Diary Blog, 29 March 2023

Morning music

[Warwick Castle]

On this day a year ago

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11911975/Humans-achieve-immortality-eight-YEARS-says-former-Google-engineer.html.

Tweets seen

The giant American knight is decaying inside his armour…

More music

My own experiences in Egypt have been varied: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/.

[Windsor Castle]

Zolotoye Koltso (Golden Ring). Well, that certainly takes me back…

More tweets

Had Britain joined with the German Reich, or at least been neutral in the 1939-1945 period, this disaster would never have happened.

More music

Late music

As people now say, “iconic”…

4 thoughts on “Diary Blog, 29 March 2023”

  1. Hello Ian: How true your comment was. Unfortunately, Britain was forced into a perfectly avoidable war by the “usual suspects”. Ironically, I remember a famous article (and, I believe, still available on the Internet) written by Winston Churchill about Bolshevism as a Jewish phenomenon. The bastard sold himself in the 1930s to the Jews and became a warmonger.

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  2. Looking at the Coldstream Guards slow marches I remember their slow march is “Milanollo”. I thought it was a tune from an Italian opera, I was wrong. It was a tune composed by a German named Johann Valentin Hamm for the Milanollo sisters, two Italian child prodigies. Here is the curious and interesting story:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_and_Maria_Milanollo#:~:text=7%20External%20links-,The%20Coldstream%20march%20%E2%80%94%20%22Milanollo%22,prodigies%2C%20Teresa%20and%20Maria%20Milanollo.

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