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Hundreds of geometric monuments unearthed deep in the Amazon may have been left behind by a previously unknown society, say scientists. Archaeologists have found more than 200 earthworks shaped as per…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: An Age of Magic
A lot of peopel scoff at the idea of the global warming issue. Well may they do because if you look at how cold it is in the UK right now you might wonder how on earth the planet is warming up anywher…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: An Age of Magic
It goes without saying that cases of deafness are rising alarmingly among young people and the blame for this is being laid squarely at the feet of the constant use of those devices you plug into your…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: An Age of Magic
Not too well by all accounts. While we have not been too badly affected by heavy snowfalls where we live other parts of the UK are well and truly ’snowed under’ if you’ll pardon the…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
It’s taken far, far too many months but at last we seem to be nearing the end of our kitchen completion. That means that we’re moving from considering structural things to looking at the m…
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When they first came out it was simple to tell a netbook from a notebook computer. The netbooks were much smaller (7″ screens were typical), didn’t have any hard disks and the batteries la…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Foreign Perspectives
Of course, for the pedants, the new decade actually starts on January 1st 2011 but, as with the millennium, I guess we may as well take the opportunity to celebrate twice. What a decade we’ve ha…
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Finally. After almost a whole year we have our new roof on the kitchen and no longer have to empty buckets after a rainy night. I have to say that the builders certainly worked fast too; the day after…
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Earth could be in peril from a large asteroid and a spacecraft may be needed to knock it off its path, the head of Russia’s space agency claimed today. Anatoly Perminov said the space agency wil…
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Santa brought me a new laptop in my xmas stocking – such a thoughtful guy he is. Actually I was thinking about getting a new updated version in the coming year but a few hints dropped here and t…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
The problem with insurance is that although we all know that we need it, we generally don’t want to think about it. Thus we have loads of insurance advertising that’s there not so much to…
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We’re getting on for half-way through the improvements in our kitchen now and starting to think about the bathroom at the moment. That’s one that’s going to be even more hassle than…
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Excited children who can’t quite wait for Christmas morning, can now track Santa’s progress around the world online. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) will be keeping ta…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
Although you may not have all your insurance renewals scheduled for January 1st, that dead time between Christmas and the New Year is a great time to look into scheduling new life insurance quotes and…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
This time of year businesses everywhere are in the thoes of shutting down their Christmas marketing and getting stuck into the “January” sales. That gives rise to a great opportunity of cl…
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My son is a strapping sixteen year old but very much like most males his age – well, any age for that matter. He hates having to go to the dentist or doctor even for check-ups and today he neede…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
If you’re like us I’m sure you prefer not to venture into the room with your furnace. Howevever, it doesn’t have to be like that if you renew your furnace filters. They’re the…
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Although it seems like a crazy time of year to be thinking of summer holidays this is very much the best time of year to be doing it. Daft as it may seem some people will be sitting in front of their…
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arnie7 has posted a new entry on: Financial & Travel Musings
One of the problems that we all have these days is that basic qualifications just aren’t enough to get us into the various schools that we’d like to go to. Instead, what we have are the li…
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