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I know people are bored in lockdown, but this is ridiculous: Thames safety warning after film-maker has to be rescued from river. RNLI highlights dangers of jumping into river after apparent online video stunt. I suppose this was in that brief hiatus period, but still. At least I suppose the Thames is no longer a seething stew of Orrible Disease Organisms: 'Monster Soup': commonly called Thames Water, but I still wouldn't want to ingest it.
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I think this may have been pushed out around the time people were, rightly vociferating about the present subsidised catering in the Houses of Parliament as the Hon Members pontificated about how The Poor might live on fresh air and sunshine and porridge and the occasional gnawed bone...: 'Bellamy’s was the name commonly used for a set of rooms in which tea, coffee, alcohol and light meals were served close to the Commons chamber in the pre-fire (before 1834) Palace of Westminster'.
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I won't say these are Forgotten Figures, but I will say, I had not heard of them, so my ignorance has been enlightened::
Had never heard of Lenore Tawney, an intriguing sounding artist with Bauhaus links, and A major figure in the fiber movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. But her academic promise was failed by a system too rooted in prejudice to accept her as an equal. Also a labour organiser.
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Not at all a forgotten figure, and will this unpublished fictional version add much to the story already told? Why Simone De Beauvoir’s Same-Sex Love Story Nearly Wasn’t Published (Until Now).
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