2011-10-06

mcgillianaire: (Changing Guard London)
2011-10-06 09:15 am
mcgillianaire: (Cricket Stumps)
2011-10-06 09:45 am

RIP Graham Dilley (18 May 1959 – 5 October 2011)

Two videos to remember the former English Test fast bowler.



mcgillianaire: (Royal Coat of Arms)
2011-10-06 02:25 pm

Stalwart

Late 14th-century, Scottish variant of Old English stælwierðe "good, serviceable," probably a contracted compound of staðol "foundation, support" (from Proto-Germanic *stathlaz) + wierðe "good, excellent, worthy" (see worth). Another theory traces the first element of stælwierðe to Old English stæl "place," from Proto-Germanic *stælaz. In U.S. political history, applied 1877 by Blaine to Republicans who refused to give up their hostility to and distrust of the South.