Tag: British

Gary W. Lineker was a football striker. In European football, or American soccer, the team sets up the striker, who has the power and maneuverability to actually “strike” the ball into scoring position. Lineker played for several top teams in Britain and Europe. After retiring, Lineker became the host of Match of the Day (commonly […]

Angela Lansbury, the star of “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Thursday, her family announced. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family […]

A comedian does Scrooge Sir Alastair Sim was a British actor who is best known for his role as Scrooge in the Dicken’s Christmas classic, Scrooge c. 1951. It plays somewhere on television every Christmas though recently that is just via streaming. Luckily, someone put up a copy on YouTube for the rest of us. […]

The Rolling Stones’ website eponymous website, not a single word of his demise, just a full-screen photo of Charlie Watts in a pea coat, wedding band and smirk. Charlie Watts was a class act. This August, Watts age 80, said he would not join Rolling Stones for their 2021 “No Filter Tour,”  a 13-date tour […]

The First Film Sherlock Clive Brook, a popular British actor, the first to play Sherlock Holmes on film. His bearing and elocution set the stage for the popular Basil Rathbone, and even the later, much later, Benedict Cumberbatch. Thatmakes sense as his chart has an incredible preponderance of Gemini spanning the whole of the tenth […]

Thor’s Hammer exposes scandals, and clandestine behavior and how much they will affect you depends upon whether the luminaries or the Ascendant are effected. In Sir Francis Bacon’s, the man accredited with insisting upon experimentation to buttress observation and so considered the Father of Scientific Research, chart it was a deadly combination: first disloyal to […]

The story from Leo The chart from Celestiology The story Alan Leo’s Modern Astrologer reports on June 25, 1893, right after midsummer’s eve, a murder happened along the Rotherhithe docks in southwestern London.  The unfortunately woman screamed when he throat was cut, but the murderer was not apprehended.  Reading the note in the vintage magazine, […]

Our header image is William Blake’s rendition of Paradise Lost — written for the poem.

Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. — Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger […]

Sir Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon or a rising 23 Libra 19 to Alfred and Gladys Stewart. This gives him the [HS] of “druid’s oak tree” or the ability to call forth distant spirits and make it part of his own […]

Scottish Botanist Robert Brown goes to Australia It is hard to quantify the Scottish botanist Robert Brown’s contributions to botany and physics in a short essay, but he was the first British botanist to support and advocate the natural system of classification. In 1801, Brown went to Australia, landing at King George’s Sound near Albany […]

Alan Turing was born on June 23 1912 at 5:10 pm in London England. He was the son of a civil servant, and at educated a public school in England where his his genius in mathematics was apparent. Enter the machine