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[L Verge]

(12-23-2017 08:13 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  

(12-23-2017 12:56 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I'm really stretching on this one, and I hope you are too -- My mother loved plants, so I know that the common name for aspidistra is the cast iron plant. Tying this to Raphael Semmes: He did wondrous things for the Confederate Navy, including manning the cast iron raiding ship Alabama. Semmes also had a home in Mobile, Alabama.

I do know that Bobby Charlton was a great soccer (football) star in England, but not sure how to tie him to this unless he was from some English town named Mobile?

That cast iron connection is even more tenuous than the one I was thinking of .... Eva's link leads the way though ...
http://www.gmmg.org.uk/our-connected-his...-scabbard/

And the last paragraph has a name which leads to aspidistra.
(search on the name with word aspidistra)

Oh, and that airplane crash ? Every school boy when I was there would know of it. The Busby Babes ( Matt Busby was the club manager) were on a plane flight 6th Feb 1958 Munich. Several of the worlds best (at that time) soccer players died.

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(12-23-2017 08:10 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6XROMw3Z4e0
It's late...she died in Capri, which reminds me of a song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WStnedpKMgA

YES! You can go to bed now ... noon here. Well done

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Eva arrived at the answer using a different link to the one I started with . This was mine ...
http://revealinghistories.org.uk/the-ame...abama.html

this provides a pointer some interesting Manchester issues here ...
http://revealinghistories.org.uk/the-ame...amine.html

OMG - I knew that Aspidistra was the code name for a British radio broadcast during WWII, but I never thought with all the other links to Semmes that the answer would boil down to Gracie Fields and her gift of Semmes's sword. What a tangled web that one was...