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One my my favorite Masterpiece Theater shows comes from this period - The Duchess of Duke Street. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Samsara - Indeed it is! Though I'm now sitting here with a mental challenge. I'm wondering if I could find an even earlier hacker. After all, we have all of those years of telegraphy to explore. Surely someone hacked that.

Spirit of RS - Maskelyne does seem very ahead of his time. That's why I couldn't resist all of the Lulzsec mentions, because this is precisely their modus operandi. It's certainly AntiSec, so I could have crow-barred Anonymous into there too.

Maskelyne was furious with Marconi, so to my mind there was a strong element of vengeance here. But Marconi was standing in the way of anyone developing anything similar, when he was himself standing on the shoulders of the same giants as everyone else. It was merely a case of who could get to the patent office fastest.

Marconi did go so much further though. He could see where this was all leading, so patented against everything he could see being a future invention/development.

I'm glad that you enjoyed reading it.

Thanks both for your comments.

WendyFinn - Thank you very much. :D That's a good debate. Living upstairs means dying of boredom. Living downstairs means working yourself into utter exhaustion, with every minute of your day accounted for. It's a tough call and I don't think I'd have liked either!

Thanks for your comment. :)

2uesday - A very tough time for those who weren't rich, which is why this is the era of all those movements aimed at social mobility and equality. We were still a long way off either coming true, but things really sped up in Edwardian times.

So many of that generation really did live in fear of the workhouse, with good reason. My Nan was born in 1915, so she was a late Edwardian baby (if we're taking this until 1919). As late as 1997, when she died, she was terrified of our local hospital. Back in the day, it had been the workhouse. The purpose of it just shifted with National Health.

Thank you for your comment.

I don't know. The soap opera sounded quite interesting too!

You know me so well. :) And no, there will be plenty more human rights articles coming up too. I like to mix and match my interests here.

Thanks for commenting. <3

Angel, You have made the right decision. I taught learning disabled children for many years and that's what my MA is in. I heard so many times from parents "I'm not giving my child drugs. I'm trying to teach him not to take drugs." The harsh reality is that their child will be self medicating as soon as they reach adolescence if they don't give them the treatment they need. Parents need to open their minds and listen to their child's doctor and educate themselves as much as possible on the subject. I hate it when I hear on the news that doctors are over prescribing medication. That does so much damage. Uneducated, unsophisticated parents take that as gospel. Journalists need to stick to journalism and stay out of medicine unless they educate themselves on the subject. When your children become adults, they will have the cognition to make good decisions about their disorder, because you're teaching them that education is the way.

I am not familiar with the show. After watching the video I can say Fresh Beat Band offers good fun and now I want a jacket for myself too!
;)

Andersen is really one of a kind. I am not a fan of every story he wrote, but he certainly made some (o.k., many) true diamonds:)

Thanks katiem2 for having a visit. Zombies are on my mind from last 2 months. I have always been a great fan of vampires and werewolves but very recently my interest has grown more into zombies, credited to the zombies movies, which made me think about how would I have reacted to such an devastating event of undead coming back to life to eat us.
Zombie land was such an awesome movie, perhaps because I always imagined about reacting to zombies just as the main character Columbus did with his own set of rules.

Very cool photographers business cards, better than the average cards I've seen.

I know, I know. I just had to drop my jaw when I have seen that price. :O
Luckily we have you, and art lover who bring art to common people.
Who knows, maybe some day Zazzle pays off and we become rich. Mayeb some day I will have have that original painting. Hmmm... yeah. :)

What a powerful life altering moment to consider. I believe it is a very real goal to live to ones fullest most rewarding possibilities.

Sounds amazing, I so hope you do. I've gotten as far as uploading 120 photographs I've taken just with Zazzle products in mind. I'd love to take a stab at adding drawings, I love drawing and my daughter is insanely talented at drawing. I'll keep an eye on your tutorials...

They say it is the best one! I prefer food. Now, smell that food with coffee! :)