There was an appropriate theme to these names, but it wasn't consistently applied. The six ships in the Basilisk class of bomb vessels were Blast, Basilisk, Thunder, Carcass, Lightning, Furnace. Names used for other bomb vessels were Firedrake, Comet, Mortar (v. unimaginative), Infernal, and Terror.

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Last week, Michael Gove split from his girlfriend Dr. Lola Salem who has been charged with possessing indecent images of children. The Oxford University professor has pleaded not guilty & is out on bail awaiting trial. Not much media attention on this. Apparently she was charged in back in June.

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I think so too. I’m the same age and I’m well aware of what happened and why it happened. It feels like a very dangerous time we’re in. War only ever takes one madman.

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JACK LEMMON wrote incredibly entertaining letters, like this one to his good friend BURT REYNOLDS in 1982.

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OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

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