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Posted by Marionville

Last summer I at last fulfilled a longtime wish to visit the Norwegian fjords, several previous plans had to be scrapped for a variety of different reasons. At Geirangerfjord we visited a wooden octagonal church set at the head of the fjord on a ...

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Conservative Bashers And Progressive Pushers

Nov 19, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by backtobasics

When your wife or daughter dies from pregnancy complications at least gas will be cheap to go to her funeral and you saved 10 cents on eggs.

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World Music

Nov 10, 2024Nov 2024

Posted by Marionville

On Remembrance Sunday the saddest Scottish song ever written, originally as a bagpipe lament after the Scots’ defeat by England in 1513 at Flodden Field . Jean Elliot added words, written in the Scots dialect…The Floo’ers O’ the Forest (are ...

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British Music and Comedy

Oct 25, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by rogerbenham

Handel - Saul Oratorio HWV 53, Funeral March (Fischer-Dieskau, reference recording: N.Harnoncourt)

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World Music

Oct 22, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by Marionville

Johnny Hallyday was a huge rock star of French music…an iconic figure whose funeral in 2017 brought 1 million people onto the streets of Paris to mourn his passing. Here, filmed in and around Libreville, Gabon in West Africa in 1987 he was teamed...

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Desert Island Discs

Oct 17, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by rogerbenham

Princess Diana's Funeral: Verdi Requiem, performed by Lynne Dawson

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British Music and Comedy

Oct 17, 2024Oct 2024

Posted by rogerbenham

Elton John - Candle in the Wind/Goodbye England's Rose (Live at Princess Diana's Funeral - 1997) Princess Diana's Funeral Part 17: Earl Spencer's Tribute Guide Me, oh thou Greate - funeral Lady Diana ...

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