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...An age of burgeoning bourgeois comfort for many, this was also an age of intense and bitter cold, the so-called Little Ice Age, when the Thames froze over and Mary Evelyn, wife of the diarist John, complained...
...“I’m a little bit afraid,” said Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration Pentagon official. “It doesn’t sound very coherent.” Possibly the most glaring discrepancies involve Russia....
...In January 1684 John Evelyn described ice on the Thames so thick that “coaches, carts and horses passed over”....
...It speaks volumes about life inside the Chancery at Lincoln, where his father became chancellor in the late 1960s....
...Christians call him Christ, Jews call him Jehovah”; accepting money from and publicly embracing George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi party, while moderating the “all whites are devils” rhetoric...
...Evelyn Collins, chief executive, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Andrew Cameron, chief constable, Central Scotland Police....
...This is not a historical novel in the sense of - say - Gore Vidal’s trilogy (Burr, 1876, Lincoln), but it is no less obsessively concerned with US history....
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