Tag: British
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Michael Collins – The Movie
Feature Photo Michael Collins – The Movie A Film Review by sirpeterjames.com. Neil Jordan directs this film, and it stars Liam Neeson as the man, Michael Collins, Aiden Quinn as Hary Boland, and Julia Roberts as the romantic figure in both the lives of Michael and Harry. The filming of this movie in 1996 took…
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‘Tanamera’ – By Noel Barber
Book Review: ‘Tanamera’ – Noel Barber First Published in The United Kingdom in 1981. Who should read this book?
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Lockdown – Day 46
‘Snollygoster’ Politics is the breeding ground of the snollygoster politician. Such breeding ground is not new to the universe, having originated in biblical times; its tentacles reach all over the world, no countries excluded. It is driven by greed; but worse, it is the lust of humanity to exercise power and control over fellow…
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Jessica and Pieter-Jacobus
All the while she gazed out her upstairs window – the bright moonlit Transvaal winter’s night revealed a fantasy landscape before her. It was a stage upon which she could set the actors as she wished.
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Resplendent Heaven
I was all of twenty years old and in love. We met at a Fabric Designers workshop and the moment my eyes gazed into hers, I knew I had reached heaven on earth. She invited me to join her for a weekend getaway in the mountains, with her Fabric Designers Group. At nineteen she…
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Mission Malawi – Chapter Twenty-Two
END IN SIGHT?……….. Since February, life has been hectic with the usual spate of attempted robberies, but by the Lords grace we haven’t lost much. It’s very sad to witness the amount of thieving especially from those who come to stay with us saying that they want to be taught the gospel. I guess times…
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Tot Facienda Parum Factum
Tot Facienda Parum Factum “So much to do, so little done” Last words uttered by Cecil John Rhodes, British businessman, mining magnate and founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia) on his deathbed. This was the motto of my high school and whenever I remember these words, I recall my teachers, trying vainly to drum…
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
Author: Bryan Sykes A Book Review, by sirpeterjamesdotcom This book, for me, was a very appealing read. Aside of the many pages of scientific technicality (Bryan Sykes is after all, – a scientist and not a novelist). Yet, I thought, considering the scientific information that was required to explain how he and his team achieved…
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Tot Facienda Parum Factum
Tot Facienda Parum Factum “So much to do, so little done” Last words uttered by Cecil John Rhodes, British businessman, mining magnate and founder of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia) on his deathbed. This was the motto of my high school and whenever I remember these words, I recall my teachers, trying vainly to drum…
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‘Tanamera’ – By Noel Barber
Book Review: ‘Tanamera’ – Noel Barber First Published in The United Kingdom in 1981. Who should read this book?
Love Your Life Adopt Your Purpose 