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    Large mound may be built in central London

    Marble Arch ‘mound’ plan to lure visitors back to West End with 25m-high hill set to provide sweeping views The summit of the 25 metre high ‘Marble mound’ being created this summer will provide sweeping views of Hyde Park, Mayfair and Marylebone By Jonathan Prynn Consumer Business Editor...
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    Our cooling world

    #Amsterdam #skate #canal Amsterdam skaters fall through ice into frozen canal before being rescued In Britain we'd get arrested for doing such a thing as it's not a Government-sanctioned activity. The Dutch are just allowed to get on with their lives.
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    Britain leaves the European Union

    Imagine serving up Brussels sprouts for dinner and your children actually enjoying them. Or, as a nut-allergy sufferer, being able to spread peanut butter on your morning toast. Or helping prevent heart disease merely by eating a tomato. In the not-too-distant future these could become reality...
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    New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free

    My beliefs are nearly always Tien out right. Yours nearly always turn out wrong.
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    Boris and Biden Come Together

    'Is President Biden woke, Prime Minister'?
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    #BidenLied - buyer's remorse sets in

    DISASTER @ America 🇺🇸 Regret Joe Biden Already 😳 No Longer Home Of Free (Speech) BRING BACK TRUMP
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    Space Thread

    On a hot summer day in 1964 fireman Jim Templeton and his wife and daughter went for a day out at Burgh Marsh in Cumberland (now Cumbria), overlooking the Solway Firth, a body of water that forms part of the England/Scotland border. Jim decided to take a photo of his daughter - and when the...
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    What if Texas Was an Independent Country?

    There is one of two possibilities here. Either... 1) You'd have no problem with a country annexing parts of Canada or the United States, or; 2) If a country invaded Canada or the United States you'd be wanting that country to be kicked back out again and for those territories to be returned to...
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    What if Texas Was an Independent Country?

    So if the US invaded western Canada and annexed it you would just let them have it because "it belonged to the natives first"? If a country sent a massive armada over to the United States with the aim invading it and annexing it all the Americans should just allow them to take their country...
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    What if Texas Was an Independent Country?

    So there'd be nobody in Canada demanding to have that stolen territory back? Don't be silly. What's the difference between America stealing British and Mexican territory and America tomorrow taking over the whole of western Canada? There isn't a difference at all. I think the British and...
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    What if Texas Was an Independent Country?

    What if the US took over parts of Canada? You'd be demanding them back. So why can't we do the same? What makes you so different? It's right that America give back to Britain, Mexico and Spain our stolen territories. That'd be the right thing to do. I'm surprised neither of those countries have...
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    Covid21 How are you spending your free time?

    I'm still waiting to see if I've won the competition in my codewords puzzle book.
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    Biden Addresses Racism Against Asians

    Korean eyes slope downwards like Japanese eyes. Thai eyes slope upwards like Chinese eyes. Thai Han Chinese
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    Black History Month In Canada

    If you were to have a special time dedicated to all the inventions and discoveries and achievements of the white male you'd need a lot more than a month.
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    Biden Addresses Racism Against Asians

    I was taught at school that Chinese eyes slant upwards and Japanese eyes slant downwards and that some Japanese people have double eyelids.
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    Biden Addresses Racism Against Asians

    I can't either. The Chinese all look identical.
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    Black History Month In Canada

    Black History Month; a few myths debunked
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    New Zealand lifts all Covid restrictions, declaring the nation virus-free

    I can't believe you still believe in lockdown after all this time.