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Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."
This is a grandmothers chat to her grandchildren. It is both historical and biographical. It is historical in following early settlers into good times and then through The Great Depression, World War 11 and building the foundation of the 21st Century. It is biographical as it shares a family story of love, laughter and tears, It includes children growing through their teens into adulthood and marriage. There are pet stories and even a ghost story. Whether you are a grandparent, parent, or in your teens, you will relate many of your own life experiences to those that are part of my familys history, love and heritage.
When Pope Benedicts butler began leaking secret Vatican documents to an Italian journalist he was motivated by a desire to save the Catholic church from what he saw as a mounting tide of corruption. Among the issues he felt should be brought to the attention of the pope and the public were the roles of freemasonry and the secret services in Vatican affairs, and the mysterious disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl, Emanuela Orlandi. The Orlandi affair ties the present travails of the papacy to the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and the death in London of its chairman, Roberto Calvi. The banker found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge was caught in a web of Cold War intrigue, from which the Vatican is...