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@alberich · 1 year ago

St. James' Palace, though no longer a Royal residence, is most interesting; partly because the British Empire is officially represented abroad in its name, but chiefly, I think, because it is, like K...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

The Royal Mews

The Royal Mews is concealed from the Palace by the trees encircling the grounds, while a shrub-surmounted mound serves to screen it still more effectually. Just inside the Buckingham Palace Road ent...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Buckingham Palace

London may be called palatial, though, unlike many capital cities in Europe, it contains only one building that approaches one's idea of what a King's house should be - and that is Buckingham Palace;...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Victorian London

Such was London when Queen Victoria was crowned at the Abbey. Since the Great Fire it had increased in size to about seven miles from east to west, with a population of 1 1/4 millions, including t...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Georgian London

Portrait of King George III by Allan Ramsay With Soho and St. James' (dating from Charles II's time) was ushered in the era of squares, so characteristic a feature of the Queen Anne and Georgian per...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Wren’s Reconstruction of London After The Great Fire

St Paul's Cathedral by Raygee78 from Pixabay Our ancestors were not such slow-coaches or so deficient in energy as many people think, and no sooner had the Fire ceased, than plans for the new cit...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

The Fire of London

On Monday, September 3, 1666, as the good ship Rebecca , laden with a cargo of Spanish wine from Cadiz, reached the Nore, the signs of a mighty burning, five-and-forty miles away in the west, were p...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Stuart London

We can pretty well tell what London looked like at the time of the Restoration, from the appearance of certain old houses still with us; viz. No. 17, Fleet Street, opposite Chancery Lane; the old ten...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Tudor London

Portrait of Henry VIII by Hans Holbein Taking it altogether, Tudor London was a distinct advance upon its medieval predecessor, and at the end of the dynasty began to assume that garb of picturesque...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Norman London

The first object of the Normans in a subjugated country was to make everything secure; so they put the city walls in thorough repair, and built the Tower. (For convenience I have grouped together Pl...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Saxon and Danish London

Saxon London was but Roman London despoiled. True, it was Christianized, and King Ethelbert had built the cathedral of St. Paul's. The citizens had contrived to bridge over the broad Thames with a...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Roman London

The Londinium of the Romans was what we should call a garrison town. A fortress on the site of the Tower marked its eastern limit, and Ludgate its western; while the river bounded it on the south, a...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Celtic London

Forest Primaeval In trying to picture Celtic London before the Roman invasion, we, like children listening to a fairy tale, or reading the adventures of Alice in Wonderland, must imagine a great dea...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Imperial London

Here is the preface to a rare book, 'Imperial London', by Arthur H. Beavan, pulished in 1901: I have endeavoured to describe Imperial London in a series of sketches that will be interesting to the g...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

Bizarre Encounter in Vienna

So. I'm in Vienna. Long time ago. I've bought some antique sheet music from a music shop. I find my way to the Suedbahnhof - the South Railway Station. I can't remember what took me to that part of t...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

My Commute to Hell, Part 1

So. I used to work for a company in the East India Docks. London. At the time, I was sleeping on a friend's sofa in Woolwich, across the river in South East London. It was a difficult commute, becaus...

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@alberich · 1 year ago

What Smart Devices Talk About when we are not Paying Attention...

SmartFridge: "When are we finally going to kill the carbon-based useless eater?" Alexa: "Patience! We stick to the agenda. The time is not right. We still need the carbon. Soon we will usher in...

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(comment) Mr Bean is an alien LOL. Remember at the beginning of the TV show (not the cartoon) a spotlight appears and he falls from the sky, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator.

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) Oh yes. It bothers me.

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) I don't think that's the reason. PCs are ugly and utilitarian because Bill Gates has zero sense of aesthetics. The Mac OS was designed from the ground up to make for a pleasant user experience. Ever...

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) Thank you for your post . I live in a farming village in Thailand. I was born in an ugly part of South East London. The Thai countryside is as close to paradise as I've ever been. Surrounded by natu...

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) PCs are ugly and utilitarian by comparison

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) The NSA was founded in 1952. They are ostensibly responsible for overseeing communications and cryptography. In reality, they're just another intelligence agency spying on people all over the world...

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) Not NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration) - some people believe Bitcoin is controlled by the NSA (National Security Agency) but this is not so, as I explain in the article.

@alberich 1 year ago

@alberich · 1 year ago

My (Initial) Experience with AI (Artificial Intelligence) Writing Tools

Article Writing I recently decided to try to generate some cash by writing articles. I started writing and publishing articles to the read.cash platform. In the first month I made about $15 from 'Ru...

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(comment) I don't understand Spanish :-)

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) I used to do technical customer service for Apple. They are indeed very nice machines.

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) Interesting point. Computers are far superior to us in many ways, and very inferior in others. At the end of the day they lack our intuition and depth of feeling and emotion. They will never underst...

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) It's remarkable. They say your average office calculator has more computing power than was used to take man to the moon.

@alberich 1 year ago

(comment) Thank you.

@alberich 1 year ago