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St James's Cemetery - A history of the cemetery.
Liverpool's Historic Canning Area - Georgian terraces and squares, maps, photos, historical illustrations, aerial shots, a pub guide and a 3-D model of the area.
Liverpool 2007 - Celebrating the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's founding charter. Includes articles and links relating to the city's history.
Liverpool: A History of Struggle - Biographies, articles and interviews featuring some of the radical individuals from Liverpool's past.
Liverpool Nautical Research Society - The society records the interesting historical aspects of Merseyside shipping. Site provides brief details on its work and a contact address.
Jack Lindo - Site of a former soldier from Liverpool, who fought in Burma during the Second World War. Information about his upbringing, service history, reunions, and book.
Spartacus Educational: Liverpool - Brief account of the growth of Liverpool, with contemporary quotations.
Harry Ainscough's Liverpool - Photographs of the city taken between 1966 and 1968.
The Liverpool Overhead Railway - Photos from 1954, showing the stations, structure and car sheds of the now dismantled railway. With commentary.
Mike Royden's Local History Pages - Local history articles, plus a history bulletin board and information about courses.
Liverpool Before 1900 - Includes a short essay describing the growth of the city, a collection of sea shanties mentioning Liverpool, information about famous locals, and a list of ships associated with the city from the late 17th to early 20th centuries.
History of Liverpool - Historical maps of the city, with commentary.
Merseyside Maritime Museum - Telling the story of Liverpool's seafaring heritage and the merchant navy. Information about the collections and exhibitions, the slave trade, and the Battle of the Atlantic.
Museum of Liverpool Life - Celebrating the people of Liverpool. Includes details about exhibitions, articles on historical personalities, community projects, and visitor information.
BBC Liverpool: Local History - Articles, personal recollections, and audio and video footage covering local street names, characters, landmarks and language. Also includes a guide to help you get started researching local history.
Local Histories: A Brief History of Liverpool - A concise history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Mersey Light-vessel Preservation Society - Charity aiming to restore the light-vessel "Planet" formerly stationed at the Mersey Bar. Includes a brief history of the ship, news, information about how you can help, and sales of maritime history products.
Liverpool History Society - Includes articles, information about meetings and publications, and links.
Discovering Historic Wavertree - A guide to the Wavertree district of Liverpool, including information on its history and landmarks.
Old Liverpool Newspapers Online - Transcriptions from Liverpool Mercury newspapers dated 1811-34, including marriages, obituaries, shipping records and articles.
PortCities: Liverpool - Home page for the Mersey Gateway Project, aiming to create an online illustrated history of the port of Liverpool.
Liverpool History Online - Historical photos, drawings, paintings and maps, with commentary.
Diduknow.info - Local and global history activities from National Museums Liverpool, featuring items from their collections.
Owen Road Buildings - Photos and information about these tenements in Kirkdale.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) History Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. -- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ History "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. -- Terry Cohen Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Man and wife make one fool. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) History "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) History He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) History Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody History Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager History Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain History Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) History "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers. -- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. History Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! History Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. History "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano History The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing History Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) History "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor History The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin History More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. -- Henry B. Adams When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster History It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers History Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B History Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad History Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci History
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