Originally posted by Caliban
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Is 'scraping the barrel' a clue? 
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no (at least it wasn't meant to be )
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Zuleika?Comment
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Ah... why?Originally posted by antongould View Post
(I've been learning so much about Benjamin and Aretha Franklin. A lovely couple...
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"...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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Originally posted by antongould View Post
nice one anton - one down, two to go
the spelling changes after Zule
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Zuleima and Zulema?Comment
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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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I was just letting you know you had picked the right FranklinOriginally posted by Caliban View Post ... I found nothing! Comment
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Originally posted by mercia View Post 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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Zuleima a lost symphonic ode ( by wor Claude?)
Zulema Cusseaux A backing singer for Rumpole's Aretha
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yep, Mr Debussy, circ. 1885-6Originally posted by antongould View Post
I've (appropriately) lost the link giving details of this
Zuleika Dobson by Beerbohm
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Quite brilliant on your part mercia to get a question out of Z at all never mind a good 'un!Comment
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I'd forgotten how stressful setting AA questions was............................so an, hopefully very quick, A connected by
The Cobblers
Good Queen Thatcher in reverse
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