ABC Wednesday

R is for Gilbert Romme

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. The French Revolution resulted in many ridiculous ideas, but perhaps the most risible was the French Republican Calendar devised by Gilbert Romme. The thinking behind the new calendar was twofold. First [...]

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Q is for Fred Quimby

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. It is a strange fact that the producer of one of the funniest and most enduring cartoons knew nothing about animation and little by way of a sense of humour. Fred [...]

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P is for Harry Pollitt

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Harry Pollitt is little known these days, but as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain and a friend of Russia, he was a significant figure in the turbulent [...]

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O is for Annie Oakley

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. You may not know the name Phoebe Ann Moses, but you will recognise her by her stage name – Annie Oakley, sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Her [...]

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N is for Horatio Nelson

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson is a great national naval hero, at least in the UK, probably less so in France, but famous though he is, many of the things we [...]

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M is for Marcus Morris

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. One of the things that any boy had to budget his pocket money for in the 1950s was his weekly threepence for a copy of the Eagle comic, vehicle for Dan [...]

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L is for Ruby Loftus

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. World War II was a time for heroes, both on the battlefield and on the home front, and one of those was machine operator, Ruby Loftus. Loftus was born in Llanhilleth [...]

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K is for Wrestling

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. No, I haven’t lost my grip on the alphabet. K for me will forever be associated with wrestling as I shall endeavor to explain. The wrestling I enjoyed watching wasn’t the [...]

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J is for Jerome K Jerome

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

This is my contribution to ABC Wednesday and for Round Ten I am focusing on people from the past, some famous, others less so. Although I love my gadgets, one of the most popular that I’ve avoided so far is the Kindle. My problem with it is that although one might store a library within [...]

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