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by Lionel Birnie

Our build-up to the Tour de France continues with the second part of my list of favourite KM0 episodes made at the Tour de France. You can read part one here.

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With the 2019 Tour starting in Brussels and passing through Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, the suburb the Merckx family called home, we focused on the greatest rider of all-time. Five Tour wins, rainbow jerseys, the Hour Record, pretty much every stage race and Classic… How do you sum up Eddy Merckx’s career in 23 minutes? Well, with the help of Daniel Friebe, who wrote the excellent biography, The Cannibal, of course.

The 2019 race marked the 100th an

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Cleopatra: A Life

April 3, 2021

“Among the most famous women to have lived, Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for twenty-two years. She lost a kingdom once, regained it, nearly lost it again, amassed an empire, lost it all. A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter, she was an object of speculation and veneration, gossip and legend, even in her own time…”
- Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

One of the things that children are really good at doing is reminding you of all the things you don’t know. At the dinner table, I am routinely confronted with the limits of my knowledge, whether that is mathematical, scientific, or historical. Cleopatra is a case in point. When she arose as a topic of conversation, I had literally nothing to add beyond “Queen of Egypt.” Everything else – from the time of her birth, the period of her reign, the impact of her existence, and the details of her end – was entirely unknown to me.

Thus, it was interesting to discover – short

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Reign & Revolution

Released! April 2016

Rhiannon and her Hive have mastered space travel. Sort of. At least, they’re better at it. They’ve outsmarted kidnappers, survived severe oxygen deprivation, and heisted back their own fartyg engine from would-be thieves.

Since joining up, they’ve traveled farther and farther away from their home planet. But out on Yin He Garden Station (in Chinese-owned territory), home catches up.

When Alan’s former research advisor makes an offer that’ll let them return to Dyfed as respected members of society, Rhiannon knows she must accept. But home isn’t exactly as she left it, and a hostile space fleet stands between her aging fartyg and her new/old life. Should she charge towards the fleet, or scurry back into international space as fast as her craft can go?

Discover the Hive Queen Saga’s thrilling conclusion!

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