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[news.bbc.co.uk] Despite Becher’s Brook and The Chair and all kinds of other terrible obstacles my son has come through and I’m very proud and wish them well Is Her Majesty intentionally trying to suggest that her son is riding a horse? ( for explanation if this is not transparent, see [news.bbc.co.uk] [www.bbc.co.uk] and [www.google.com] )

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As spotted by Tom Meyer: [www.theregister.co.uk] Blair to ditch ID cards As predicted by El Reg here the Government looks set to ditch its unpopular ID card legislation if Tony Blair calls an election today. Blair is widely expected to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament today – the trigger for a General Election on

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2005 Apr 08: Hybrid Solar Eclipse The first solar eclipse of 2005 is of an uncommon type known as either annular-total or hybrid. This is a unique class of central1 eclipse where some sections of the path are annular while other parts are total. The duality comes about when the vertex of the Moon’s umbral

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AFGHANISTAN, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, BAHAMAS, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELIZE, BOTSWANA, BURUNDI, CAMEROON, CHAD, CHINA, COMOROS, CONGO (Democratic Republic), CUBA, DOMINICA, EGYPT, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, GABON, GHANA, GUATEMALA, GUINEA, GUYANA, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, JAMAICA, JAPAN, JORDAN, KAZAKSTAN, KOREA (North), KOREA (South), KUWAIT, KYRGYZSTAN, LAOS, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, LIBYA, MALAWI, MALAYSIA, MONGOLIA, NIGERIA, OMAN,

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Astronomy Picture of the Day: [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] (Via Dan)

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[news.bbc.co.uk] A teachers’ union has said it is alarmed by an increase in lessons which teach that Adam and Eve was the literal truth, rather the fable which science believes it to be. The rise in creationism is not just an American phenomenon. For many British people, belief in a six-day creation seems to be

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Just found this: [web.canon.jp]

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After chatting with Alan & Telsa at the weekend, and with Simon-the-Monkey-Boy yesterday, I spent last night disassembling my 20+ year old washing machine in order to access and unblock the filter. The machine dates from before an era where ease of use was not terribly important, so to empty the filter normally would require

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[www.wired.com]

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A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way – first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint. Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Actor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series has been screened, the BBC has confirmed. Solution: Make Billie Piper the next Doctor; a simple bodyswap plot will suffice, with a messed-up regeneration. No?

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