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Enjoying The Spring Sunshine…

Posted on 27/03/2012 by

The Smallest Paddle Steamer? Is this the smallest Paddle Steamer you have ever seen? This ever popular picture must surely show the world’s smallest paddle steamer still working on the Norfolk Broads in the UK. The picture was taken, then kindly … Continue reading →

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Interesting Quotes From The Past…

Posted on 21/02/2012 by

‘Being a personality is not the same as having a personality.’ Alan Coren. 1938-2007 English writer. ‘It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.’ Woody Allen. 1935- American film producer. ‘Talent … Continue reading →

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Interesting Quotes From The Past…

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I think computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Stephen Hawking 1942- English theoretical physicist. The Internet is an elite … Continue reading →

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Interesting Quotes From The Past…

Posted on 13/11/2011 by

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. Edward Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73 British novelist. Predictions can be very difficult – especially about the future. Niels Bohr 1885-1962 Danish physicist. … Continue reading →

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Interesting Diary Entries From The Past…

Posted on 23/10/2011 by

Television in The Home. July 1953. Aerial requirements. The aerial is usually of the dipole type, with a reflector and a special matching feeder cable to connect the aerial to the receiver. Usually a receiver is designed for a feeder … Continue reading →

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Interesting Quotes From The Past…

Posted on 18/10/2011 by

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio, Lord Nelson 1758-1805 British admiral. I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself. Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955 Spanish … Continue reading →

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Interesting People From The Past…

Posted on 21/09/2011 by

Charles Spencer Chaplin – Dear Charlie Chaplin! Dear Charlie became Sir Charles Chaplin, receiving his knighthood from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 1979. His film career had spanned 54 years, and in that time Charlie made a total of … Continue reading →

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Interesting Quotes From The Past…

Posted on 06/09/2011 by

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is like a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 Spanish painter. I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. Jean-Jacques Rousseau … Continue reading →

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Interesting Movies From The Past…

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Interesting Quotations from The Past…

Posted on 23/06/2011 by

My idea of Heaven is, eating pate’ de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. Sydney Smith 1771-1845 English essayist. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 American writer. Have nothing in your house that you … Continue reading →

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