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61Pastel Workshops - How To Paint A Sunset
A step by step article telling you how to paint a sunset, from start to finish.
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78Best Books and Films of 2011 - We Bought a Zoo
I did not intend to read Benjamin Mee's 2008 book We Bought a Zoo all in one sitting recently, but it happened! With no effort the book engrossed me entirely and I felt compelled to continue reading. At 261 pages in length, the true life account...
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79Hatred Is the Key - Dartmoor Prison England and the American Holocaust in the War of 1812
A book by UK author Graham Scalter tells the hidden accounts of the aftermath of the War of 1812 -- 10,000 Americans of every walk of life were tortured. No less tortured were their captors...
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75A Corner Of A Forgotten Field
On the 8th September 1916, my great-uncle died from wounds suffered during the Battle of the Somme. Second Lieutenant Henry Byron, 1st/5th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, was twenty-two. His brother – my grandfather –enlisted at the age of...
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71Dartmoor: England's last wilderness
Dartmoor landscape A Dartmoor stream Dartmoor, in the south west of England, is a wild, wet, windy place. A rugged expanse of wilderness, left like a stranded whale of solid rock when the rest of the land slid back into the primeval swamp. The...
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69A Visit to Dartmoor and an Ancient Clapper Bridge
A 'drive thru' visit to the moorlands of Dartmoor with the impressive stone walls and ancient clapper bridge.
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88England: Geography Quiz
Several people have asked me to create a Great Britain quiz — England, Scotland, and Wales. Rather than do that, I'm going to write three quizzes, one for each of these components of Great Britain which, when combined with Northern Ireland, comprise the country called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is the first of those three quizzes.
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75The Jigsaw Puzzle
This happened to an elderly lady near Dartmoor in England who lived alone for 15 years after her husband passed away. An independent person, the lady choose to keep her large Dartmoor home after her husband's sudden death in a car accident, and...
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86Pastel Workshops - How to Underpaint Your Pastels Using Watercolour
This article talks you through a painting, explaining in detail how the artist acheived the finished piece, by underpainting pastels with watercolours to add depth and vibrancy to the work.
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79SEMINAR REPORT OF NATURAL BUILDING MATERIALS
Building materials can be generally categorized into two sources, natural and synthetic. Natural building materials are those that are unprocessed or minimally processed by industry, such as lumber or glass. ...
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