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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Terence Morgan's birthday Saturday December 8, 2007 All Day (This event...
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Dec 7, 2007
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10665
Hi Warren: Nope - I regret to say I never served, and I've gone by "clash" since the third grade. :D -clash ... clash bowley Flying Mice Games - an Imprint of...
Robert Bowley
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Dec 11, 2007
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I agree. I'm a big fan of the Lewrie series, and teh French Admiral is an excellent book. It's certainly worth a look. -clash ... clash bowley Flying Mice...
Robert Bowley
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Dec 11, 2007
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10667
I recently read the first in the Drinkwater series (AN EYE OF THE FLEET) and enjoyed it. Darker than Hornblower, but similar in pacing and action. - Duane ...
Duane Spurlock
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Dec 11, 2007
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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Patrick O'Brian's birthday Wednesday December 12, 2007 All Day (This...
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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Robert Lindsay's birthday Thursday December 13, 2007 All Day (This...
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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Anniversary of Hornblower-L's creation Tuesday December 18, 2007 All...
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Dec 18, 2007
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10671
Many Happy Returns! ... December 1998....
Nathan
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Dec 18, 2007
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10672
Wow, a whole year.Every Day An Adventure To: Hornblower-L@...: sailor1775@...: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:56:17 +0000Subject: [Hornblower-L]...
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Dec 18, 2007
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Reminder from: Hornblower-L Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hornblower-L/cal Anniversary of Raoul Walsh's death Monday December 31, 2007 All Day ...
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Dec 30, 2007
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7169047.stm Author of Flashman stories dies The novelist George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman adventure stories,...
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Jan 3, 2008
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I wonder if someone can help. At the time of Trafalgar the fleet often gathered/anchored at Spithead which is outside Portsmouth Harbour. In a couple of books...
Margaret Muir
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Jan 3, 2008
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As I recall in the Files or Photos sections on the main page for this group there is a photo of the inner cover of one of the Hornblower books showing a map of...
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Jan 4, 2008
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Thanks for passing this along. Anyone who has not read the first few Flashman novels is missing a treat. Interesting that this literary saga, like...
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Jan 4, 2008
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i do have them but have not read any yet as i perfer audio books.and mine are in e book format. bronwyn ... From: Hornblower-L@yahoogroups.com...
Bronwyn Tindall
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Jan 4, 2008
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Hi 'Dragon' I cross posted my query about Spithead on the Royal Navy sail and steam Yahoo site and got a reply with a swift reply with a link to an 1873 chart...
Margaret Muir
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Jan 4, 2008
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The Motherbank lies off the coast of the Isle of Wight between Cowes and Ryde. It was regarded as an anchorage for small vessels. ...
Peter Beeston
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Jan 5, 2008
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10681
... The chart is 1783, not 1873. I've been looking for Mother Bank & think it might be west of Ryde, off the edge of that chart. No luck so far. -- Martinus...
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Jan 5, 2008
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... Further west than I'd been looking. I've downloaded a copy of this map as a Hampshire boy by birth. Lots of interesting information there. -- Martinus...
Martinus Scriblerus
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Jan 5, 2008
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Hi Martin, Sorry I transposed the figues in the date - yes 1783. Obviously great minds think alike as both you and Peter came up with the same map (and quickly...
Margaret Muir
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Jan 5, 2008
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The talk about Ryde and Spithead reminds me of standing for 41/2 hours on Ryde pier waiting for the ferry delayed by thick fog sometime in the mid-60s! Joan UK...
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Jan 6, 2008
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10685
I don't know if this has ever been discussed here, but this evening I discovered a website that has old radio shows free for downloading, amongst which are a...
Dave
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Mar 9, 2008
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10686
I don't know if this has ever been discussed here, but this evening I discovered a website that has old radio shows free for downloading, amongst which are a...
Dave
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Mar 9, 2008
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Hi Dave and thank you for the link. I believe this was brought up but it was a while ago--several years at least and I seem to recall that the links we had...
beden
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Mar 9, 2008
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beth i din't know lux did that show.i have some of the lux radio but not certain if that lshow is one of them.but i would be interested in tracking down a copy...
Bronwyn Tindall
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Mar 9, 2008
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That's cool! I knew about the Michael Redgrave version ( http://www.otrcat.com/horatio-hornblower-p-1392.html ), which is very enjoyable, but not this one....
Kevin W. Parker
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Mar 9, 2008
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Dave Bennett Aldergrove, BC "I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through...
Dave
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Mar 10, 2008
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... It sounds like it might be the '70s BBC production. I remember hearing a few of them at the time. -- Martinus Scriblerus scripsit ex 50º 21' N, 4º41' W...
Martinus Scriblerus
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Mar 10, 2008
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I found a book by Adam Hardy (a pseudonym, I suspect) in the Fox series. ANyone know anything about this series? - Duane Spurlock www.pulprack.com Changes in...
Duane Spurlock
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Mar 15, 2008
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... Adam Hardy was the pseudonym of Kenneth Bulmer. I knew his work mostly as a science fiction writer. See:...
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