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Create your own tour app.

Here are a couple of methods of creating a free guided tour.   Whitepoint | Virtual tour software for smarter, mobile-ready virtual tours. Whitepoint | Virtual tour software for smarter, mobile-ready virtual tours. izi.travel.app https://izi.travel/en is another platform that is free to create tours.

London in Music

george chisholm https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=CEOKBd1SDds skiffle the vipers  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=27n8PFfKsc4 Lonnie donegan  dustman https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ODEShfdxoR0 Chewing gum  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=x6bFTVi0hHs   (skiffle) Billy Fury   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9MTXBQp5OgI The Who mods https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=uswXI4fDYrM mix  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=594WLzzb3JI Small faces Slide show watcha gonna do    https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=sVHT5fLrX2k playing live https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=mYvi-l2SRnA Sandie Shaw https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Xx5otxLS3qc MArianne Faithfull https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=of21WYW5t5g Rolling stones   https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=5BykilS816E Sarg pepper beatles  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=guiNy0jSKkI  hendrix  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=HLEboBA-Xzk Quintessence  https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Z062TDH5lhg   jesus bud

‘Innocence of Memories’ on Vimeo

This is a film based on Orhan Pamuk's 'Museum of Innocence' a film about longing, or perhaps obsessive love, and about Istanbul. ‘Innocence of Memories’ on Vimeo

Dark Age getting lighter? Internet Archaeol. Issue 41. Romano-British Pottery in the Fifth Century. Themed issue

Internet Archaeol. Issue 41. Romano-British Pottery in the Fifth Century. Themed issue

Gallus, the Cybele and Roman Eunuchs

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A recent posting in the Britarch mailing list referred to a Poem of Catullus which mentions, it was said, a Eunoch of the Goddess the Cybele.    I often use a poem by Ovid which mentions the 'Votaries of the Cybele ululating in high pitched chorus with their Phyrgian Fashions'  and so looked up the Poem - Poem 78 http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e78.htm This left me in some doubt as to whether the poem is about a Eunuch  Although the context of Poem 78 is following poems about the Cybele, and one meaning of a gallus is a eunuch of the Cybele. but as you will see, in this translation, Gallus is married.  Wikipedia also tells me that Gallus can mean many things, including: People several ancient Romans; see Gallus (cognomen) ... Gallus , the Latin word for an inhabitant of Gaul Gallus , the singular form of Galli , the eunuch priests of Cybele Animal-related Gallus , the Latin word for rooster or cockerel Gallus (genus) , a bird genus in the phea

Mad Frankie Fraser and the Criminals of London

Take a look at these two clips to get a fascinating and horrifying glimpse into the lives of the tradational cockney criminal Mad Frankie Fraser talking about burying an axe in Eric Mason's Head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgUX1t5jiiU Eric Masons talking about Mad Frankie Fraser burying an axe in his head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbYBcEMsX98

Jane Austen Chawton Walk

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The Council web site has a literary walk around Chawton, where Jane finished off most of her work. The Austen's Cottage in Chawton     http://www.easthants.gov.uk/sites/default/files/documents/JaneAustenWalk.pdf

Welcome to the Experience Economy

Useful article on the Experience Economy https://hbr.org/1998/07/welcome-to-the-experience-economy