Simon Holmes

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Letter to America

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 30, 2010, 6:49 am
An open letter to all right minded Americans who feel that we are in a period of uncertainty as to the future of the English Speaking Peoples. Ever since Eisenhower, America has been pushing Britain to form closer ties with mainland Europe, a position that some 70% of the population of this island d...
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A Tribute to Charlie Simpson

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 26, 2010, 10:47 am
Wherever you live in the World, you cannot have missed the heart rending stories coming out of Haiti, since the devastating earthquake hit that poor country. Over 100,000 deaths and many thousands of people homeless and hungry. The sheer lack of infrastructure, makes the task of helping the populati...
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Akhenaten

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 25, 2010, 10:54 am
No doubt you are all familiar with the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Archaeology only knew this king as a myth, until excavations undertaken by Flinders Petrie, the great British Archaeologist in the nineteenth century at Amama, uncovered evidence of his existence. We a...
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Triumph

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 23, 2010, 11:12 am
In the nineteen sixties, the British motorcycle industry was utterly decimated by four Japanese companies.Suzuki, Kawasaki, Honda and Yamaha. They offered the customer a cost effective machine, that was well engineered and reliable. The great names of British motorcycling disappeared one by one. BSA...
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Our Tolerance Tested

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 22, 2010, 10:12 am
We hear much about the abuse of Western power and the exploitation of Muslim communities around the World. Whilst one must accept that an accord should be arranged between the Palestinians and the Israelis and indeed this is in the interest of us all, it should also be remembered that Islam is the n...
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The Advancement of Civilisation

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 21, 2010, 9:45 am
In 1836, in the County of Yorkshire, was born a man by the name of Thomas Crapper. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed as a plumber to a firm in London. Having learnt his craft, he set up a company in Robert Street, Chelsea, to provide and install, bathroom fittings. Whilst Thomas did not inve...
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Northumberland

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 19, 2010, 9:20 am
Today, I thought I would post an item on the county where I live. Northumberland is one of England's largest counties and borders that peninsular to the North of England, commonly referred to as Scotland. It is one of the least populated areas of England, with a total population of around 300,000 ha...
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Internet Dad

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 18, 2010, 1:26 pm
My regular readers will know that I am a father and indeed a grandfather. Being part of the Global Community and spending time reviewing other peoples blogs and websites, I have run across a distressing element within the internetosphere! What I mean by this, is the large number of young people who ...
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What is to be done?

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 18, 2010, 11:35 am
Every time you pick up a newspaper or switch on the television, you are confronted with some form of bad news. Currently and rightly so, the news is full of the appalling tragedy taking place in that luckless country, Haiti. President Obama, before the current disaster, had put this country near the...
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Monoatomic Gold

Simon Holmes posted an article on - Jan 16, 2010, 10:28 am
I am an avid explorer of the internet, as no doubt many of you are as well, I have run across absolutely loads of websites relating to a substance called Monoatomic Gold. Initially these sites sound incredibly interesting, but me, being me,I like to check things out. I found that without exception ...
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