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Captured by Hitler with Oliver Twist in the tower
Guards say here's pens and paper just sit down and work for an hour
O, Goodness, how can we escape? but it's not worthwhile
All I can do is smile.
Down gallons of glandular corridors of the dark castle
The pompous old bellman is tolling one...
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Much fun has been had over the past week at the expense of Harold Camping, the elderly American evangelist whose prediction of the "Rapture" – the taking up to heaven of the saved amid earthquakes and other manifestations of doom – turned out to be somewhat premature.
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Open source media reports that Al Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is currently engaging in an internal debate about formally appointing Anwar al-Awlaki as its leader. This debate is likely to have only one conclusion.
The timing of this debate is largely and deliberately...
The face of Jesus has been very busy, appearing on chicken feathers, a tea towel and a drainpipe among many other places – and it's come to light that it's also turned up on the end of a wooden log.
The log's owner, Mel Robertson, calls it the 'holy log' and says that she keeps it as a...
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Queen's University Classics professor emeritus Ross Kilpatrick believes the Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, incorporates images inspired by the Roman poet Horace and Florentine poet Petrarch. The technique of taking a passage from literature and...
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