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A Chinese empire?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/11/2017
» As a youngster in the Big Apple during the Great Depression, I recall men with billboard signs with "The world is coming to an end -- REPENT". The people they passed on the streets shrugged them off. l didn't fully understand what it meant, but I knew that threats aren't to be taken lightly.
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Indian pirates
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/10/2017
» Pirates have been around as long as people travelled and traded by sea. A young Julius Caesar was among their prey two millennia ago. The fledgling US Navy pulverised those on the Barbary Coast two centuries ago. Still the pirates persevere -- from the Somali variety to those in the Pacific.
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Sherlock Holmes is back
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/09/2016
» Yank Bonnie MacBird who pens and edits Hollywood films and gives courses at UCLA in creative writing, is obsessed by Sherlock Holmes. She has not only read and re-read the books numerous times, but researched their author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Imitating his style, it was only a matter of time before she tried her hand at it.
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Pulls no punches
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/07/2016
» In the States, its sizeable police forces notwithstanding, millions of people buy guns, often giving the same reason that they don't feel safe without them. For all the miscreants in prison, there are many more at large. The cops are doing the best they can but are hamstrung by rules and regulations.
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Beware the internet
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 10/08/2015
» With 7 billion fellow humans on the planet we tend to keep our family, friends and acquaintances in very small circles. The rest we ignore as much as possible. Classmates and colleagues are temporary. Instead of loving our neighbours, we keep one another at arm's length.
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A gay first lady
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/01/2014
» People in every social, economic and political sphere share a fondness for rumours. True or not, they spread like wildfire. Men, women, children are fair game. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquaintances are embarrassed, reputations tarnished, careers ruined. The more they are denied, the more they are believed.
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For Dog Lovers
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/04/2013
» Dogs were domesticated in ancient times, archaeologists, historians and cave drawings agree. They were bred for different purposes, not least racing, and also for protection, to round up livestock, hunt foxes, pull sleighs, fight one another.
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Was it necessary?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/04/2013
» Films about Prisoner of War camps, usually with the note that they are based on true stories, are invariably filled with dramatic licence to spice them up. It is the dramatic licence audiences most remember. Steve McQueen's motorcycle chase in The Great Escape, William Holden ducking out of the barracks in Stalag 17, Robert De Niro playing Russian roulette in The Deer Hunter.
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Terrorist or informer?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 19/11/2012
» I first heard the term as a child when my parents took me to see the John Ford movie, The Informer. Victor McLaglen played Gypo Nolan who, for 50, betrays his fugitive friend to the British. McLaglen and hangers on soon drink down the reward and he regrets his act, but it's too late.
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