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Tag Archive 'Book Review'

Good as Gold by Lady Louise Patten

Posted in This and That on Oct 18th, 2010

In a new book by Lady Louise Patten titled “Good as Gold,” it is revealed that the Titanic would have been saved but for an error by the helmsman who steered the ship the wrong way and into the iceberg.  Lady Patten is the granddaughter of the Second Officer Charles Lighttoller.  This secret has been […]

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Did You Know?

Posted in Did You Know? on Jun 17th, 2010

Canadian writer, Will Ferguson, has received the 2010 “Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour” for his travel book, “Beyond Belfast” (subtitled: A 560 mile walk around Northern Ireland on sore feet). He tells of his walk along the Ulster Way — narrowly surviving death by lorry, drowning, mugging, death by a wayward bull, but a frenzied […]

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