— The Nelson Evening Mail, July 4 1908
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The Chinese Christian warlord Feng Yu-xiang (1882–1948) baptised his troops en masse, using a firehose.

Vincent Kompany has suffered more than 40 injuries.

Time passes very slowly when you’re in a hippo’s mouth.

Poetry must be entered into by a personal encounter, or it must be left alone.

Johnny Cash was in Colombo once.

The children’s insult ‘Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah’ is sung to the tune of ‘Bye, baby Bunting’. It features a descending minor third.

In Milan, there is an interactive neon tennis court inside a church.

The German language has not changed hugely since 1669.

Men’s hair takes on a lot.

A lot of well-respected Japanese writers seem to take their own lives.

You can see the name ‘Cadbury’ on every piece of chocolate.

Queen Victoria knew her Onions.

There are many different sorts of Irishman.
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— 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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