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Joss Naylor MBE

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King Kenny … long live the King!

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Geoffrey Winthrop Young

admin — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:03:22 +0000

Only a hill ; earth set a little higher above the face of earth : a larger view of little fields and roads : a little higher to clouds and silence : what is that to you? Only a hill ; but all of life to me, up there, between the sunset and the sea.

happiness

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:32:27 +0000

Speech by Robert Kennedy, 18 March 1968, University of Kansas.

”We will never find a purpose for our nation nor for our personal satisfaction in the mere search for economic well-being, in endlessly amassing terrestrial goods. We cannot measure the national spirit on the basis of the Dow-Jones, nor can we measure the achievements of our country on the basis of the gross domestic product (GDP)

Our gross national product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those [

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Original Dr. Seuss taxidermy on eBay – Boing Boing

admin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:49:20 +0000

I’ve posted previously about Dr. Seuss’s “School of Unorthodox Taxidermy,” a sculpture series that Theodore Seuss Geisel created in the 1930s. Reproductions are available, but an incredibly-rare original set is now on eBay. They are currently on exhibit at the Chateau de Belcastel monument in France, but they can be yours for just $1,000,000. From eBay:

This collection would have been originally purchased in the late 1930’s. They were kept in a child’s room, and eventually retired to the storage barn next to a chicken coop in upstate New York. The set was acquired for a substantial sum in [

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Bear Bryant

admin — Mon, 10 May 2010 04:54:51 +0000

Paul “Bear” Bryant was a coaching legend. During his 25 year tenure at the University of Alabama, he was college football’s winningest coach, leading his team to six national championships. As a young man he was tough-he earned his famous nickname by volunteering to wrestle a bear at age 13 and played in a game with a partially broken leg during his time as a college player. He carried this toughness over to his coaching where he demanded excellence of his men on and off the field, and looked dapper while doing it. Losing was not an [

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Chester, what’s all that about?

admin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:04:41 +0000

ascensiones in corde suo disposuit

He has set ascents in his heart; or, as we should phrase it, He has set his heart on ascents. …

nothing grinder

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:20:00 +0000

Shackleton’s Lost Scotch « Camp Smoke

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:03:59 +0000

Shackleton’s Lost Scotch « Camp Smoke.

Lord Ashcroft pays record price for Noel Chavasse’s VC

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:03:50 +0000

Chavasse and his brother extraordinary men … VC on the wikipedia

“The story behind the gallantry medals of Captain Noel Chavasse is deeply moving: he was awarded the second of his VCs after dying from battlefield injuries in 1917. Since then at least 12 memorials have been erected worldwide in his honour – more than for any other recipient of the Commonwealth’s most prestigious bravery award.

Captain Chavasse’s service and gallantry medals were left by his family decades ago to St Peter’s College, Oxford. The college has now sold the medals to Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire Tory peer. According [

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