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I was born in the Swinging 60s, living in England was a good place to be, still is depending how you may view ones own opinion?
Cigarettes were less than one pound for 20, beer was 25 pence a pint and you could buy a weeks worth of sweets for a...
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Cut to the chase
Todays definition: Get to the point.
In the early days of cinema, plots would deviate between romantic entanglements, bad guys with wiry moustaches tying women to train tracks and a chase scene. It was a generally routine formula...
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Francophobic is a term that best describes the hatred for the French that was around in the late 1100s. A poem by Andrew de Coutances describes the French as lazy dogs, godless, arrogant, cowards, heretics, rapists, and greedy gluttons!
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Nostradamus (14 December or 21 December 1503 2 July 1566), was a practicing physician, astronomer and astrologer who turned his hand to prophecy later in life.
Nostradamus wrote is prophecies in quatrains. Prophesising was punishable by death...
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Nostradamus (14 December or 21 December 1503 2 July 1566), was a practicing physician, astronomer and astrologer who turned his hand to prophecy later in life.
Nostradamus wrote is prophecies in quatrains. Prophesising was punishable by death...
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Marx and Satan
by Richard Wurmbrand
INTRODUCTION
ONE Changed Loyalties
TWO Against All Gods
THREE Ruined Faith
FOUR Too Late
FIVE A Cruel Counterfeit
SIX A Spiritual Warfare
SEVEN Marx, Darwin, and Revolution
EIGHT Angels of Light
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William H. May
1953 - 2009
William H. Billy May, world-renowned entertainment producer, director and composer, died at 1:45am on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Mays death follows a recent...
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Bluestockings
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to fight for an Education
Jane Robinson Penguin 2009
This is the history of how higher education at university level became possible for women.
It was a battle against hostility...
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On April 24, 1918, the French village of Villers-Bretonneux was liberated from German occupation. The village, which had been almost destroyed by World War I fighting, was won back only after bitter, hand-to-hand combat.
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World's Oldest Still-Inhabited Cities
There are very few ancient cities that have survived the test of time. Factors like migration, war and even climate change led to most being abandoned and forgotten. However there are some cities around the...
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Vampires are created through a process called the Embrace. The Embrace is similar to normal vampiric feeding - the vampire drains her chosen prey of blood.
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the Life and Legend of
Cyrano de Bergerac
ishbel addyman 2008
Do you know the Legend of Cyrano promoted by films based on Rostand's play?
Consider reading aobut the historical person behind the legend, a swordsman, soldier, and writer...
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As reported in the Chicago Tribune, December 5th marked exactly 75 years since the repeal of prohibition in the United States.
Coming into effect on January 16, 1920. After 13 years prohibition had become increasingly unpopular. Production,...
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DONNE
The Reformed Soul
John Stubbs 2007
Do or are you doing Donne at School or Uni? Read this excellent biography and learn about the personalities events politics and religion and society of late Elzabethan and early 17th century...
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Empire State Building 1930
The Empire State building was built in 1930.
Safety will only be invented in the 1990s
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Many well known public figures have been murdered over time, usually for religious, ideological, political, or military reasons.
This article at Life.com covers many of them and below is a selection.
The full article contains many of the most...
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Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
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What if? Causes and Effects behind U.S. policies
What if the U.S. did not support and fund Bin Laden during the Russian and Afghanistan war? In doing so, they seeded fields of violence that lead to the attack on the World Trade Center , ...
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The Travels of
MARCO POLO
As some of us have noticed with delight Everyman's Library have been revising and reissuing their translations of the Classics in new editions.
I hav epreviously read the Penguin classics translaton of Marco Polo...
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