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ENCOUNTERS WITH RUINS are found in the earliest expressions of English literature, so it is not surprising that J.R.R. Tolkien would also include such scenes in his own fiction. For example, the dragon’s lair in Beowulf is a chambered tomb (Keillor and Piggott setup online credit card processingchase credit card home pagecitibank secured […]

Clarissa Eden’s father was the younger brother of Winston Churchill. Her mother was the daughter of the seventh Earl of Abingdon. She was born into an upper-class society which still, as in Trollope’s novels, was organised to bring daughters into contact with eligible husbands at summer balls. A beauty, with her mother’s blue eyes, […]

Service Awards

PSA wishes to thank members who sacrifice their time to help the organization and these awards are usually presented by all divisions on an annual basis. However presenting Service Awards is a first for EID. The following awards were issued at the Annual International Conference in Tucson:

* Recognition […]

When people write about their experiences as drug addicts they often — wittingly or not — write with a degree of competitiveness. There is a tacit understanding that the reader will feel cheated by anything less than a full-blown addiction to class-A drugs. A handful of Solpadeine and two bottles of vodka every day […]

And so we enter the Christmas books season, a phase in the publishing calendar so terrifying, so utterly without hope, that more sensitive bookbuyers may wish to hide in second-hand bookshops, or under their beds, until it’s all over. But amidst the piles of useless non-books in Borders and Waterstones, probably right at the […]

It is a long time since I have incited homophobic hatred against anyone; I think I was about nine years old the last time it occurred. My mother had patiently explained to me that homosexuals were like vampire bats, passing on disease and filth through their ghastly and peculiar sexual practices. Her colourful image […]

Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s great falling-out with Radio Four, the network has been seen by many, and especially by recalcitrant politicians, as a bastion of the liberal Left (or as Jeffrey Archer once so cogently put it, ‘a bunch of leftie communists’). But why? If you take a look at the current schedule, it’s […]

Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?

You seem to ask.

‘Myxomatosis’ by Philip Larkin Aldbourne, Wiltshire.

I saw the rabbit, a young doe, 50 yards or so down the path. ‘Look, ‘ I […]

This article is going to discuss artifacts, pyramids and a place called Stonehouse. It will even use the word “relic.” But this isn’t about archeology or ancient history. Instead, it is about advanced manufacturing in the 21st Century and one company’s strategic vision for rapidly developing new products while maintaining competitive manufacturing in […]

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