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She got married in Chelsea Registry Office and died in a Mews House at 4 Cadogen Lane, just north of Sloane Square. http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2009/12/the-marriage-and-death-of-judy-garland-chelsea-1969/

This is an excellent Guardian article comparing Dickens frantically hearty Christmas ideal with the reality of his less than enthusiatic embracing of family life. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/20/bleak-house-the-dark-truth-behind-charles-dickens-christmas-obsession?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVS19XZWVrZGF5cy0xODEyMjE%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&CMP=GTUK_email It is a review of an Exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum • Food Glorious Food: Dinner with Dickens, curated by Pen Vogler, is at the Charles Dickens Museum , London WC1N, until 22 April.  how does grammerly work ? forr 

Great belief, great expression of the love of place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmSKF5hdIpw and the words https://speakola.com/eulogy/tony-walsh-this-is-the-place-manchester-vigil-2017

This is an excellent comparison of pubs now and in 1973 with a little bit of history https://darkestlondon.com/tag/old-red-cow/

I found this exciting at the beginning and disappointing by the end.  It begins with a communion with a 40,000 sculpted piece of walrus ivory.  Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel.  The oldest figurative art.  Its amazing and may equally be female.  But around the wall of the dark space are words and phrase s that suggest the exhibition is really going to explore the meaning of spirituality.  And I was ready for it having just been reading Mary Beard on the Parthenon in which she has a small section where she hints at the complexity of polytheism.  So in the dark space beyond the Lion-Man you read the words: Thinking, Making, Symbolism, Worlds beyond Nature.  'Tranfering thoughts into objects'.  'Turn everyday experiences of being into worlds beyond nature'  And this is what religion is something to reshape the ordinary into the sublime, or the complex into a story, of the scary into the sphere of the Gods.  But the Exhibition didn...

Interesting new technology which may provide new sources of information about connections in Medieval Europse. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uoo-pfm101518.php

Interesting story about a cup being modelled on Marie Antoinette's breast. http://www.hanleywoodtexas.com/ancienne-manufacture-royale-marieantoinette-jatte-teton-footed-bowl-pieces-p-38636.html