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BRAZIL’S EMPEROR COMES TO LIVERPOOL

June 10, 2014 By Steven Horton

With the World Cup about to start in Brazil, that country’s influence in Liverpool is more prevalent than ever before. There are two Brazilian players at Liverpool FC, restaurants such as Fazienda Rodizio, Bem Brasil and Viva Brasil in the city centre, while the annual Brazilica festival is the UK’s biggest Samba carnival. It is […]

MARK TWAIN AT THE INSTITUTE

April 24, 2014 By Steven Horton

The Liverpool Institute in Mount Street may be best known as the school where Paul McCartney and George Harrison attended in the 1950s, but eight decades earlier it was the venue for three lectures by American author and humourist Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain’s real name was Samuel Longhorne Clemens and […]

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