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Brilliant Dr Alice Hamilton, USA
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) grew up in a cultured family on a large Fort Wayne Ind. estate. Her father wanted home-schooling for his daughters, but eventually Alice decided to become a doctor anyhow....
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Alone in Berlin: Hans Fallada's great book
Born in Greifswald in NE Germany, Rudolf Ditzen (1893–1947) was the son of a lawyer and a very educated mother. In 1909 the family relocated south to Leipzig, following dad's appointment to the...
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Gertrude Stein & friends: life in art.
Gertrude Stein at her salon, 1920InvaluableBaby Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and the family moved to Vienna and Paris, so Gertrude spoke German, French and English well. Her father moved them back to USA...
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Destroy old slaver statues or put them in history museums?
Edward Colston (1636–1721) was born in a wealthy merchant family in Bristol. Later he went to school in London and established himself as a successful trader in woolEdward Colston's statueBristolIn...
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Up There Cazaly - Aussie football anthem
Roy Cazaly (1893–1963) was an early champion ruckman for St Kilda and South Melbourne Clubs from 1911-27. In the 1910s and 1920s, Cazaly formed a famous ruck pack with teammates Fred Skeeter Fleiter...
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Melbourne Uni 1889 mansion, heritage protected, tower, gardens
The land boom in Marvellous Melbourne came in 1883-1891 era which saw the price of land start to thrive. Naturally London banks were eager to extend loans to entrepreneurs who capitalised on this with...
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Hobart Town Hall fine architecture 1866.
When Hobart Town Hall had its 150th birthday, spouse and I sailed on the Spirit of Tasmania, from Melbourne to Devonport, to join in the celebrations. Joe lay on the bunk, seasick, for the entire...
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Teffi - beloved Russian writer, sad exile.
My maternal side of the family was very proud of the Russian arts, with one cousin becoming a professional writer, one a composer and two became music teachers. My late mother studied literature at...
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Polish chess team world champion1924-39
My parents thought Russians were the most intelligent, and my in-laws thought Czechs were most cultured. So thanks to Culture.pl for these Polish data, totally new to me. In Interwar years, chess was...
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Julia Cameron, Roger Fenton, Qn Victoria
To celebrate two of the leading artistic figures of the C19th, The British Royal Collection announced that 22 of the best photographs of contemporaries Roger Fenton (1819–1869) and Julia Margaret...
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