Conspiracy of Words - Stories and other writing by Ben Thurley

woodblock print of a boat

30 January 1790 – Testing of the first specialist lifeboat on the River Tyne

Spiders

Never meet your heroes

Book Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Millipedes

Kendall Jenner hands a can of Pepsi

May 3 1963 – police in Birmingham, Alabama use violence against peaceful civil rights protesters

The martyrdom of Saint Leodegar

October 2 678: Death of Saint Leodegar

New Jersey Postcard

October 1 1869: Austria issues the world’s first picture postcard

Fresco of St John Chrysostom

September 13 – Feast of St John Chrysostom

Regret

Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

4 March 1678 – Birth of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

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