Women strive for equality - in 1923... and first Irish passports are issued
What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest reports in Echoes of Our Past
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What was in the news 100 years ago today? Richard Forrest reports in Echoes of Our Past
By ECB Wijeyesinghe Holland has been mentioned so often in these columns recently that one cannot help lamenting the almost mass exodus of a small but important section of our population in search of fresh pastures. One would have thought that all good Burghers when they die go to Holland, but unfortunately that is not […]
By ECB Wijeyasinghe When Julius Caesar said: “let me have men about me that are fat,” he must have been thinking of persons like Lionel Wendt. Wendt was half a dozen extraordinary characters rolled into one and would have delighted the heart of Caesar’s recruiting sergeant. Naturally, Wendt was a heavy man where adiposity was […]
Retro articles are often memory joggers but this week's tome comes in the category "before my time."