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Re: Red Ken Livingston -- Socialist Hero	31 Dec 2007 16:41 GMT	5
OYSTER CARDS... The Oyster brand name was agreed after a lengthy period of research managed by TranSys, the company contracted to deliver the ticketing system in London, and agreed by Transport for London. A number of alternative names
Mottos	31 Dec 2007 06:22 GMT	1
The United States Naval Academy [USNA]: Neptune's Trident. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Re: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition	29 Dec 2007 18:36 GMT	9
"Liberals" HATE value judgements of any sort -- except their own, of course. --------------------------------------------- "It must be the last encyclopedia in the tradition of Diderot which assumes that information can be made memorable only when it is slightly colored by
Automobile Roadside Assistance	29 Dec 2007 05:52 GMT	18
We do quite nicely with the AAA [Automobile Association of America] for all our cars. They are very fast, competent, efficient and not unreasonably priced. They have excellent maps too -- for the cognoscienti who prefer good maps to
Merry Christmas!	28 Dec 2007 18:42 GMT	5
How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." -- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1743) Reference: Poor Richard: The Almanacks, for the Years, 1733-1758,
General Of The Army/President Dwight David Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower & Kay Summersby Morgan	28 Dec 2007 18:35 GMT	2
> Serious answer, then. Dwight Eisenhower had a mistress while a General, > and a US President. Pogue Turlough ----------------------------------------
Thomas Sowell: Unpromising Times	27 Dec 2007 16:14 GMT	6
December 26, 2007 Unpromising Times Primary elections and secondary candidates. By Thomas Sowell
Another C.P. Addition: Margaret de Neville, wife of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland	27 Dec 2007 16:02 GMT	1
Dear Newsgroup ~ The authoritative Complete Peerage, 9 (1936): 708-712 (sub Northumberland) has a lengthy biography of Sir Henry Percy, K.G. (died 1407), Earl of Northumberland. On page 712, it is stated that his
Gallup Poll: Bush, Hillary Clinton Most Admired	26 Dec 2007 22:43 GMT	4
Yes, this poll shows the sharp divide in the American Electorate. DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas --------------------------------------------------------
Dame Shirley Bassey: 'This Isn't The Country I Grew Up In	25 Dec 2007 06:47 GMT	8
Renia and Dame Shirley have some complaints about Modern Britain in common... And Dame Shirley lives in Monaco and Renia in Greece.... 'Nuff Said.
The Surge	25 Dec 2007 00:11 GMT	156
"A surge bears all before it. Then retreats, leaving death and chaos in its wake." Discuss. Surreyman
Re: Gauntlet & Gantlet	24 Dec 2007 17:53 GMT	8
"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote in message news:476be88f.31381233@news.uunet.co.za... > From the Concise Oxford English dictionary:
Jefferson: "No Government Ought To Be Without Censors"	23 Dec 2007 15:04 GMT	27
"No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will." -- Thomas Jefferson (letter to George Washington, 9 September 1792) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toyota Avalon -- A Superb American Car From A Japanese Manufacturer	22 Dec 2007 04:27 GMT	202
2007 Toyota Avalon Reviews Satisfying, soothing, superbly detailed. Introduction Toyota Avalon is undoubtedly the best American car ever built by a Japanese
Time machine	22 Dec 2007 04:05 GMT	1
BBC History magazine has a new feature: what year would you like to go back to (as an historian) and why. Ronald Hutton chooses 1946 (I won't spoil it for you) but what year (for British history) would you choose?