#WritersWednesday: July 18

Leonard Cohen, a Great Lyricist “No wonder,” wrote Simon Shama in his prologue to a monograph on Leonard Cohen in the Guardian’s series “Great Lyricists”, “no wonder, then, that he had to struggle for attention in the golden age of the screamers, Janis’s ecstatic rasp, Hendrix’s maddened guitar, Lennon’s glottal roar, even Dylan’s adenoidal faux-country all made sounds through which their lyrical inventions had to fight for air, and if not…

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#WritersWednesday: July 25

A hero for our time: Rosa Luxemburg She was a beautiful and intelligent woman, who ended her life in the violent and extreme world born from the chaos and massacres of the first world war. A revolutionary, she was also a sharp and lucid critique of the rising bolshevik dictatorship in Russia. Born in 1871 in Zanosc, in the Polish area of Russia, “at sixteen, when she graduated at the top of her class from the girls' gymnasium in Warsaw, she…

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#WritersWednesday: August 1st

Yukio Mishima, the last Samurai He was one of the most gifted and original writers of his generation, straddling western modernity and, at the same time, rooted in the heroic traditions of his country, Japan. His death, following the samurai ritual of the seppuku, confirmed his uniqueness, in what he saw as an age of cowardice and pretence. Dying by his sword may have been his finest hour.

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#WritersWednesday: August 8

Évariste Galois He is one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century, perhaps of all times. A founding father of modern Group Theory - a branch of algebra with immense applications in all sciences, theoretical and applied -he’s the inventor of Galois Theory, the body of theorems that bears his name, the theoretical basis for the branch of pure mathematics called…

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#WritersWednesday: August 15

Henri de Navarre, the good King The son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne de Navarre, prince du sang - a natural heir to the Kings of France - he was born in 1553 in a country racked by religious wars. In 1572 he became King of Navarre at the death of his mother Jeanne d’Albret. Leader of the Huguenot party and their military commander, in 1589, at the death of the childless Henri III, he abjured his protestant faith to ascend the throne.

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#WritersWednesday: August 29, An Auction

The small port of Sovetskaya Gavan’ has little to attract attention from anyone but the most informed observer of the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet, or Russian Far-East history. For it is an important outpost and harbour for the supply of the Fleet. The bay of Khadzi was only discovered in 1853, the year Lt. Nikolay Boshnyak - its discoverer on behalf of the Czar - became the commander of the settlement that was to become…

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#WritersWednesday: September 5 – Julian’s summer: Mother and Son

 He admired Sarah for her resilience, her ability to work long hours, to keep a clear mind, to  be the long haul woman she was. Travelling made him broody: strange dreams came to him at night, projects he never worked on, women he had never met, but yet look familiar to him, men who appeared to have a grudge for unknown or forgotten reasons.

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#WritersWednesday: September 12 – The Greatest Longing

Inspired by Wednesday Writing Prompt, courtesy Amanda L. Webster (@missmandy76) The Greatest Longing He was away for a few days, the first time in nearly a year that they were apart for more than a few hours. On the morning he left she drove him to the airport: “I’ll be back in a sec…” he said to her, holding her high in his arms, his eyes locked into hers.

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#WritersWednesday: September 26 – Endings

In memory of Sophie and Hans Scholl He says: We will not disappear as others have done: our souls are strong, our minds clear, our wills steeled against the evils: we shall perdure. She says: My love, I will be with you to the end, the Enemy cannot steal our love, for us there will be no ending, only a change in our appearance… As the swords fall glimmer of ice immortal angels

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#WritersWednesday: October 3 – He’s always close, and he knows I know

He turns up in the most unexpected places, always in a different disguise, sometimes charming, sometimes hideous: but I have never failed to recognise him. When I finally meet my Maker, I will ask Him how it is that that creature can be left free to roam and spy on people at will, and I really look forward to His answer - Him willing.

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