Mike was born in Victoria, BC and passed away at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Palliative Care Unit, after a short battle with lung cancer.
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Marilyn Colvin Davis, 80, of Lignum Virginia, passed away on Thursday, April 11, 2024 in her home. She was born October 10, 1943 in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
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Not long ago, a poem by Diane Seuss appeared in Poetry with the title, “Romantic Poet”: Article continues after advertisement.
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To mark the centenary of the completion and premiere of Elgar's Cello Concerto, cellist Raphael Wallfisch reflects upon the period and circumstances...
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The Treasure Island author's fairytales are finally to be published in one set, as he intended.
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The roll call of famous gout sufferers is long and distinguished. It includes Ben Franklin, Henry James and Karl Marx.
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Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer's block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of...
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