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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Paul Lyons [mailto:paul@pikle.co.uk]
<BR><B>Sent:</B> March 25, 2009 6:33 AM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Great stories this
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<DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana color=#400080><B>Great stories
this month at The Diary Junction Blog</B></FONT></DIV>
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color=#400080><B><BR></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana color=#400080><B><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#400080><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Verdana><B>I hope you find them well-written, original, and interesting,
and that, therefore, you'll want to advise your own readers/website visitors
about the </B></FONT></FONT><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#400080><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana><B><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#400080><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana><B>The Diary Junction
Blog</B></FONT></FONT></A> and/or </B></FONT></FONT><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#400080><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Verdana><B><A href="http://www.pikle.co.uk/diaryjunction.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#400080><FONT class=Apple-style-span
face=Verdana><B>The Diary Junction</B></FONT></FONT></A>. (These are
non-commercial websites, entirely free of
advertising.)</B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></DIV>
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color=#400080><B><BR></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana color=#400080><B><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: 19px"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/lennon-and-linda-mccartney.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Lennon and Linda McCartney</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - did they have a one-night
stand?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></B></FONT></DIV>
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class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(51,51,51); LINE-HEIGHT: 19px">
<UL class=posts
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; LIST-STYLE-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; LIST-STYLE-TYPE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px">
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style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/owl-in-desert.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>An owl in the desert</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - Anne Clifford, a lady of
court in the 17th century, battled for years against her father's decision to
leave the family estate to his brother rather than to her</FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/of-war-and-of-sowing.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Of war and of sowing</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"> - on
the reissuing of the original three volumes of Harold Nicolson's diaries
</SPAN></FONT>
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style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/chamberlains-diary-letters.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Chamberlain’s diary
letters</FONT></A><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#800040> - on whether Neville Chamberlain's letters to his sisters
can be considered as a diary</FONT></SPAN>
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style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/as-big-as-west.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>As big as the West</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - on Edward Abbey, the
controversial American writer who married five times</FONT></SPAN>
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style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/steller-on-bering-island.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Steller on Bering Island</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - the discovery of Alaska and
plenty of fauna</FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/rotten-eggs-in-peking.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Rotten eggs in Peking</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - about Derk Bodde, an eminent
sinologist, and the communist revolution</FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/dimaggios-diary-33-word.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>DiMaggio’s diary - $33 a
word</FONT></A><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#800040> - about how a famous baseball player's diaries are being
sold page by page</FONT></SPAN>
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style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; LINE-HEIGHT: 19px"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/wallenberg-curse.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>The Wallenberg curse</FONT></A><SPAN
class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#800040> - on the Swedish diplomat that
disappeared in Hungary in 1945, and his father's
diary</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
<LI
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/woolf-on-rinderpest-and-salt.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>Woolf on rinderpest and
salt</FONT></A><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#800040> - about Leonard Woolf's years in Sri Lanka</FONT></SPAN>
<LI
style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; LIST-STYLE: none none outside; PADDING-LEFT: 1.3em; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; MARGIN: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: -15px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: initial"><A
href="http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/finding-of-tutankhamun.html"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#004080>The finding of
Tutankhamun</FONT></A><SPAN class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#800040> - on Howard Carter's famous discovery<SPAN
class=Apple-style-span
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(64,0,128)"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><FONT
class=Apple-style-span color=#400080><B>Diarists and diaries are the main focus
of every story. I always refer to original sources, provide links, and try
to quote actual diary texts.</B></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#400080><B>Kind regards</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span face=Verdana><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#400080><B>Paul</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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