Right you are: it was Casino.

Yes. We would need more. Wilkinson’s were very significant in eighteenth century racing, especially in North Yorkshire/Durham. But they were also, as you indicate, ridiculously scattered across the region. We need more to go on, but a connection between Harpur and Wilkinson families is not unlikely

And here’s a painting of Sir Harry Harpur with his horse, Furiband, “and groom.” The groom might be “Jockey Jack.”

www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/290362

A possible last name for “Jockey Jack” could be “Wilkinson.” This appeared in a 1785 account of the Durham races.

Ahh yes! So a later Harry Harpur than the one a century earlier, though certainly a descendant. It would be great to find out more about Jockey Jacky.

I devoted my career to these activities. It’s impossible—even for AI—to “quickly pontificate.”

Allow me to explain why . . .

Absolutely nothing of which I am aware.

There is a window—one that I think is rapidly closing—in which University conferences can stand up for higher education.

But it has to be done at the conference level, not by individual institutions; and it must be done soon because so many university administrations are already compromised.

For anyone interested in making a small independent film, this one scripts itself: the initial violent hook that draws the viewer into a quiet revelation of the deeper violence woven into the system, culminating in the release that feels like both a liberation and a call for reform.

Who runs a country with a weasel on his head like he’s performing a nightclub routine?
President Ferrettop.

Fussy lepidopterists often iron butterflies.

Violets are everywhere.

I do think that someone could write an extraordinary history of the last century in Paris for children, as seen through the eyes of a tortoise who arrived there in 1923. 2/2

www.theguardian.com/world/2009/d...

Of course, I never got to meet Zarafa, but one of the pleasures of my life was a visit to the Jardin des Plantes, where I did get to meet briefly Kiki.

I have meant to write about that visit several times, but other projects keep intervening. 1/

We may be entering an era where “retail politics” takes on new meaning.

“What we cannot overcome, we must undergo.” -A. Pope

Who mandate both austerity and obedience. And, like most people who gravitate to authority to hide from fear, she is likely to adamantly deny being afraid while simultaneously clinging tenaciously to her stabilizing belief. It takes a lot of patience to wean animals away from that fear. 3/3

Uncertainty leads people to overcommit to the “safe harbor” of blind loyalty to a perceived stabilizing authority. In the case of your former classmate, economic anxiety drives her back to a childish security of idealizing her father, and then projecting that onto authoritarian political leaders 2/