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  1. Blackleaf

    Happy New Year 2021

    Here's Beijing seeing in 2021. Doesn't look fake to me:
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    Prime viewing for Quadrantids meteor shower early Sunday

    That sounds great! I'm not getting one of those cheap £40 ones from Argos. I'll have to save up my money.
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    Prime viewing for Quadrantids meteor shower early Sunday

    I'm planning on buying a telescope so I can go out in the gardens and look at Betelgeuse and Sirius and the Orion Nebula and others. Out there on a cold winter's night with a few beers and with a big pan of corned beef hash bubbling away on the stove.
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    Prime viewing for Quadrantids meteor shower early Sunday

    I've got my new 2021 Hubble Space Telescope calendar on my kitchen door. For January it has a photo of the galaxy NGC 2841, which is 46 million light years away. It's basically a 46 million year old photograph. In comparison, our nearest large galaxy, Andromeda, is 2 million light years away...
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    Realistic facial recreations of Roman emperors

    It's not that they weren't good. It's just that they made have made certain emperors look more handsome than they actually were, similar to how some portraits of the Tudor era made monarchs look better looking than they were. One of those emperors could have had a whopping great mole on his...
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    Realistic facial recreations of Roman emperors

    Yeah. They would have been painted. I still wonder, though, how accurate the statues are as facial representations.
  7. Blackleaf

    Happy New Year 2021

    Sod the Chinese!
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    Happy New Year 2021

  9. Blackleaf

    Britain leaves the European Union

    What happened to all that 'Brexageddon' we were told would unfold?
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    Realistic facial recreations of Roman emperors

    Realistic Facial Recreations of Roman Emperors Using AI and Photoshop
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    Britain leaves the European Union

    Brexit Britain set to rebuild ravaged economy quickly by becoming 'trading superpower'
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    Britain leaves the European Union

    MICHEL BARNIER has admitted Brexit is a "failure for the EU", with the bloc facing a huge blow after losing a country with "a dynamic defence, foreign policy and economy".
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    Last Christmas by Wham! reaches No1 for first time

    I've just woken up from a weird dream involving George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley.
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    Prime viewing for Quadrantids meteor shower early Sunday

    Hopefully it'll be a clear night tonight and I'll nip out into the yard and see if I can see some of them. There's not much light pollution here.
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    Britain leaves the European Union

    Independent Britain bans EU pulse fishing in its waters
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    Last Christmas by Wham! reaches No1 for first time

    "Randy Andy" the press called him in the Eighties.
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    From worm-charming to bun-throwing... the age-old traditions Britons can't wait to restart in 2021

    This is an ancient Leicestershire custom with two distinct parts. The first is a charity dole and the second is a mass “ballgame” played with small wooden casks called bottles. The fun starts with a procession led by the Warrener with his hare-topped staff and his attendants with baskets of...
  18. Blackleaf

    What are you listening to right now?

    Paul McCartney - "When Winter Comes" (2020)
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    Last Christmas by Wham! reaches No1 for first time

    "Last Christmas" by Wham! has reached No1 in the UK singles chart for the first time since it was released in 1984. Formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1981 at Bushey Meads School in Hertfordshire, Wham! was one of the most successful pop groups of the Eighties. The other two...
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    Britain leaves the European Union

    OUTRAGEOUS Anti-England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nicola McKrankie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wont Shut Up 🤐 EVEN NYE 🇬🇧