. James Bond(s) as you’ve never seen them. Indie Authors Historical romance author Jennifer Blake is now self-publishing. Various Romance genres. Carolyn McCray – and you
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I started late on Fringe. As in, only a few weeks ago, and the show is already into Season 4. But I’ve caught up already. The hook bit deep, and dragged hard. The most frustrating part of that is I’m not really sure why. The show doesn’t deal with paranormal — or it says it
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Goodies I’ve found from chatting and cruising this week: Interesting Posts/Articles Thirty-Two Shades of Green!!! Erotic Romance writer Sahara Kelly’s reaction to Fifty Shades of Grey My Kitchen “Miracle” Cleaner! For all the frugalists out there. Top 1,000 Romance Novels of All Time Interesting in an intellectual way only. I lost faith in the list
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 highschool. They studied the movie and everything to do with Shakespeare for ten very long weeks, to the point where none of them now
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