Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC) was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (aka Octavian).
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Harrow clock, WW2 - plaque
Our Latin consultant, David Hopkins, provided the translation and adds: "The ...
Lauderdale Road Synagogue - Halford
This design was used repeatedly to commemorate the dead of the City of London...
Trinity College of Music - WWI memorial
We puzzled for some time about the uncomfortable layout, with two names cramm...
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Dr. Frederick James Furnivall
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Victor Hugo
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Joseph Conrad
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
Fenner Brockway
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transportation to Australia
One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.
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