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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916-1990). Dahl is best known for his classic children's books. Born in Llandaff, on September 13, 1916, Roald Dahl, son of Harald Dahl, a Norwegian, was first sent to the Elmtree House School....

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2007 Photo of Henry Allingham by MP Simon Hughes (Source: public domain photo courtesy of WikiPedia Commons)85

Death of Henry Allingham - Veteran of World War I and Original Member of Britain's RAF

July 19, 2009 With the death of Henry William Allingham in the early morning hours of July 18, 2009 the number of known surviving veterans of World War I, or the Great War as it is known outside the U.S.,...

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Sargodha Girls Next Door

Sargodha belongs to a triumphrat of "planned cities"in Pakistan(the other two are *Faisalabad and slamabad). In Sargodha, one-hundred years ago, there existed a well whcih was owned by a Hindi by the...

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Wellington and Top Pen Womens Cricket Looking For Sponsors

Hi my name is Mr Roy Livingstone and I am the chairman for Wellington and Top Pen Women's Cricket Team in St Mary Jamaica WI. This a fast-growing women and young Ladies cricket club . It's aim is to...

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World's Smallest Country: The Principality of Sealand

The world's smallest country isn't the Vatican City, it is in fact the independant Principality of Sealand located off the coast of England. The country is essentially an old World War II platform that became...

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Air Training Cadet

AIR TRAINING CADET I look back with the aid of my diary over 66 years to a few months before my fifteenth birthday when, quite unauthorised, I joined the Air Training Corps before I was eligible. The...

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how to become a genius

A genius is a person who successfully applies a previously unknown technique in the production of a work of art, science or calculation, or who masters and personalizes a known technique. A genius typically...

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Citizen of Both Ireland and America

It's St. Patrick's Day and practically everyone in America claims to be Irish – at least for the day. Just wear a bit of green and join the party! However, according to Fact Monster, out of the 300+...

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Ghost Pictures Ever Taken

"The Brown Lady" of Raynham HallThis photo was taken in 1936 at Raynham Hall in Norfolk, England. This portraint of "The Brown Lady" is arguably the most famous and well-regarded ghost photograph ever taken....

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Air force ground crews report back to pilots

The practice in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) is for pilots to report any faults they find during flights on "Form 700" and for the ground crews to add their responses after the faults have been traced and...

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