Friday, 30 March 2012

Queen Elizabeth: Ten Years On

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His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall attended a memorial service in Saint George's Cha...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

The plight of Christians in the Middle East

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The Wall Street Journal is carrying a rather sobering opinion piece by Michael Osen, the State of Israel's ambassador to the United Sta...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

Famous Shipping Disasters: The attack on the "Lusitania" (1915)

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Although she is less famous than her equally-unlucky rival the Titanic , it's arguable that the Lusitania 's actual impact on histo...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

France's Iron Lady?

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"I am not a sentimental woman. Even during my youth I wasn't given to melancholia or remorse. I rarely looked back, rarely paused ...
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Famous Shipping Disasters: The scuttling of the "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" (1914)

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Named after the first emperor of a united Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse ("Emperor William the Great") first entered service ...
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Monday, 6 February 2012

February 6th, 1952: The Death of King George VI and the Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

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Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty The Queen to the thrones of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. T...
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Friday, 3 February 2012

Marie-Antoinette and the Affair of the Minuet

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Via Tea at Trianon comes an article about an early clash between the 14 year-old Marie-Antoinette and the Versailles court aristocracy ove...
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