Monday 18 April 2022

Famous Ambulance Drivers of WWI

Walt Disney (notice the cartoon he has drawn)
1. E E Cummings (writer) - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
2. Jerome K Jerome (writer) - French Army ambulance driver
3. W Somerset Maugham (writer) - volunteer British Red Cross ambulance corps
4. Maurice Ravel (composer) - volunteer ambulance driver or truck driver
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer) - Royal Army Medical Corps
6. Jean Cocteau (dramatist and filmmaker )
7. Stafford Cripps (politician)
8. Walt Disney (Animator and film producer) - volunteer American Red Cross, but served after the armistice ending WWI was signed.
9. Ernest Hemingway (writer)  - volunteer American Field Service
10. John Masefield (writer) - served as hospital orderly in British hospital for French soldiers in France

Monday 11 April 2022

Benjamin Franklin Inventions



1. The lightning rod
2. Bifocals
3. The glass armonica
4. The Franklin stove
5. The library stepstool, a chair whose seat could be lifted and folded down to make a short ladder.
(Also a mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves)
6. The rocking chair
7. The writing chair
8. The odometer
9. A pulley system that enabled him to lock and unlock his bedroom door from his bed
10. The flexible urinary catheter.

Wednesday 6 April 2022

Albums of Bob Dylan Material


  1. Any Day Now Joan Baez 1968
  2. Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2007
  3. Hollies Sing Dylan The Hollies 1969
  4. Masters of War Mountain 2007
  5. Portraits of Bob Dylan Steve Howe 1999
  6. Lo & Behold Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint 2007
  7. Judy Collins Sings Dylan: Just Like a Woman Judy Collins 1993
  8. A Tree With Roots - Fairport Convention & Friends And The Songs Of Bob Dylan Fairport Convention 2018
  9. The Byrds Play Dylan The Byrds 1979 and 2002 (Compilations)
  10. Postcards of the Hanging Grateful Dead 2002 (Live compilation)

Welsh People born outside Wales



  1. David Lloyd-George politician (Manchester)
  2. Dai Jones Llanilar TV presenter (London)
  3. Robert Earnshaw footballer (Zambia)
  4. Ashley Williams footballer (Germany)
  5. Alexander Cordell [pen name of George Alexander Graber] author (Sri Lanka)
  6. Saunders Lewis playwright and campaigner (Wallasey)
  7. George North rugby player (King's Lynn)
  8. Jonathan "Fox" Davies rugny player (Solihull)
  9. Windsor Davies actor (London)
  10. Helen Morgan model (Walsall)

Izzard Words

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