Monday, September 21, 2020
. Forty Popes have lived less than a year after their election. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Friday, January 18 1907 . Ethiopia has exported its first avocados by train. The Communist Party banned photocopiers. More geese than swans now live. In Brazil there is a butterfly that uses its legs for running. All Pakistani [...]
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Also tagged Alastair Cook, beer, birds, Brazil, butterflies, Cecil Court, class, coats, Communism, cricket, death, elections, Ethiopia, fruit, Great Britain, news, Pakistan, photocopiers, religion, Saracens, satire, sealioning, Sir Paul McCartney, The Beatles, the internet, train-travel, William Huskisson
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. A body of police specialists in New York are called the sanitary squad. They are dressed in plain clothes, and their duty is to arrest anyone found spitting on the pavement and other prohibited places, in trams, theatres, etc. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Friday, August 31 1906 . Red Carpet Cigarettes is the [...]
. The Challenger voyage report is in 48 volumes, which weigh over 400lb. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, November 22 1906 . In the Republic of Cameroon Guinness is thought to be an aphrodisiac. A search for ‘fat naked German man chasing pig’ did not match any image results. Bernard Lout was buried in [...]
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Also tagged apparel, Bernard Lout, books, bookshelves, Cameroon, Challenger, Chrysippus, death, emus, England, finance, food, France, Germans, government, Greeks, Guinness, humour, machine guns, news, nudity, pigs, quizzes, satire, science, sex, Testudines, the Falklands, the internet, vocabulary, Warren Buffett
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. An architect named Firth was found at a Weymouth inquest to have shot himself in the side with a toy cannon while temporarily insane. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Tuesday, December 22 1908 . The SAS have killed some people in Afghanistan. The Veneziana pizza was invented in the 1970s by Pizza Express. In [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, anatomy, architecture, artillery, bookshops, children, China, Christmas, cocks, Colombo, fathers, food, greed, humanity, laziness, madness, magic, news, Pizza Express, reindeer, religion, robots, Russian, SAS, satire, Sir Isaac Newton, Sydney, the Dutch, trees, Venice, Weymouth, wolves
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. The Irish language still lingers in the Bahamas among the mixed descendants of the Hibernian patriots banished by Cromwell to the West Indies. One can occasionally hear black sailors in the London docks, who cannot speak a work of English, talking Irish to the old applewomen whom they meet, and thus making themselves intelligible [...]
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Also tagged anatomy, astronomy, churches, clubbing, Diderot, elephants, Facebook, fruit, Irish, ironmongery, madness, news, Oliver Cromwell, Poetry, Prince Gunarasa Casinader, Russians, sailors, satire, sex, shoes, Sri Lankans, Stephen Joyce, tea, the Bahamas, Turks, twins, urine, walls, Walter Benjamin
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. Only six percent. of all paper produced is used for making books. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, February 18 1907 . The Bombay Harmonium Company are neither from Bombay nor do they manufacture or stock harmoniums. Thor Heyerdahl was right. Only 38% of Netflix content is available outside the US. Penguins can shoot [...]
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Also tagged America, anthropology, Ayn Rand, Bombay, books, Carlsberg, Denver, food, harmoniums, Hungary, literature, London, money, Netflix, news, paper, Patrick Harrington, penguins, pigeons, Ringo Starr, satire, shit, tea, Thor Heyerdahl, Venezuela, Venice, yoga
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. The veddahs, or wild hunters, of Ceylon mingle the pounded fibres of soft and decayed wood with the honey on which they feed when meat is not to be obtained. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, January 21 1907 . Samuel John Taylor Coleridge is the first descendant in more than two centuries to be [...]
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Also tagged bears, cartography, Ceylon, drink, family, food, hair, honey, hotels, humour, Laurie Lee, libel, London Zoo, Maradana, monarchy, Native Americans, news, Oxford, parsnips, Richard Branson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, satire, the Welsh, veddahs, Washington Redskins
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. The barnacles are scraped off British men-of-war twice a year..5 — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, September 6 1906 . Wicca is the fastest-growing religion in the UK after Islam. The Dutch term for a sex buddy is ‘seksbuddy’. George I and his prime minister conversed officially in dog Latin. Irish 6th-formers know what The Communist Manifesto is [...]
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. In the United States only one about one building in three thousand is even nominally fire-proof. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, March 14 1907 . Ellis Paz has become the first man in history to be awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford while wearing just his pants. Matthew Perry once entered a Vanilla Ice lookalike [...]
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Also tagged Air India, air travel, America, bears, biography, birds, BMX, books, construction, Covid-19, Edinburgh, Ellis Paz, Emma Bunton, emojis, fire, health, homosexuality, Matthew Perry, Mussolini, nature, Nigeria, Oxford, Oxford University, Parsees, Pashto, Poetry, satire, Tamil, trypophobia, underwear, Vanilla Ice
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. One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Wednesday, August 29 1906 . Globalisation is going into reverse. The (great) auk became extinct because he forgot how to fly. Your underpants contain cellulose. In the medieval period, walking through a labyrinth or [...]
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