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BBC Pidgin: This Is Not A Joke

A new language service for digital platforms in English-based Pidgin for West and Central Africa has been launched by the BBC World Service. Pidgin is one of the most widely-spoken languages across the region, even…

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Admiral Cockburn & Napoleon

An excerpt from Napoleon and St. Helena, 1815-1816, by Roger Morriss, describing Admiral George Cockburn sailing Napoleon to exile to the island of St. Helena. Ancestor of the AVA's late and great Alexander Cockburn, Admiral…

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The Women’s Petition Against Coffee

-- Author(s) Anonymous, London, 1647 To the Right Honorable the Keepers of the Liberties of Venus; The Worshipful Court of Female-Assistants, &c. The Humble Petition and Address of several Thousands of Buxome Good-Women, Languishing in…

Nauseous Puddle Water

From: The Women’s Petition Against Coffee —Anonymously published pamphlet (1647).       Our men in former ages were justly esteemed the ablest performers in Christendom, but to our unspeakable grief, we find of late a very…

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