Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Old Tucson Studios

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It's around noon on Sunday, October 31st, 2010. My husband, sister and I are staying at the luxurious Dude Ranch near Tucson, Arizona. B...
Monday, November 01, 2010

White Stallion Ranch

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White Stallion Ranch has a shuttle which can pick us up from our hotel near Tucson airport but not until 1.15. Arghh! It's 9.15 and we h...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

North of the Border

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It's 9.00pm, the mercury is nudging 90 degrees fahrenheit... and it's nearly November. We have just arrived in Tucson, Arizona. ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Dude Ranch Abides

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This Saturday my husband Richard and I are flying to Tucson, Arizona to spend a few days at a Dude Ranch. The White Stallion Ranch was reco...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Western Mysteries!

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Virginia City in 1862 is a glorified silver-mining camp on a barren mountain with a landscape like a singed cat. Seething with miners below...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Chariot Winners!

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Replica by Roman Glassmakers In a bid to raise awareness for Colchester's Roman Circus restoration appeal , local school childr...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Caroline Lawrence Author Interview Nov 2001

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[For the first unit in the literacy file of the LCP Literacy Schemes of Work - 'Stories with Historical Settings' - based around th...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sam & Flavius Clemens

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One of Mark Twain's favorite books was Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars . According to Twain's biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine,...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Buried Alive?

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or "The Case of the Bleeding Corpse" In the winter of 1861, failed prospector Alf Doten was living in Milpitas, California, try...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

Territorial Enterprise

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The Territorial Enterprise Newspaper The Territorial Enterprise was a famous newspaper in the Nevada town of Virginia City. It was est...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Dysfunctional Detectives

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According to the Pulitzer-prize winning screenwriter David Mamet, "Asperger's syndrome helped make the movies." In his collec...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Demon in the Toilet!

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It is a basic human instinct to fear things that dwell in the dark. This goes right back to our hunter-gatherer days and is hard-wired into...
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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Listening Books

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Near Charles Dickens Primary School, and not far from the old Marshalsea Debtors' Prison, is a blue and brick building full of sound. Th...