Vice is a fact of life, wrote Pope, and God can even bring good out of it;
but vice is never a virtue and in tackling vice together we make our society stronger.
Artist Benjamin Robert Haydon laments the passing of Lord Egremont,
whose generosity and good judgment reached far beyond his support for struggling artists.
The fort at Budge Budge near Calcutta proved stubborn against the
massed artillery of the East India Company, but a tipsy seaman took it all by himself.