Will Cross, Author
@WilliamPCross
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Author & Lecturer on Aristocratic Women & tweets to lament Evan, Lord Tredegar, Angus McBean, Howard Carter, Tom Mitford, Tilly Losch & Ronald Firbank
South Wales, UK
Joined September 2012
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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25 February 1937. British actor Tom Courtenay was born in Kingston upon Hull. His many films include Billy Liar, Doctor Zhivago, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, King and Country, Night of The Generals and The Dresser.
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• "Lost in a city that never sleeps, on a train that never stops.”
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Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor, published posthumously and composed around 1830, stands as one of the most intimate and emotionally charged works in the Romantic piano repertoire.
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“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m quite sure that it is not in order to have a good time.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
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1960s Britain was a place where cultured steam enthusiasts had enough time and the means to maintain private railways such as the heartwarming Ffestiniog Railway in beautiful Wales.
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use
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The public bench is a staple of life in New York City. The pigeon ladies sit and toss out bird seed. The performative reader flaunts a copy of "Crime and Punishment." Foreign spies covertly hold a meeting. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks banter in a rom-com. ...
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Angus McBean captures American singer/ dancer/ actress Gertrude Niesen in "Bobby Get Your Gun" , London, 1938 ...pleased to have added another McBean of Niesen after a strange nocturnal Virgil a few nights ago.... @WilliamPCross
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'I'm beginning to see the English as distinct from the Scots & the Welsh or even the people from Yorkshire, & certainly from the Northern Irish, & leave it-again-as a vague cloud of unknowing as to what Great Britain is. ... I guess the UK has entirely to do with the Queen.'
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An uncomfortable and sad read, in Portsmouth Cathedral.
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