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On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZ

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_R

npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/f

It's not often you get to see history practically halted in its tracks, but here is a rare case.
On the left is John Constable's 1821 painting, 'The Haywain', and on the right, is my picture of the same location from 200 years later. Willy Lott's House is probably the least altered part of the scene.

If you are curious about **real spies of the 17th century**, you might be interested in this interview I made with Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (director and curator of Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey and Museum).

She is a historian of spies & 17th century!

youtube.com/watch?v=4PHSUT4x6X

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DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique

#Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long #history of potentially misleading #stats. Now it looks like his #government dept is following suit.
wired.com/story/doges-dodgy-nu

#DOGE “put out some numbers, they didn’t smell good, they switched things around,” alleges Noah Goodall, an independent transportation researcher. “That screamed #Tesla. You get the feeling they’re not really interested in the #truth.”

Going through old photographs and I believe this is Raglan Castle (I tend to binge castles on my visits to Wales).

I love the evocative old stairways and doorways into bare rooms, cool, damp and dark, but once filled with warmth and wealth. There is little left but echoes and whispers of the people who once walked these well-worn steps.

It’s all good fodder for my creative writing.

#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.

Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.

She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.