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78Why do men find their secretaries attractive?
This is a question that makes a big supposition, namely that men DO find their secretaries attractive! Whether any scientific study has been made as to the proportion of men who fancy their secretaries, I do not know, but there seem to be so many...
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84What you can see from the London Eye
What is the London Eye? It's the World's tallest cantilevered observation wheel, at 135 metres, making it the fourth highest construction in London. It stands right next to the River Thames, alongside the former County Hall and very close to...
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75Found! The workhouse that inspired "Oliver Twist"
The Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland St, London Charles Dickens’s second novel, “Oliver Twist”, is well known for the scenes in which young Oliver is born and brought up in a workhouse. Anyone who has seen the stage or screen version of...
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72How can I get rid of the moths that are swarming around my front and back patio?
It is worth finding out what type of moths these are, and what their food plant is. Once you know this, look around outside your house and see if you have any of these plants growing nearby. If so, are they covered with caterpillars at a particular...
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82How to explain gaps in your resume
The situation is this--your resume gives plenty of details about all the jobs you have had so far, and the years you spent at school and college, but it is not complete. It has gaps in it of unexplained...
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73Opera plots - Wagner's Siegfried
The third part of the Ring Cycle takes place twenty years after the events of Die Walkure, or half an hour if you're enjoying (or enduring) the whole cycle in one fell swoop. If you remember, we left Brunhilde...
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96The three main types of library
Libraries the whole world over are under threat, mainly because the people who fund them are under the mistaken impression that they are no longer needed in the age of the Internet. I used to be a full-time librarian, but I lost my job in 2002 for...
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82Lawn Bowls - delivering the bowl
The whole essence of the game of bowls is getting your bowl to exactly where you want it to be, which means sending it down the green in the right direction and at the right speed. You must decide what are the...
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71The "Historic" Butler Cabin
One thing I miss now that Hootie Johnson is no longer Chairman of Augusta National Golf Club is his welcome to “the historic Butler Cabin” at the start of that very odd ceremony of presenting the green jacket to the winner of the Master’s...
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81Opera plots - Puccini's Tosca
There are not too many laughs in Tosca, which is based on a drama by the French playwright Victorien Sardou, set in Rome in 1800. The play was first performed in 1887, and it first attracted the attention of...
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