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It’s hard to believe that I have been writing camera reviews for ten years now! I also can’t believe that I’ve been able to continue to write camera reviews for ten years. Of course I have slowed down on the number of reviews a year since I started in 2015 but it has also made this series far more sustainable. As of this posting I have published 171 reviews, I made it to the 100th only four years, mostly because I published about twenty five per year on average. I only started to slow down after I introduced additional reviews into the mix (films followedRead More →

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The war had become a stalemate, and peace negotiations reached an impasse. Drummond’s siege remained in place but had been reduced to ineffective artillery fire, and most of his troops were reduced by illness due to the ongoing rain and poor conditions in the camp. Drummond’s requests for additional troops had been granted, and elements of the 4th and 82nd Regiments marched with heavy siege artillery to Niagara. On 4 September, the American defenders of Fort Erie did attempt to dislodge the British attackers. The short skirmish resulted in several deaths, including the traitor Joseph Willcocks and many of his Canadian Volunteers in the shortRead More →