Hints and tips:
...As Gieves made Nelson’s uniform, so Wellington was a patron of Hawkes, particularly its military headwear....
...My house is one big room really but I particularly love the space around my sofas, which are George Nelson originals from 1954....
...In the absence of a coffin, it is believed the barrel was filled with brandy to preserve the body for the journey home....
...We knew Nelson’s body had been brought back in a barrel of brandy, so we bought a glass of brandy and dipped the hair in it....
...“People thought if these rednecks could vote for the NDP, maybe they are not Karl Marx,” says Nelson Wiseman, director of Canadian studies at the University of Toronto....
...Thomas Fremantle’s ship, he writes to his beloved Betsey, is given the melancholy honour of towing the Victory home after Trafalgar, pausing only in Gibraltar to re-pickle Nelson’s body in fresh brandy....
...Great Dishes of the World, by Robert Carrier, 1963, Thomas Nelson & Sons In the 1970s kitchen of my childhood, Robert Carrier’s Great Dishes of the World stood out....
...He started by distilling brandy and other spirits as well as producing a tutti-frutti flavoured soft drink....
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