Moving Pictures

It’s a week and counting ’til our move. I’d rather be writing blog posts than sorting, pitching, packing, and hauling. But that’s not realistic. Instead, I’d like to share with you these two video clips from the British Pathé archives. The first is King George VI giving the real speech that inspired the film The…

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Re-Run: The First Common Market?

  My Own True Love and I leave next week for Belgium and my thoughts are turning toward Waterloo, Flanders Field, and the Hanseatic League.* Especially the Hanseatic League. I’m fascinated by traveling merchants, from the Silk Road caravans that brought luxury goods from China and India to the Muslim peddlers who sold dry goods…

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Re-Run: Word With A Past: Kidnap

I’m dipping into the archives again, because I’m in over my head here at the Margins. (So much so that I didn’t even celebrate the blog’s 3 year anniversary on May 11. Hmmmm….) We move on June 2 and to say we are not yet ready is an understatement. Too much to do, not enough…

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