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...Thursday the Nimitz steamed into Norfolk, its home port. At the pier the crew was met by a throng of kin and well-wishers. By Saturday the carrier, checked and scrubbed, was back on regular duty; its Caribbean training cruise had been delayed just three days...
Reported by Jonathan Beaty/ Norfolk...
...wrote effortlessly anywhere-floating about the moat of a stately home in Norfolk or basking in a Hollywood mansion where, in less than a month, he turned out three short stories, one act of a play and the complete dialogue for a movie. But, as Jasen shows, that facility could be ruinous. At the beginning of World War II, Wodehouse was living in Le Touquet, where he was trapped by the German Occupation. He ended up a prisoner of war in a converted lunatic asylum. Here he composed Money in the Bank, all alone in his padded cell...
...heroism, Carney, who had been born a slave in Norfolk, became the first black to win the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...born at Park House, part of the 20,000-acre royal estate at Sandringham, in Norfolk, which the Spencer family rented from the Crown. The Spencers had run with royalty for hundreds of years, and the Earl has been equerry to both George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Diana and Charles may have met a few times when she was a child and he already a young man, but everyone is fuzzy on the details. The Spencers had the only heated pool in the vicinity, and, by the one theory of suburban living that seems to cross barriers of class...