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How to get rich
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/02/2018
» During the Great Depression in the Big Apple, one of the games we played was choosing our role model among the comic strip heroes we all read. Dick Tracy, Superman and Batman got most voted. They scoffed when I picked Daddy Warbucks, the billionaire who adopted Little Orphan Annie. (“Yeah, how many bad men did he catch?”)
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Hey presto
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/02/2016
» In every category there's a person or group recognised as the best in their field of endeavour. Not all people agree with the judges' choice. Arguments invariably ensue over, "This award or prize goes to …..", "Are they blind or deaf? W, Y, Z was better than X by a long shot."
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Too good to be true
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 01/02/2016
» Yank oceanographer Clive Cussler, on his own and with co-authors, has been penning adventure stories for decades -- all about the sea, and dry land to an extent. In his own boat, the author employs old maps to search for centuries-sunk ships. He's not a treasure-hunter, handing over the doubloons and other items he stumbles across to the proper authorities.
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The Cold War continues today
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/11/2015
» World War I ended in 1918. World War II ended in 1945. No argument there. The Cold War ended in 1989. No agreement there. Some pundits accept it. Others don't. According to the negatives, the Cold War is still going on, with and without communism. It continues, hot and heavy, between Russia and the US.
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A lawyer's dream
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 27/07/2015
» The person many historians and authors of historical fiction find most fascinating to write about is England's 16th-century monarch Henry VIII. His hope for a male heir led him to have six wives, execute two of them and change the religion of the country.
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The illegal amendment
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 13/07/2015
» Like his previous books, The Patriot Threat is historical fiction with real and imaginary characters. Where it differs is in its economics emphasis. There are lots of facts and figures and jumps in American history, from the 18th century to the present.
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It's elementary
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 29/06/2015
» It began in the US with Edgar Alan Poe in the mid-19th century and picked up in the UK by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Crime fiction caught on and has since spread to the rest of the world. In the 21st century every country, nearly every city, features at least one literary sleuth.
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Painful memories
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 08/06/2015
» We have all been in embarrassing situations, usually of our own making, and can't forget it. Fewer have been humiliated. Fewer still shamed. For those who have been, it was surely a truly traumatic experience.
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Film version awaits
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 02/02/2015
» Arriving on the literary scene in 1990, American Patricia Cornwell has penned a book every year since. Though she hasn’t a medical degree, her crime novels that focus on forensic medicine are so accurate that she’s regarded as one of the experts in the field. With the profits from her writing, she has founded forensic facilities in more than one state.
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The future is now
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 17/11/2014
» At the end of the 19th century the intelligentsia agreed that everything had been discovered and all mankind had to do was enjoy it. Needless to say they were wrong. More was to be discovered in the 20th century than in all the previous centuries. New discoveries continue to be made non-stop this century.
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