Vere hodgson biography of michael jackson
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Discovery Expedition
British scientific expedition to Antarctica ( to )
For the brand, see Discovery Expedition (clothing).
The DiscoveryExpedition of –, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (–). Organized on a large scale under a joint committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), the new expedition carried out scientific research and geographical exploration in what was then largely an untouched continent. It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott who led the expedition, Ernest Shackleton, Edward Wilson, Frank Wild, Tom Crean and William Lashly.
Its scientific results covered extensive ground in biology, zoology, geology, meteorology and magnetism. The expedition discovered the existe
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Rounding Up The Reviews #6: A Pair of Persephone’s &#; trohet Hodgson & Florence White
In the latest of my review round up posts inom thought inom would catch up with two Persephone Books that I should have mentioned before and haven’t; especially as they are both very good indeed and as The Persephone planerat arbete is coming back. More on that soon but let’s get to the two books and thank the heavens for notebooks filled with bookish, erm, notes. Right, the books&#;
Few Eggs and No Oranges – trohet Hodgson
During the Second World War, whilst working for a charity in Noting Hill, trohet Hodgson kept a diary during the Blitz from – From the opening line &#;Last night at about 1 a.m. we had the first air raid of the war on London. My room is just opposite the police hållplats, so inom got the full benefit of the sirens. It made me leap out of bed&#;&#; she draws us straight into the real life loved bygd those at the heart of London town as we follow her life, and the lives of her friends, as
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by Angelika Zirker
I had every opportunity for knowing her well, at least. We were born on the same day, we learned to toddle about together, we began our earliest observations of the world we live in at the same period, we made the same mental remarks on people and things, and reserved to ourselves exactly the same period, we made the same mental remarks on people and things, and reserved to ourselves exactly the same rights of private personal opinion.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The One I Knew the Best of All, illustr. Reginald B. Birch. Private Copy (AZ).
I have not the remotest idea of what she looked like. She belonged to an era when photography was not as advanced an art as it is to-day, and no picture of her was every made. It is a well-authenticated fact that she was auburn-haired and rosy, and I can testify that she was curly, because one of my earliest recollections of her emotions is a memory of the momentarily maddening effect of a shark, sitting jerk of the comb w