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82Pretoria's Four Forts
After the abortive Jameson Raid in January 1896 the Transvaal government realised the need to protect Pretoria militarily and so built four forts in defensive positions.
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80Travelling down Mall Road, Lahore, Pakistan
Mall Road in Lahore is also known as Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Asam for Mohammed Ali Jinnah, one of the founders of Pakistan and its first prime minister. This hub is only about a part of Mall Road which is one of the longest roads in Lahore. ...
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80Blessings have been poured out onto me
I wrote a Hub four weeks ago entitled Home For Sale; Owner Bankrupt. In it I wrote of my gratitude for the great blessings I have been graced with during my lifetime. I revealed that I have financially gone broke, that my home is for sale, as is an...
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78For the Love of England
Here are more than a few reasons why it's easy to love England and the English people.
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78Famous horse quotes
Amazing horse quotes from famous people and celebrities including Benjamin Disraeli, J.D. Salinger, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, W. C. Fields and many more.
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77Magna Carta and Salisbury Cathedral: Human Rights and Vintage Postcards
One original copy of “The Charter signed at Runnymede” on which much of the concept of human rights is kept in the chapter house of Salisbury Cathedral in the county of Wiltshire, in the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, England, some distance from Runnymede which is on the banks of the Thames River near London in the county of Surrey.
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78To the Top of the White Marble Staircase: A Dream
Recaptures a beautiful dream which remains vividly in my mind. Included is a video of Enya's song, "Marble Halls."
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77True Fishes Bony Fishes - Barracudas, Cod, And Herring Fish
True fishes are those with bony skeletons. Some of them are as vicious as the sharks and the rays. In fact, the Barracudas, which are a true bony fish, are known to be more feared than most sharks. Barracudas are found in tropical and subtropical waters. The species known as the Great Barracuda has a whole mouthful of teeth, some lance-like and some saw-like. One tooth, near the point of the lower jaw develops into a structure like a fang. Apparently, Barracudas are more likely to attack
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79Kipling's Verse
Rudyard Kipling did not make it onto my list of top ten novelists in the English language. He is, however, my very favorite English poet. I have a copy of his complete verse that I received as a present when I was a child, and it is very well...
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78Bulls: Bull-worship, Bullfighting, Bullrunning
Frankly, this is all bull, or rather, all about bulls. I’ve put up this brief background as a back-up to the poem, ‘Borodoro the Bull’. A bull, as we all know, is the adult male of the cattle species, the domesticated Bos Taurus. But the word ‘bull’ by itself also denotes the males of other bovines, including the bison and the water buffalo.
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