[Ads-l] Pompey, nickname for Portsmouth, England, antedated

[Stephen Goranson]

Previously known from 1899.

1898, March 23, page 7 col. 3, Woolwich Gazette [British Newspaper Archive]
An article on football that comments on Pearson's Athletic Record (a cycling publication with county maps).

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is "about 70 miles S. W. of London," we find ourselves somewhere handy to Portsmouth, or as our sailor friends call it "Happy Pompey, where the band plays."
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Stephen Goranson
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Stephen Goranson's Home Page - Duke University<https://people.duke.edu/~goranson/>
Stephen Goranson. goranson "at" duke "dot" edu. Jannaeus.pdf. My paper on the history of Alexander Jannaeus as the Qumran- and Essene-view "Wicked Priest" and Judah the Essene as the "Teacher of Righteousness" (3 August 2005 [revised 12 January 2006]; 34 pages), "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene ". Dura-Europos.pdf "7 vs. 8: The Battle Over the Holy Day at Dura-Europos"
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