I know a number of readers of this blog have access to Amazon Prime Video on the internet. I have recently watched two feature films on...

Many of us are reading more than ever as the lockdown cuts our options. So this is not a list like my earlier ones but a glimpse into my...

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1. Idi Amin 2. Morocco 3. Haile Selassie 4. Morocco 5. Septimus Severus or Caracalla 6. Berbers 7, Bartholomew Diaz 8. From medieval West...

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100 years after the end of The Second World War will we, as a nation, have finally reached a point of consensus over the question of what...

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1 Which of Louis XVI's brothers also became Kings of France? [2 answers] 2 Which Queen of Sweden converted to Catholicism, abdicated,...

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