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...that the hairiest people who ever lived and strongest, on average over 2 metres tall, came from NSW.
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... a cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation
Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints
Nose prints can be used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints
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noi, if we use current populations ( hence very approx - but ok for comparison I guess ..
relative populations are 21 mill vs 303 mill?
1.6 murders per 100k people in Aus,
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6.4 murders per 100k people in USA
mmm - only 4 times as bad
Here's the 1998 stats per city in USA and Europe...
USA has the top 6 - and about a tie for 7th with Moscow.
http://www.benbest.com/lifeext/murder.html
Here's USA's population btw (nothing to do with murders though) ...
http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
where I come from the entire population are relatives
go to family reunions to pick up chicks.
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Hi 2020, All my information on this thread comes with a guarantee that it is from renewable resources, and will be defended to the last smilie :sword:
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...Australia's oldest golf course is in Bothwell, Tasmania.
...Tennant Creek is the third largest gold producer in Australia.
...Tennant Creek is the third largest gold producer in Australia.
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...Magic Bullets "Light Sensitive antibodies that act like magic bullets" are the latest weapon against cancer. They act very quickly to reduce the tumour and have been used successfully in patients, and noted in cases of bladder cancer.
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...that the most crowded place in Europe is Holland.
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...the word antidisestablishmentairialism is in my new dictionary.
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...that a great storm is due to hit the East of England in about 7 hours time. Waves are set to strike the coast at 3 metres above normal levels, coinciding with the high tide, and the large number of tributarys are set to flood large tracks of land.
Flood barriers are in position to protect London.
Flood barriers are in position to protect London.
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...the storm struck the East of England: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6272193.stm
Massive storm seems to have hit Germany and other parts of Europe.
Story dated January 07.?????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Hi nioka, I don't know what happened there, anyway, this report should be up to date: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/ne...51.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&nol_storyid=6276651&news=1
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90% of all plastics are made from oil, gas or coal.
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Ah, but can you use it in a sentence, Noirua????
The symptoms of pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism, an inherited disorder, is not the consequence of pseudohypoparathyroidism or the lung disease Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconios, but more likely influenced by the unsettling behaviour of antidisestablishmentarialism.
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Today is Armistice Day :
I purposely placed this here as some people are sick of hearing about war.A bit past the hour too.
I purposely placed this here as some people are sick of hearing about war.A bit past the hour too.
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To finish for Armistice Day just gone. A poem by Rudyard Kipling that is mean't for all those who lost loved ones in the very many wars to save us: http://home.clara.net/stevebrown/html/expeience_of_war/kipling_my_boy_jack.htm
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...that after suffering, Foot & Mouth, blue tongue and floods. East England, East Anglia have now been struck with the H5 strain of bird flu and further tests are being carried out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm
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...that the first gold license in Australia was issued in Victoria on 21st September 1851.
...that the first printed map of Australia was printed in Belgium in 1593.
...that gold was discovered in Victoria just two weeks after the new State was formed and they broke away from NSW. The new town was known in Victoria as "Coincidence" and by NSW as "Funny that".
...that the first printed map of Australia was printed in Belgium in 1593.
...that gold was discovered in Victoria just two weeks after the new State was formed and they broke away from NSW. The new town was known in Victoria as "Coincidence" and by NSW as "Funny that".
