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What a Gentleman Keeps Up His Skirt is Her Own Business
415/11/2013 by noonobservation
So, The Great Labour is finally complete: I have purchased a house of my very own. My books are now …
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Arctic Airships Part 3: Amundsen vs Nobile
406/08/2013 by noonobservation
The final part of my epic trilogy of Arctic Airship posts has taken a little longer than I hoped due …
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Arctic Airships Part 2: The America
219/06/2013 by noonobservation
My first two blog posts about airships both came to rather tragic conclusions, so I’m relieved to say that this …
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Arctic Airships Part 1: The Eagle
707/06/2013 by noonobservation
In the two decades before Flanders became the fashionable place to kill and be killed, many plucky young fellows thought …
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Alberto Santos-Dumont, Dirigibles and Dinosaurs
725/04/2013 by noonobservation
I have recently become enamoured of the dirigible – that evolutionary dinosaur of aviation. Like the diplodocus, dirigibles were huge, slow, difficult to …
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Madame de Pompadour’s Tips on How to Keep your Man
305/04/2013 by noonobservation
A birthday, absurd levels of drinking, and my pathetic attempts to buy a larger house to keep my books in …
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Prince Rupert Addendum: Boye’s Observations on the Nature of Fame
204/03/2013 by noonobservation
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, being excessively interesting and romantic, left little room in my blog post about him for …
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