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Letter concerning the gift of two lions to the President of the United States of America
We discovered the original of this amazing letter in the American Legation in Tangiers...
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Recollections of time recently spent in French North Africa
Where does one start? The linear travelogue has been well ploughed for this week already, Spoox’ dry understatement the perfect counterpoint to Knifton’s wild eyed hyperbole. Dry and hyperbolic, Morocco was both. For my part I shall start on the terrace of a café on the edge of the Kasbah of Tangiers, on a hot dusty afternoon late last week.
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Work Related - Legal (Training) Advice
Has anyone had, or does anyone know of, such a thing as some sort of crash course in basic civil court proceedural training ( Read more... ) -
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You know how you see something advertising a night that looks reeeeaaaallly cool - but you're not really sure you can justify the time/expense/effort so you kinda oscilillate for a bit even though you know you want to go really?
WELL THIS ONE'S FOR CHARITY BITCHES - NO FURTHER EXCUSE REQUIRED!
See you there.
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Brown's fury as RAF personnel ordered not to wear uniforms in public
Peterborough's Conservative MP Stewart Jackson said he thought the RAF may have overreacted. "I think it could have been the case that there was some abuse of military personel by a very very small number of people," he said. Defence minister Derek Twigg told Five Live said he believed it was "a tiny minority of people" responsible for such abuse ( Read more... )
