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Rowing Through Fire
2 June 2024 By Philip Kuepper The little town slept like a golden retrieverby the hearth-like harbor.Dawn sun turned bronze the buildingsand set light to the water.Only a ripple worried the...
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Whittock’s Costumes, Academic and Aquatic
A c.1845 print from The Microcosm of Oxford: Containing a Series of Views of the Churches, Colleges, Halls & Other Public Buildings of the University and City of Oxford by N. Whittock,...
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The Pink Palace Goes Blue?
Rishi Sunak deals with small boats. A screenshot from Yahoo News! of 3 June. 3 June 2024By Tim Koch Tim Koch avoids jokes about selling voters down the river. Since announcing that the UK General...
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A Passion for Rowing
The United Theatre in downtown Westerly, Rhode Island, which opened its door in July 2021, was the place for “rowing talks” to celebrate the Yale–Harvard Regatta which will be rowed on 8 June on the...
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Rishi Speaks
Graphic: leander.co.uk. 4 June 2024By Tim Koch Yesterday, I wondered who at Leander approved a party political election visit by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The answer, it seems, is everyone. Still,...
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Hibernian Brush Strokes Revisited
The two versions of Lady Lavery as they appeared on Irish banknotes. 5 June 2024By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe finds that John Lavery, a painter from Belfast who ran with the hares and hunted with the...
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D-Day+80: Remembering David Haig-Thomas
David Haig-Thomas (1908 – 1944) was an Eton, Lady Margaret, CUBC, Leander and Olympic oarsman, but also an adventurer, explorer, hunter, ornithologist, wildlife photographer, writer and commando. He...
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Ex-Rower Claudia Sheinbaum Takes the Helm in Mexico
Mexico’s next president – Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, a photograph from April 2024. Photo: Wikipedia 7 June 2024By Göran R BuckhornEarlier this week, Tim Koch wrote about British Prime Minister Rishi...
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2024 Boat Race Luncheon
Organizer for the Boat Race Luncheon, Leeland Cole-Chu, welcomes everyone to the CDR Merle Smith Consolidated Club at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London. 7 June 2024By Göran R BuckhornGöran...
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From Oxford to Everest – Part I
“Ganymede who was comeliest of mortal men; wherefore the gods carried him off to be Zeus’ cupbearer, for his beauty’s sake, that he might dwell among the immortals” – Homer, The Iliad, Book XX 8 June...
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From Oxford to Everest – Part II
“As he spoke Jove sent two eagles from the top of the mountain, and they flew on and on with the wind, sailing side by side in their own lordly flight.” – Homer, The Odyssey, Book II 9 June 2024By...
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Pinkos
Fake news. Following Leander Club’s recent hosting of an election press call by the Conservative Party leader, Rishi Sunak, perhaps this is one way that it could redress the balance? Original picture:...
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After Ten Years, Harvard Takes the Sexton Cup
After ten years, The Sexton Cup is in Harvard’s hands again. Photo: gocrimson,com 11 June 2024By Göran R BuckhornCharley Butt’s Varsity crew win on the Thames.Harvard won the 4-mile 1st Varsity race...
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Calm Dawns
12 June 2024 By Philip Kuepper Calm, the waterstake the rowers to heart,enfold the rowers’ shellsin the silk of waves.How smooth the moment;how impossibly smooth.Oars glide through the silk,the river...
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Record Entries to the 2024 Henley Women’s Regatta
“We are absolutely delighted to receive yet another record entry for Henley Women’s Regatta,” says HWR chairman Naomi Ashcroft. Picture: British Rowing 13 June 2024By Göran R Buckhorn This article is...
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Pocock Plaque Approved
The actual George Pocock Plaque in Thomas Wigley’s study. 14 June 2024By Göran R Buckhorn Good news comes from England. Thomas Wigley who has worked hard to get a so-called blue plaque up on the wall...
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The Boat Race: Only 300 Days To Go
Image: theboatrace.org 15 June 2014By Tim KochNews from the Boat Race Company: On Sunday, 13th April 2025, Oxford and Cambridge will return to the famous Championship Course, stretching over 4.25...
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Like Rowers to the Race
16 June 2024 By Philip Kuepper We awakened to the blue eye of the sea,open wide, gazing up at the sky,a sky that was gazing back down on it.We had awakened caughtbetween the two all-seeing eyes.We...
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More Gleaming Gold
17 June 2024By Göran R BuckhornNews comes from Gavin Jamieson about his brilliant biography of Jumbo Edwards, Water’s Gleaming Gold, which was published last summer to great acclaim. In August, HTBS’s...
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Outside Time
An old post card of Niantic and the Niantic River. 18 June 2024By Ian Williams* Ian Williams Quite recently, long-time sculler Ian Williams found his way to HTBS. He contacted HTBS to ask if we might...
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