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RT @Sunset_Twilight: The Mayans never said that th…
RT @Sunset_Twilight: The Mayans never said that the calendar was the end of the world, merely an end to their current calendar cycle
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RT @ProfBrianCox: Getting ready for The End of the…
RT @ProfBrianCox: Getting ready for The End of the World Show at Hammersmith tomorrow. I’ll be doing the Christmas shopping on Saturday.
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RT @Zen_Moments: Now and then it’s good to pause i…
RT @Zen_Moments: Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~ Guillaume Apollinaire v.ht/av
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RT @pomeranian99: Here’s @quinnnorton’s long, fasc…
RT @pomeranian99: Here’s @quinnnorton‘s long, fascinating, often sad piece describing her months covering the Occupy movement nationwide …
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RT @ProfBrianCox: In fact I declare 22nd December…
RT @ProfBrianCox: In fact I declare 22nd December ‘international slap a pseudoscientific hippy with a text book day.’
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#RIPSirPatrickMoore – it’s a gorgeous clear evenin…
#RIPSirPatrickMoore – it’s a gorgeous clear evening – pop outside, look up, let your eyes adjust & enjoy glories of the Universe!
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RT @WestWingReport: “May we never confuse honest d…
RT @WestWingReport: “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The end of the road for paper maps?
I’m always a bit behind with what I read online, and this is a story from about a month or so ago. Are paper maps dead? For those of us of a certain age who did things like the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme or were Scouts or did military service, we can be put in
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He’s not the Messiah….
And so the Left and progressive movement in the UK and further afield rip themselves apart over Julian Assange. I’d repeatedly said to myself ‘Don’t blog on this, you’ll annoy people, get your blood pressure up, and waste a good hour of your life’. But, I can’t help it, after seeing ‘old heroes’ of the
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
The title of this piece is a quote from the late, great American brainy bugger Gore Vidal. I’m not sure how seriously I actually believe it, but a little pang of…something…went through me yesterday when a friend contacted me to tell me that a novel he’d written (and that I was lucky enough to read