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...111s.1 Well, it's mainly because of that (and the music, oh yes, the music -- Ron Goodwin's stirring and bombastic theme as well as the William Walton piece in the dreamlike "duel in the sky" sequence [edit: actually called "Battle in the air"]) but it's also because it manages to encapsulate just about every theme, anecdote, stereotype and myth about the Battle going. 'Call me Meyer'? Check. The Big Wing debate? Check. 'Yellow-nosed bastards'? Ch...

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...ve is free; near-complete from 1828 to 2008; contains both images and text -- and the OCR is high quality; tagged; and is easy to search or browse. However, there is no advanced search function (though you can use Boolean operators such as AND and NOT). While you can use the Trove-style filters to narrow a keyword search down to a decade of interest, you can't zoom into a year, let alone a month, week or day. There doesn't seem to be any easy way...

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...by chance! It's quite a striking -- though incongruous, amid all the green -- statue, though the photo probably exaggerates the size of it. Also in the same gardens is the memorial to Arthur Sullivan -- as in Gilbert and Sullivan. Given his numerous love affairs, the form of the memorial seems most appropriate! I wonder whether that was intentional? Not that the Victorians and Edwardians (Sullivan died in 1900) were as buttoned-down as they are po...

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...d to me. I was surprised at how fast the traffic moves along Oxford Street -- without parked cars to act as a buffer, seems like it would be easy for a pedestrian on the footpath trip over and get your head split open by a double-decker bus. Of course, it was a Sunday, so maybe the traffic is jammed the rest of the week. I keep thinking I see familiar faces among the crowd when walking down the street. Since just about everybody I know is on the o...

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...ou come across anything NS-related. Cheers Peter Brett Holman Thanks again -- I wish he had hazarded a guess though! Peter Lewry I tracked down a copy of The Great Delusion and have just finished it. A very interesting read, that ranges widely from well-researched common sense to the downright whacky. I also didn't expect the anti-internal combustion engine and pro-steam power from coal chapter. Some laugh out loud moments too that might well have...

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...3-Jul-09 09:27:11 UTC - Identi.ca [...] https://airminded.org/2009/07/01/the-best-things-in-life-were-free/ [...] Chris Williams It's always been famously slow, but... I really can't see how bandwidth charges are the problem here, to the extent that they have to start PAYING PEOPLE WHOSE JOB IT WILL BE TO COLLECT RENT. They can provide this via the SAS's existing infrastructure, after all. Perhaps our world-wide opposition to the change might inclu...

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...ily's oral tradition held. Upon reflection, the reason for this is obvious -- over the years, as the family members who could remember John themselves passed away, the succeeding generations assimilated fragments of his story into what little they knew of the war, and that increasingly came to mean Gallipoli. Unlike Gallipoli and in contrast to the situation in Britain, the Somme has little meaning for modern Australians. And in family history ter...

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..., best individual blog, best new blog, best post, best series of posts and best writer. But there are two new categories for other forms of history social media: best Twitter feed and best podcast episode. And, even more significantly, I'm one of the judges (along with Katrina Gulliver and Shane Landrum) for two categories, best group blog and best new blog. So please make our decision as difficult as possible by nominating many excellent group an...

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...sion of the French observers, it is stated, was that "the flying fortress" -- the heavy bomber which can take care of itself and beat off all attack -- does not exist; speed alone gives some security to the bomber.2 The earliest use I know of was by the press baron Lord Rothermere, in February 1934: Once an air invasion has started, there is no defence against it. The modern bomber is a flying fortress. The latest type of French air-raider actuall...