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The Man in the Moon

For as long as we have gazed at it, we have imagined seeing a face, head or body (so-called pareidolic images), in/on the moon. Given that we are keen to see a ‘man in the moon’ several myths have grown … Continue reading

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Which person to what pub?

A clue as to which people historically went to which pub is given in one of the “Roxburghe Ballads,” (vol. ii. pg 307,) the collection of 1,341 broadside ballads from the seventeenth century,mostly English,originally collected by Robert Harley,1st Earl of … Continue reading

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