Why all this guff over an ICE CREAM POLL on con...home? Make more sense asking random selection of six- (or sixty-) year olds their favorite flavor. Do admit, that a nice scoop of tutti fruiti or roc… (View Post)

Leon's gone down to celebrate at the "Turk's Head". Where they have a real Turk's head stuck on a post above the door. (View Post)

At start of Civil War, Confederate leaders & followers alike were convinced that "King Cotton" would inevitably force Britain to actively side with CSA due to dependence of UK mills on … (View Post)

Vitaï Lampada Sir Henry Newbolt There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. An… (View Post)

History Guy - July 4, 1826 (Death of John Adams & Thomas Jefferson) On the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the US lost two of the men most responsible… (View Post)