Category: Fitness
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Paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux
A story for today which links past and present. Today I heard on France Culture a programme about Lascaux and it set me thinking. In 1949 I was teaching history to a class of 11 year olds in Paddock House Grammar school, Oswald twistle ( the very name of the place is redolent of English…
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April 23 The feast of St. George
April 23 The feast of St. George Bernice and I are both starting diaries. I think that as we learn history to find other mens’ experience it is useful to record one’s own personal experience and emotions for future reference, for later on when we contemplate our lives we will remember only outstanding events, smaller…
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ERIC JEWESBURY eulogy
Like many people here today I have known Eric all my life, and it is difficult to imagine the world without him. He was a man who had a real gift for friendship, and gave generously of himself to his friends. That makes it difficult for anyone person to say what he was to all…
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Banking Ombudsman FORMAL RECOMMENDATION on passbook
bank ombudsman recommendation PDF version I recommend that the complaint by MRS. S. E. COADY (“Complainantâ€) against MIDLAND BANK PLC (“the Bankâ€) be withdrawn without the payment of any money or the provision of any valuable consideration by the Bank to the Complainant. Following the issue of an Assessment on 11th October 1993, I have…
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Childbirth
Childbirth In the 21st Century childbirth is safe and uncomplicated in the majority of cases, medical care is good so that early problems are mostly overcome .If the mother cannot breast-feed good substitute dried milk is available. In the 18th Century parents could have no confidence that their children could be born safely and thrive.…
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Chocolate in the 18th Century
Introduction of Chocolate to London The first printed evidence we have of Chocolate being used in London is in the notice in the Public Advertiser in 1657: In Bishopsgate St is an excellent West India drink called chocolate to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and also unmade at reasonable…
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Smuggling and Customs Officers
Smuggling is a crime with an unusual status. Although most crimes are abhorred by the middle classes smuggling was the exception which for reasons of economy and presumably of enjoying the thrill of taking a risk was regarded by them as the exception to their usual stance of not supporting illegal activities. The temptation was…
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7 Buildings-
The architect’s problems in dealing with clients impossible demands are illustrated in this extract. Imagine the size of the inscription necessary to make such large letters. Impossible to achieve while keeping the correct proportions of the pillar. We think of vandalism as a 20th century phenomenon. So it is on a massive and near universal…
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Activities and inventions
From the top to the bottom of society people were very much more active in the 18th Century than in the late 2Oth.At the bottom agricultural labourers aided by horses did by hand ploughing, sowing seeds and harvesting, their teenage children were mostly employed as servants, their wives worked most of the hours of the…