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  • mercia
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 8920

    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Is 'scraping the barrel' a clue?
    no (at least it wasn't meant to be )

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    • antongould
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8773

      Zuleika?

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26506

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Zuleika?
        Ah... why?

        (I've been learning so much about Benjamin and Aretha Franklin. A lovely couple... )
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by antongould View Post
          Zuleika?
          nice one anton - one down, two to go

          the spelling changes after Zule

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          • mercia
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 8920

            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Aretha Franklin

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            • antongould
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 8773

              Zuleima and Zulema?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26506

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                ... I found nothing!
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • mercia
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 8920

                  Originally posted by antongould View Post
                  Zuleima and Zulema?



                  brilliantissimo

                  I guess you should flesh it out

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    ... I found nothing!
                    I was just letting you know you had picked the right Franklin

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26506

                      Originally posted by mercia View Post
                      I was just letting you know you had picked the right Franklin
                      yes... but I'd combed her life and works already and found no 'z's .... hence my

                      .... but it sounds as if anton has scooped it

                      Can't wait to hear the Aretha connection!

                      Ages since we had one from ant.
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                        Ages since we had one from ant.

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                        • antongould
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 8773

                          Zuleima a lost symphonic ode ( by wor Claude?)
                          Zulema Cusseaux A backing singer for Rumpole's Aretha
                          Zuleika Dobson An Oxford Love Story

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by antongould View Post
                            Zuleima a lost symphonic ode ( by wor Claude?)
                            yep, Mr Debussy, circ. 1885-6
                            I've (appropriately) lost the link giving details of this

                            Zuleika Dobson by Beerbohm



                            well done Mr Gould

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                            • antongould
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8773

                              Quite brilliant on your part mercia to get a question out of Z at all never mind a good 'un!

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                              • antongould
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8773

                                I'd forgotten how stressful setting AA questions was............................so an, hopefully very quick, A connected by

                                The Cobblers
                                Good Queen Thatcher in reverse
                                W. P. Firth

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