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11 hours ago · After dinner we collected Meg and drove back to the beach. This time we found a car park, and the tide was further out, so there was more sand. We still only saw a couple of people, so it was wonderfully relaxing, and we strode along the sand for an hour while Meg danced alongside us, investigating seaweed and rocks and the taste of seawater.
11 hours ago · The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentiethcentury operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners.
11 hours ago · Of William IV at Windsor there is little to relate except the ill-natured stories told in the Greville Memoirs. One of the best authenticated of these describes a speech made by the king at a birthday dinner in the castle, 21 August 1836, when, in the presence of a hundred people, he made a violent attack on the Duchess of Kent, who was there with the Princess Victoria, with the result that ...
