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The Rewards of ‘Patience’

By Clay Lane

How appropriate that the comic opera ‘Patience’ should introduce the world to the results of thirty years of labour.

Local boy Joseph Swan (1828-1914) worked for his brother-in-law in the pharmaceutical firm of Mawson, Swan and Morgan in Newcastle. He can claim to be one of the architects of modern living.

Posted November 8 2015

1490

Jason and the Golden Fleece

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A political rival sends Jason on a hopeless errand, to fetch the golden fleece.

Jason has been denied the crown of Iolcus which is his by right. Nonetheless, he gamely agrees to win it back, by fetching the legendary golden fleece from the Kingdom of Colchis on the Black Sea.

Posted November 7 2015

1491

Perseus and the Gorgon

By Clay Lane

When Polydectes, King of Seriphos, sent Perseus to get the Gorgon’s head, he hoped the boy would never come back.

Polydectes, King of Seriphos, sent Perseus to get the vile Gorgon’s head, thinking it was a hopeless errand that would lead to the boy’s death.

Posted November 7 2015

1492

Phrixus and the Golden Fleece

By Clay Lane

Long before Jason came to claim it, the golden fleece had already saved a boy’s life.

King Athamas’s first wife was the cloud-goddess Nephele, but she grew restless and left him. His choice of Ino as her successor proved even more disastrous.

Posted November 7 2015

1493

The Anglo-Zanzibar War

By Clay Lane

It lasted barely forty minutes, but it brought slavery to an end in the little island territory.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War on the 27th of August 1896 is the shortest in British history, but to the people of Zanzibar it meant everything.

Posted November 5 2015

1494

Armistice Day

By Clay Lane

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the end of the First World War on the 11th of November, 1918.

Armistice Day is an annual commemoration of the end of the First World War in 1918. Public ceremonies are kept on the nearest Sunday, which is now renamed Remembrance Sunday in recognition of other conflicts.

Posted November 5 2015

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