Lady Caroline Ponsonby, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, was born in London in 1785 and swiftly proved herself to be as...
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The eruption of Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Indonesian archipelago on 10 April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic explosion of the past thousand...
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The Vampryre is a work born in Lord Byron's Villa Diodati in Geneva, and was the birth of the modern vampire as we know it. Here are five things you may not...
79 months ago

Now comes major evidence that Percy Bysshe Shelley, the most sublime of English lyric poets, had significant ancestral links to America, and that those links...
528 months ago

Up to 16 players from Cheltenham Park will join Nar Nar Goon/Maryknoll in season 2021-22.
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Siccome me lo chiedono anche perché ad aprile è ricorso il bicentenario della morte, torno sulla fake di Lord Byron a Portovenere,...
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Sono passati quasi due secoli, da quell'8 luglio del 1822 quando davanti a Viareggio Percy Bisshe Shelley colò a picco sulla nave che lo...
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Ooh and also here's Thomas Medwin's account of Byron's skull cup in his conversations with Lord Byron! Byron also used to call himself The...
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Living life elegantly, one smile at a time.
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Thanks to its natural beauty and abundant fish stocks Wales has been a popular angling destination for hundreds of years.
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