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Book Corner – July 2020 (3)

Book Corner – July 2020 (3) - The Murder of my Aunt by Richard Hull

The Murder of my Aunt – Richard Hull

Published in 1934 and Hull’s debut in the genre, this is a delightful romp with quite a twist on conventional murder mysteries from the so-called Golden Age of detective fiction. There is no mystery as such as the reader is quite clear from the outset that the protagonists and narrator for four of the book’s five chapters, Edward Powell, is out to murder…

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Radio personality Edward Powell speaks about gambling addiction

Radio personality Edward Powell speaks about gambling addiction

Longtime radio DJ and Coast personality Edward Powell, aka “The Reverend,” was known for preaching the music across the Gulf Coast. Now, he’s playing a different tune to raise awareness about gambling addiction.

“You got to regain your sanity. You got to finally come to reality and say ‘I gotta stop’ and I did.”

Edward Powell hit the airwaves on the Gulf Coast at a very young age, earning a…

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Road trip to Parramatta

Road trip to Parramatta

  Parramatta Road’s Oldest Pubs

A SUNDAY drive along Parramatta Road took us to rediscover some of Sydney’s oldest pubs. The plan was to visit seven pubs between Sydney and Parramatta, with lunch at the Rose and Crown. Come with Time Gents on a special pub expedition to Parramatta.

First stop along the well-trod path that is Parramatta Road was at one of Sydney’s longest operating pubs – The…

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Satire concerning Dutch political events in the 1670s: a Dutch cheese has been opened to reveal a group of men standing around a table who react with horror as one of their number is snatched by a devil perched aloft and others clamber or fall out of the open cheese joining maggots, frogs and others on the ground; on the left, Dutchmen climb from smaller holes in the cheese to be greeted by a devil who expresses the desire to eat them; on the right, a Dutchman carrying the flag of the United Provinces rides on a fish and complains "... our fleet's disabled, and our Toadstool Throne,/Is sinking now, for we are left alone"; the devil on top of the cheese excretes further Dutchmen (one represented as a frog); at top right, another devil blows a trumpet, crying, "I doe proclain the Fall of Belgion States/Who for last Cent'ry were our intimates/But now soe proud, and impudent they're grown/They must be humbled to preserve our owne". c.1673

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After Francis Barlow 

Published by George Farthing 

Published by Edward Powell 

1671-1680