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Only about three in every hundred amateur novel-writers find their way into print, except at their own expense.
— The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907
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The erection of a verandah is a useful way to extend one’s living quarters.
Seven American states observe Abraham Lincoln’s birthday as a public holiday.
There is only one Tunumiisut-French grammar.
Anne Watson has just moved to university here, and right now really needs money to live. She is willing to go on a date – and has massive breasts.
There is a shark that can live for 400 years.
In 1945 the Soviet Union took the side of Chiang Kai-shek against the Chinese communists.
What in Britain is called the Special Relationship, in Germany is called treason.
Working-class people swear a lot.
At birth, a baby’s focal distance is not much more than 20cm.
In a recent survey, atheists and agnostics knew the most about religion. In second place were Mormons; third Jews; and then all other forms of Christianity.
Barack Obama is Irish.
The revolution will not be printed in Comic Sans.
The word ‘acrylic’ does not benefit from repetitive translation.
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