@jeales1 But surely a ‘successful invasion.’ [1688]

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I’ve got some fab deals on eBay this way, including a very nice (Cahartt) ‘Parker’ and also a ‘Chester Draws’.

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@DrMusicale @ianpacemain I would tend to chalk many of these decisions up to blind panic.

… who is unable to spell the word 'correspondent' correctly.

@amwilson_opera @operapage Awful news.

From The New Yorker:

@deborah_feder @WQXR @bekibrindle @CullivanPeter He’s just an excitable boy.

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I switched off the @BBCRadio4 episode of ‘Disruptors’ about Martin Luther because of the extremely distracting (and utterly idiotic) background music that ran through the entire episode. It sounds more like advert than serious radio.

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@GillHay49447872 @Paul_McCreesh @thetimes Austrian citizenship at that time was not granted because you were born in Austria, but rather that of your parents. His father was from Hungary, and his mother was from Prague. He inherited Hungarian nationality from his father, which was converted to Czechoslovakian in 1918.

@GillHay49447872 @Paul_McCreesh @thetimes Correct, but he did not have Austrian citizenship.

Oh, the humanity!

@JVMonte2 David Russel, hands down.