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kvkirillov/iStock via Getty Images They say that a dog is a man s best friend, but these writers found solace and occasional inspiration in another four-legged companion. Celebrate your own love of cats with these 13 feline-loving scribes. 1. Mark Twain Alamy Mark Twain the great humorist and man of American letters was also a great cat lover. When his beloved black cat Bambino went missing, Twain took out an advertisement in the New York American offering a $5 reward to return the missing cat to his house at 21 Fifth Avenue in New York City. It described Bambino as “Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light.” The cat, fortunately, was alright and returned home. ....
Updated: January 30 2021, 3.03pm – A country home near Kirkcaldy has been thoroughly overhauled by its owners and offers tremendous privacy, sitting up its own private lane. It even has a ruined castle in its garden. Jack McKeown investigates. Anyone looking for privacy, space, rural living, views, and an easy commute to Edinburgh will find everything they need at Piteadie House. It sits in glorious seclusion up a quarter-mile long private tarmac drive off a country road just outside Kirkcaldy. A large main house, three bedroom cottage, and extensive outbuildings provide an enormous amount of indoor space, while a ruined castle provides scope for the more ambitious property developer. ....
M@ 11 Famous London Cats A stray that shot to fame. Number 10 s notorious chief mouser. A church cat that (maybe) predicted the Blitz. London has known some truly phenomenal felines over the years. Here are some of our favourites. 1. Dick Whittington s Cat Four-times Lord Mayor Dick Whittington is inseparable from his cat in popular imagination. Unfortunately, there s no clinching evidence that the moggy existed outside the pantomime tradition. Still, the nameless cat is enshrined in two statues (that we know of) in London: one on Highgate Hill and another outside Guildhall Art Gallery. 2. A Street Cat Named Bob Image: Paul Analog via the Londonist Flickr pool ....
by Two and a half centuries ago this year, the first comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language was published. The lexicographer (def. “a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge”) was Dr. Samuel Johnson, better known then as an essayist and moralist, and (as is more obvious now than then) a serious Christian in a deistic, even skeptical age. Nine years earlier, a bookseller named Robert Dodsley asked the 36-year-old Johnson about compiling a dictionary. Dodsley considered it a rebuke to national pride that England lacked anything to equal the great dictionaries of France and Italy, each the product of teams of academics. At first Johnson declined, ....