I love discovering long-ago battles that everyone seems to have forgotten, such as the Great Northern War between Charles XII of Sweden and Peter the Great of Russia in 1700.
Month: June 2015 (Page 1 of 2)
Well, what a controversial column that was: “What do you do every day in Mexico?” I have never received so many e-mails on any other subject. I didn’t think it was such a big deal.
When Paul Julius Reuter broke the news of Lincoln’s assassination in Europe only 12 days after it happened, he stunned the world and became synonymous with swift newsgathering thereby creating the most famous press service in the world.
A scandal has arisen of late and not, for a change, at the club but in our sleepy Rockwood neighbourhood of Victoria. It is one of those things that one normally would cringe at if it were not more or less right on our doorstep.
A few weeks ago someone passing my chair, I am not sure who, whispered “Naysayer” at me in a very aggressive way. Now I can take the thrust and parry at the club as well as any other mem for it usually falls from me like water off of a duck’s back, but not this. This stung. To accuse your Major of punching holes in other’s ideas and plans seems cruel and unusual in the extreme. However after some digging I think I now know why I was so hurtfully singled out.