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  • - Visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo – Excited to be heading there very soon.

    June « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • Parkes is obviously an historian, not a journalist.

    A History of Mexico by Henry Bamford Parkes 2005

  • Parkes is obviously an historian, not a journalist.

    A History of Mexico by Henry Bamford Parkes 2005

  • Loch, like Flashman, paints a most unpleasant picture of the warlord, who worked himself into a fury, storming and yelling abuse at his prisoners while his guards beat them, forced them to kneel, and rubbed Loch's face in the dirt; he called Parkes a liar, accused him of trying to humiliate the Emperor and of preparing a treacherous attack on the Chinese forces, and added "that he would teach us what it was to speak to high officers of the Celestial Empire in the manner in which they had been addressed yesterday" (i.e. at the Tang-chao meeting with Prince I).

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Loch, like Flashman, paints a most unpleasant picture of the warlord, who worked himself into a fury, storming and yelling abuse at his prisoners while his guards beat them, forced them to kneel, and rubbed Loch's face in the dirt; he called Parkes a liar, accused him of trying to humiliate the Emperor and of preparing a treacherous attack on the Chinese forces, and added "that he would teach us what it was to speak to high officers of the Celestial Empire in the manner in which they had been addressed yesterday" (i.e. at the Tang-chao meeting with Prince I).

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Maybe aim for twice just to beat 2009.) - visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo

    2010 January « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • Maybe aim for twice just to beat 2009.) - visit Tim and Zoe in Parkes and go to Western Plains Zoo

    (some of my) Goals for 2010 « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • You must visit next time you find yourself in Parkes.

    2010 June « Mad Dave and Lil 2010

  • At this Prince I went wild, spitting curses, calling Parkes a foreign cur and reptile and I don't know what, and Parkes just smiled away and said Elgin would be there, and that was that.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • At this Prince I went wild, spitting curses, calling Parkes a foreign cur and reptile and I don't know what, and Parkes just smiled away and said Elgin would be there, and that was that.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

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