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After tasting 527 beers, an amateur beer snob offers this advice.

An amateur beer snob provides the “R” chapter from his ebook, “An Amateur Beer Snob’s Guide to Beer,” soon available on the Amazon Kindle and online at Smashwords.

A fairly short history of Napoleon Bonaparte, and also his legacy.

As early as 1895 the two mystics published drawings of their vision of hydrogen atoms, the simplest that exist in nature. The pair saw the atom as a transparent, egg-shaped body that contained six smaller bodies in rotation. And inside each of the smaller bodies were three even smaller, heart shaped particles. Leadbeater and Besant called them the “ultimate physical atoms,” and said they were joined together by “lines of force”

The dream was so vivid that, on walking, the rector felt compelled to build a real-life version of the maze he had seen. The newly constructed maze was modeled on a set of religious carvings in the village church and the design was symbolic. The winding pathways represented the journey of life. The wrong turnings and culs-de-sac symbolized the sins that people commit before death, obstacles on the way to paradise and heaven.

All this was consistent with Comyns Beaumont’s lifelong belief in the innate superiority of all things British. His career as a journalist had been dogged by his frustration with newspaper owners and editors who, he believed, failed to represent British interests adequately. His new theory of history restored the balance, to his satisfaction at least – and to the amazement and entertainment of all those who read his books.

Stella Horrocks takes dictation from one of the 300 spirits with whom she claims to be in contact. Among the entries in her unique diary, she says, is the work of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.The output of this “secretary to the spirits” is astonishing: from her pen have come letters, speeches, diaries, memoirs, plays, and books, each in a different handwriting. So far Stella has failed to find a publisher that is willing to take any of the enormous quantity of writings she has amassed. She finds their attitude discouraging. “I am not in it for the money,” she says. “I’d just like to see these works reach a wider public”.

Although George Washington himself congratulated Hanson, stating that he held the “most important seat in the United States,” Hanson’s role, and that of the seven men who followed him, was to preside over Congress. He lacked the executive powers of the Constitution would invest in Washington and his successors, and he was powerless to enforce the measures of Congress, which were often ignored by the individual states…By 1786 the political weaknesses of the Articles were identified, and in 1789 the new Continental Congress had ruled the newly united states, and John Hanson, largely forgotten today, had the honor of being its first president.

Nicholas Winston met with the surviving children he rescued from the Nazi’s 70 years ago.

Neville Heath, was a vicious and amoral killer of the immediate post-war period, less well known than his more celebrated contemporaries John Reginald Halliday Christie of 10 Rillington Place and John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer, he nevertheless has a well-merited place in the annals of British crime.