Oh those crazy Brits. Risking life and limb to catch a runaway cheese. Every spring bank holiday, which this year coincides with Memorial Day in the US, the annual Cheese Rolling Festival is held at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth. How is this accomplished, you might very well ask. Well, five 8-lb Double Gloucester [...]
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War is hell
Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman is credited with being the first to say “War is Hell”, and in To Make Men Free, Richard Croker has vividly illustrated that truism. Croker’s novel covers “America’s bloodiest day” from its inception in the strategy of Robert E. Lee, through each and every [...]
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