Tag: lchf
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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…
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Sybil’s Dodgy Dossier
Correspondence between number 10, FCO and MP: Dodgy Dossier Approximate text (from OCR scan): JIM DOWD MP Lewisham West Mrs Sybil Coady 111 London Road Forest Hill LONDON SE233XW HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON SWIA OAA 02072194617 020 7219 2686 (Fax) 26 March 2002 Thank you for your recent letter regarding the Prime Minister’s approach to…
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The Army
Few aspects of modern life are more different than the conditions endured by soldiers in the 18th century army. Our soldiers today still fight, endure wounds, amputations and death but their conditions of service are so much better that they would be astonished if they read the accounts left by their ancestors who fought in…
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St Michel 26 October 2010
B&B Heckenroth Cellar repairs Chantal Hecenroth B&B IMG_1794 Place du Serre Snow from car park Snow mountains snowy mountains from St. Michel
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Claire Rayner Obit.
Claire Rayner was a nurse in the Royal Northern Hospital when Tony and Eric were doctors there. She and her husband lived in Cecil Road Muswell Hill as well as us. So they became friends.This was in 1960. We had outgrown our flat and needed to buy a house. One days the Rayners came round and said…
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University of Manchester Scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics
 University of Manchester scientists win the Nobel Prize for Physics Coup for UK Physics, as two University of Manchester scientists are awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of graphene. Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov have been awarded the highest accolade in the scientific world for their pioneering work with the…