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Author: Brian MacDonald
Company: -
Region: England
Website: oldgoatsblog.blogspot.com/
Memorable Quote 1: 'What's the answer to my question?'
Memorable Quote 2: 'Is this meeting going to last more than fifteen minutes?'
Author Comment / Biography:
A retired cruise-line executive. Married with two sons and two dogs.
My interests are ancient history, baroque music, understandable poetry and our two dogs who thoroughly enjoy their walks in our local country parks.
My musical tastes usually centre around the works of Bach, Handel, Mozart and Scarlatti. I much enjoy sacred choral music and plainsong chant along with the wonderful resonant chants of the Russian Orthodox church. I also enjoy the Gilbert & Sullivan operattas, my favourite being the Mikado.
My reading material is usually history (Egyptian, Roman and Victorian) though I get much enjoyment from the historical naval novels of Patrick O’Brian and the poetry of John Betjeman and others.
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21. The Isle Of Muck
July 26, 2010
I’ve never visited the privately-owned Isle of Muck, one of the smallest islands of the Inner Hebrides, but it sounds absolutely idyllic. It has only just come to my attention and I wish I’d known more about it years ago for I’d like to have spent some time on it and enjoyed its apparent tranquility...
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22. Safer?
July 26, 2010
The idea of ray guns has been around for many years. In the days of my youth I used on Saturday mornings to watch the exciting movies in which Flash Gordon used ray guns in his fights against Ming the Merciless. Now, the era of the ray gun has drawn closer.
Scientists working for the US firm...
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23. A Warning
July 26, 2010
The Argentine has its own economic problems which have affected most of the country, but one recent incident may serve as a warning to those looking after Britain’s strapped economy.
Those in charge of the Unidad Prison in Neuquen Province are so strapped for cash, they use dummies to man th...
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24. A Great Shame
July 26, 2010
Since 1801, with the exception of the war year of 1941, Britain has carried out a National Census every decade until 2001. Past census returns up to 1911 are easily available online (with the exception of Scotland who don’t publish that year until March of next year).
Now the census is to be...
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25. Where Did You Get That Cat?
July 26, 2010
It is well known that I am the original ‘Mr Squeamish’ in my family and cannot bear the sight of blood, discussions about people’s medical problems and the operations they have had, and cannot even look at the needle when I’m having a blood test.
I detest also those television programmes abo...
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26. How Sad
July 26, 2010
Roman history, and particularly aspects of their technology, interests me very much and my attention has been drawn to a recent report about the archaeological finds in the Yewden Villa complex in Hambledon, Buckinghamshire.
The Yewden site was extensively excavated in 1912 by archaeologist ...
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27. Raw Navigators
April 26, 2010
Most people know about the infamous Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789. Many may also know that he and eighteen other crew members were put off the ship near Tonga in a 23 foot open-deck launch so heavily loaded that the gunwales were only a few inches above the water and were left t...
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28. Malaria, Not Murder?
February 20, 2010
Since I was a teenager, I have been interested in Ancient Egypt and so I was most interested to read that scientists have effectively dispelled the theory that the 19 year-old pharaoh Tutankhamun was murdered.
Over the last two years scientists and Egyptologists have closely examined the pha...
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29. Burns Night
January 26, 2010
Today is the 251st anniversary of the birth of Scotland’s greatest poet and sex and alcohol addict. I refer, of course, to the Immortal Bard, Robert Burns, who millions of Scots around the world will celebrate tonight with the Scots national dish, haggis.
Haggis, a dish that either delights ...
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30. Links To The Polar Past
January 25, 2010
In 1912 Robert Falcon Scott, the polar explorer, along with four companions successfully reached the South Pole only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. Burdened by heavy equipment, much of which they discarded in favour of sled-dogs, Scott and his party...
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