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74What does 101 mean?
As a Brit who doesn't always keep up with current expressions, I had a pretty good idea what 101 meant from the context in which it was used, but I had no idea what its origins were. So I started researching...
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72Frenchwoman dies after losing euthanasia court case
Chantal Sébire was a cheerful, healthy, 52 year old French mother of 3 children - until she developed a rare form of cancer affecting her sinal cavity (only about 1,000 cases have been reported). A massive...
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72Desert Racing
Most 4x4 vehicle owners never do anything more adventurous than park on a grass verge or mount the kerb to park on the pavement (sidewalk). Just as well, since if they all took to serious off-roading, the...
0 comments57Focus, focus, focus - how to make progress online
Sorry, folks. I haven't created a new hub for ages - but I didn't have anything useful to say. For most of this year, I have been trying to find a niche that had the potential to make me a bit of extra...
0 comments56HubPages as a Social Network
Do you have an account on MySpace? On Facebook? On LinkedIn? Or Twitter? Or any number of other 'Social Networking' sites... Some people join just to hang out with like-minded pals, but more and more people...
4 comments59Making Videos is Fun - editing is the difficult bit
Just check back over your recent browsing for a minute. How many of the sites you enjoyed contained nothing but text, and the odd photgraph? How many of them had links to videos, or had videos embedded in...
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66Retiring Disgracefully
MKH on FranceDon't just sit there - say something!If I offer you advice, why should you take it? I'll just tell you how I did things, what happened, and sometimes my ideas about why. Your job is to take part...
4 comments59The last 'Poilu' dies aged 110
On 12 March 2008, Lazare Ponticelli died. While he was alive, he refused all ceremonial recognition, declaring that he was unfit to represent all the French citizens who died in World War I. It is only within...
8 comments56Retiring Disgracefully 2 - New Year Resolutions
We all make New Year resolutions, and I usually forget or abandon them within a week. This year it's going to be different - I'm publishing them for the world to see, and I daren't lose face. If you make...
1 comment57Retiring Disgracefully 3 - my 70th year of life
4 May was my 69th birthday. I don't feel different, but it seems like a good time to take another look at what I have achieved since writing Retiring Disgracefully 2. Physically, everything is much the same -...
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