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Stormy aftermath: Lightning strikes ignite several new wildfires around Central Oregon
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Câmara de Lobos garante condições de atracagem no cais
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Autarquia limpa escarpa do acesso à Fajã das Galinhas
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World War I letters from Platoon Sergeant Godfrey John Hammond during his time in the Middle East as a member of the Canterbury Infantry battalion.
They talk about home, family, gratitude for mail or a pair of socks, the weather. Letters from Nelson soldiers at the front lines of conflicts from Gallipoli to Vietnam often don’t or can’t talk too much about the daily horrors of war, although some write, almost casually, of stepping “in front of a bullet”. The letters and diaries, kept in chocolate boxes or rusty tins for decades by family members, reveal the stoicism of Kiwis fighting battles in extreme conditions far from home.
1838: A year in the life of the British empire From central London, a huddle of harried clerks sent out an endless stream of dispatches that influenced the fate of the British empire. Alan Lester focuses on the year of 1838 to reveal how these city-bound bureaucrats managed to govern the world’s largest maritime empire Published:
April 22, 2021 at 4:28 pm
When James Stephen arrived at his desk on 1 January 1838, he was confronted by piles of dispatches from across the world. As the permanent under-secretary at the Colonial Office, which administered all 32 crown colonies that were controlled directly by the British government, Stephen spent every day “diligently… keeping back the flood of papers from deluging us”. He even warned his sister that “I shall soon become a mere bit of blotting paper myself!” Amid letters from imperial governors in Australia, southern Africa, Sierra Leone, Malta and Canada, Stephen faced – among other issues – the spectre o