An evening with Kumar Sangakkara. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times
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Also tagged charity, cheese, Council for Business with Britain, County Championship, cricket, Cricket World Cup, drink, film, Foundation of Goodness, geography, Great Britain, Heraclitus, HSBC, Kumar Sangakkara, Kushil Gunasekera, Lord's, Mark Prothero, Marylebone Cricket Club, parents, records, Seenigama, Shangri-La, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), Surrey
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. The Paris Louvre is in future to be guarded by watch-dogs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Monday, July 13 1908 . The human population has almost doubled since we landed on the Moon. Genital preferences are transphobic. The third umpire will have the final say on the snatch. It is against the rules to take a […]
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Also tagged Adolf Hitler, anatomy, Argentina, babies, Bertha, business, cell-phones, chewing gum, coconuts, cricket, death, dogs, drink, Florence, German, girls, Greeks, history, humans, lambs, law, Nelson Evening Mail, newspapers, Paris, philosophy, satire, singing, Stalin, the Louvre, the moon, West Sussex, wisdom, writing
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Midori Goto’s violin recital in Colombo, reviewed. (Along with half the audience.) — For the Sunday Times (SL)
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Also tagged audiences, Brahms, cell-phones, Chamber Music Society of Colombo, children, Colombo, Debussy, etiquette, Fauré, Ieva Jokubaviciute, Lakshman Joseph de Saram, Lionel Wendt, Midori Goto, music, piano, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), violin
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. The maximum suicide age is between 65 and 75. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Thursday, August 9 1906 . Forest Green Cricket Club accepts no liability for damage to vehicles parked on the green whilst a game is in progress. There are pros and cons to time-travelling while black. Pope Gregory declared the rooster the most suitable […]
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Also tagged anatomy, aristocracy, art, Ashmolean Museum, baking, Christianity, cocks, cricket, crime, employment, farming, Forest Green, Fox News, frogs, Fukushima, Latin, music, Nelson Evening Mail, news, North Korea, nuclear power, Partick, race, Raymond Joseph Teller, time-travel, toilets
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. Thomas King was fined 12s, or eight days’ hard labour, at the Thames Police Court for intoxication. While in this state he asked a pawnbroker to advance 2s on a baby. — The Nelson Evening Mail, Wednesday, April 10 1907 . There are 2000 non-functioning satellites in space. Lord Reith did not want people to enjoy […]
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Also tagged Aethelred the Unready, America, anatomy, babies, Ceylon, crime, drink, Indians, James Joyce, jungles, Lord Reith, money, Nelson Evening Mail, Panama, radio, religion, seafood, shipping, space, tea, the Japanese, war
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. We call our day 24 hours, but it is really 23 hours 56 minutes 5 seconds. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 28 1906 . ‘Facetious’ is the shortest word in the English language including all the vowels in alphabetical order. The English theatre loves the joker. Samuel Beckett notched up 35 runs in first-class cricket. UK funeral directors are […]
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Also tagged America, anatomy, baking, californium, comedy, cricket, death, English, fishing, funeral directors, gun violence, JR Ewing, mackerel, men, money, murder, music, Nelson Evening Mail, republicanism, Ross Brown, Samuel Beckett, singing, the pentatonic scale, the UK, theatre, time, torture, Uzbekistan, vowels, weather, work
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. High top boots for dogs are now being sold in the shops of New York. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 23 1907 . The first pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving car. Starbucks employees do not capitalise their As. The sound of the bagpipe fattens the sheep and lambs of all Arabia. […]
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Also tagged (il)literacy, academia, Adam Smyth, age, America, Arabia, babies, bagpipes, Canada, cars, Chile, composition, criticism, death, dermatology, dogs, Donald Trump, Easter Island, entertainment, fauna, geography, housewares, Justin Trudeau, Mahler, Moldiv, Mount Everest, music, Nelson Evening Mail, New York, Poetry, politics, shopping, Starbucks, Truth, walking
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. The average salary of professors at Dublin University is £530. — The Nelson Evening Mail, March 14 1907 . Wherever there is a fire that ravages everything in its path, the protea is the first thing to regenerate. Clive James once voluntarily interviewed the Spice Girls. Manchester has become ‘Womanchester’. Cineworld has landed in […]
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Also tagged academia, America, army, bowls, Cineworld, Clive James, domestic affairs, Donald Trump, drink, Dublin, Elon Musk, employment, engineering, film, finance, flora, Journalism, Kanye West, law, Manchester, music, Nelson Evening Mail, nomenclature, Oscar Wilde, pastry, retirement, South Africa, space travel, technology, the Congo, the Spice Girls, Um Bongo, university, Weston-super-Mare, women, work
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Monday, November 20, 2017
. More than 6000 editions of the “Imitation of Christ”, ascribed to Thomas a Kempis, have been issued in the past 400 years. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 21 1907 . The record for the fastest hole in golf is 32.7 seconds. Acres of quiet farmland set a peaceful scene. ‘Bert’ is like a […]
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Also tagged agriculture, air travel, anatomy, Athens, chocolate, Christianity, diplomacy, elephant, golf, Hector, Iran, London, maniacs, money, music, Muslims, Nelson Evening Mail, Nobel Prize for Literature, nomenclature, nurses, publishing, reality, religion, security, sex, singing, Smooth Radio, Special Air Service, Sri Lanka, Tarjei Vesaas, the Sinhalese, Thomas á Kempis, WWE
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Monday, November 13, 2017
. Throughout Denmark there is not one person over 10 years of age who cannot read or write. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 4 1906 . There is a whale whose voice is too low to communicate with other whales. Seatbelts do not statistically improve your chances of surviving a car accident. London’s Mithraic temple is […]
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Also tagged accidents, advertising, Aeneas, anatomy, archaeology, Aung San Suu Kyi, Basque, Bell's, Bloomberg, cars, Christmas, cliché, criticism, Daniel O'Donnell, Dante, Denmark, drink, Euclid, Facebook, finance, humans, John Lewis, law, limbo, London, maths, Missouri, Mithras, music, Myanmar, Nelson Evening Mail, Nicholas Lezard, Nobel Peace Prize, nomenclature, philosophy, Poetry, politics, religion, sex, singing, the West, traditions, whales, whisky, women
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