Tag: History

  • Michael Collins – The Movie

    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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  • Eleanor Lorene Lowe-a Challenge!

    Eleanor Lorene Lowe-a Challenge!

    Feature Photo: sunshine-blogger-award-2020-mental-health-2-3 I had Rather wanted you to share in a challenge for which I was nominated by my dear friend Eleanor Lorene Louwe on her beautiful exhilarating site: ✨ Sunshine Blogger Award ✨ – You Lil Dickens. Unfortunately, due to some vitally important commitments I have at this time, I can’t participate. As

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  • Peter’s Quote for The Day-Love to Explore.

    Peter’s Quote for The Day-Love to Explore.

    Feature Photo by Max Goncharov Upsplash.com Change your Life-Explore . I am an explorer by nature, and this has continued through my adult life to this day. As a child I rode around the bush roads on my bicycle, to discover new places and exciting things. Today I am fascinated by the phenomenal history of

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  • Peter’s Quote for The Day- The Sun Has NoSorrow.

    Feature Photo by Kelly Sikkema Upsplash.com The Only Trustyworth Shadow Comes From The Sun. Have you ever stood on an early winter’s day, before the sun has reached its Zenith, and noticed you have a shadow? Did you also see, once the sun does get to its Zenith, your shadow slips away? I have often

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  • Peter’s Quote of The Day

    Peter’s Quote of The Day

    I never run away from the upheavals in my life, choosing instead to face them head-on; this way they never pursue me. A forest fire, once abated, does not raise its fury again for some years. ‘You Are Enough’ photo by Felicia Buitenwerf on Unsplash I love each new day; the advantage of waking up and finding I’m

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  • Failings are not Failure

    The overriding failure in my life was seeing my failings as a failure, when, in truth, they were simply steps on the ladder of my ultimate success. I turned my life around, simply because it wasn’t working for me. I woke up to the fact that the reason for this was; I was living in

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  • The Art of Sabrage

    “Sabrage /səˈbrɑːʒ/ is a technique for opening a champagne bottle with a Sabre,[1] used for ceremonial occasions. The wielder slides the Sabre along the body of the bottle to break the top of the neck away, leaving the neck of the bottle open and ready to pour. The force of the blunt side of the

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  • Saint Pinard

        Saint Pinard I recall some years ago a conversation I had with a French family, concerning my origins. At the time it raised much mirth among them resulting in the only member of the family, who could speak English, confiding in me. “Peter” he said, “This name, Pinard is a beet of a

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  • The Gravy Train

    The Gravy Train

    You and I are living in one of the most exciting ages in history. Do you agree with this statement and does it excite you? This is the age of discovery – discovery in almost every dimension of our daily lives. Science, anthropology, the human mind, medicine, human behavioral science, earth and environmental science, mechanical

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  • Book review: The Lost Boys of Bird Island

    Book review: The Lost Boys of Bird Island

    Originally posted on The archive of Elizabeth-Jane: Originally published in the Wits Vuvuzela on August 25. The death of author Mark Minnie, under suspicious circumstances, has renewed interest in his recently launched exposé The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which shines a light on the dark underbelly of some of South Africa’s twisted apartheid leaders.…

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