May 15


Amber pages



Anthony Shaffer, screenplay writer, and Peter Shaffer, playwright, b
orn within seconds of each other, and completely identical, today in 1926, providing an excuse for a piece on famous twins:

Jacob and Esau (heels and birthrights)
Perets and Zerach (less well-known, but that scarlet thread!)
Romulus and Remus
Castor and Pollux
Apollo and Artemis


And speaking of pairs, the female half of that most famously tragic love story, Abelard and 
Héloïse, died today in 1163 (more on her on the "Mediaeval" page of "Woman-Blindness")


Mike Oldfield, composer of "Tubular Bells", b
orn today in 1953, providing an excuse for a piece on "whatever happened to?"




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