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Corona just means crown. We use the word for things that have, or seem to have, a crown. There’s a corona around the sun. There’s a corona a...

It’s odd going on holiday in retirement. I mean, a break’s always a good thing to have. But being retired is like a continuous break anyway....

The King has flown the coop! Literally. Well, literally as far as flying is concerned. I understand he took a plane. He didn’t really live i...

When we last saw our gutsy Spanish Republican fighters in the French Foreign Legion, they were rather twiddling their thumbs in North Afri...

After four years of Nazi occupation, Paris was finally liberated by Allied armies on 24 August 1944. Units of the mythic French force, the ...

If you’re sightseeing around our local city, Valencia, the saddest sight you can see is an air raid shelter. I’ve visited two and there are ...

Organising events is something a great many of us have done at some time.  It might be a bring-and-buy-sale. It might be some worthy publi...

There’s a piece of doggerel most schoolkids learn by heart: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue Rather fewer people, outside Spain a...