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How did the Phoenix get its name and who was Doc Stewart? Brian King answers these questions and more in his new book on Dundee's pubs.

The men who reinvented warfare Malcolm Gladwell’s new book The Bomber Mafia and the visionaries who wanted to make conflict “clean”. When Curtis LeMay was five years old, standing in his family’s backyard in Columbus, Ohio, in about 1912, the future Air Force general saw his first aeroplane. He would recall in his memoir: “Suddenly, in the air above me, appeared a flying machine. It came from nowhere. There it was, and I wanted to catch it.” The boy was enchanted by the “wonderful sound and force and the freakish illusion of the Thing”. He chased it down the street, and wh...

Murder, a mummified corpse and (possibly) Jack The Ripper: The history, hysteria and horrors of Dundee High Court © DC Thomson Clockwise from top left - Dundee's court building, Peter Tobin, Peter Tobin, the last Dundee High Court sitting, Charles White Outside the courthouse, there was pandemonium. The street was awash with people. Clamouring crowds cheered and sang, while politicians in the midst of an election bellowed for justice. But inside the building, behind those imposing Doric columns, there was only a reverential hush as one man was called to answer the gravest of charges. That mo...

That's life - movies for cold winter nights tony bender Thank goodness for streaming services during these frigid North Dakota winter nights. I thought I'd share with you a few of the great movies that I've watched recently. Grab some popcorn and settle in. The Shootist Decades ago, a friend of mine gave me a theater placard for this movie which I had framed. What a treasure. This 1976 film stars John Wayne in his last movie as J. B. Books, a dying gunfighter who decides he'd rather go out in a blaze of glory than die a miserable death in bed. Lauren Bacall stars as a prim widow who rents the...