intelligence – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Sun, 24 Apr 2022 17:23:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 News At A Glance #4 http://www.ashsmyth.com/news-at-a-glance-4-3/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/news-at-a-glance-4-3/#respond Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:15:30 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3338 Concerning sparrows in Ethiopia, more than one Alma in Wisconsin, and William Langley in Port Stanley.

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For The Emigre

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Though fair-haired people are not so strong as those with dark hair, they usually live longer.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, Wednesday, July 15 1908
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The comedian Joe Pasquale (born Joseph Ellis Pasquale) has not died.

The US government spends more per head on their dysfunctional healthcare system than the UK spends per person on the NHS.

There is not much colour in Lincolnshire.

There is a cricket team called the British Guiana Boers. They play in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mandarin and Arabic are different.

People who eat dark chocolate are less likely to be depressed than those who don’t.

Owls are the second-least intelligent birds in the world.

76.5% of Sri Lankans believe that members of their parliament have unexplained wealth.

You don’t have to spend the night alone.

Leeds Castle have late-availability wedding offers from just £7950.

The English-language folk song ‘Bobby Shafto’s Gone to Sea’ has a Roud index number of 1359.

Anthony McGowan has been named the Adidas High School Wrestler of the Week.

Batman gifs are the height of orientalism.
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]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/news-at-a-glance-49/feed/ 0 M.O.’s m.o. – or; Everybody wants to be like Mike http://www.ashsmyth.com/m-o-s-m-o-or-everybody-wants-to-be-like-mike/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/m-o-s-m-o-or-everybody-wants-to-be-like-mike/#respond Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:05:07 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=2465 A review of Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight.

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For The Spectator

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Last year 15,391 persons kept bees in this colony. The number of hives was 74,341.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, April 10 1907
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It’s not every day a virgin conceives and bears a son.

Indifference to facts is not confined to the alt-right and the hyper-liberal Left.

The word ‘minge’ is of Romany extraction.

14°C is 57°F.

Elk hooves ward off epilepsy.

Until 1752 dates in England and on the Continent differed.

Empathy is the sign kwa known of the art of film acting.

Jayantha Gamini Molligoda won the P Saravanamuttu Trophy Sri Lankan championship with the Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, in 1963–4.

Queen Victoria, Empress of India, never set foot in that country.

The hashtag ‘#Erith’ is much underused.

ProShield is not initialized.

According to science being forgetful is actually a sign that you are intelligent.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill W and Dr Bob.
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