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  1. Blackleaf

    The White and Gold, Black and Blue Dress is Immortalized in a Tattoo

    It's white and gold. Those numpties who say it's black and blue really do need to visit the opticians. Either that or become a Premier League referee.
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    Boy, 8, calls newspaper staff 's---holes' for discontinuing comics

    I'd bend the gobby little tyke over my knee and give him a damned good thrashing.
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    Did this medieval knight die while jousting?

    A medieval man, who may have been a knight, died from injuries sustained from jousting, marks on his skeleton suggest. The remains were found at Hereford Cathedral and show signs of injury to the right shoulder as well as fractured ribs. Experts said the wounds are all consistent with injuries...
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    Weasel hitches a ride on a woodpecker's back

    Amateur photographer Martin Le-May, from Essex, has recorded the extraordinary image of a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker as it flies through the air. The photograph was taken at Hornchurch Country Park in east London on Monday afternoon. Speaking to BBC...
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    Richard III excavation: Body found at site 'was a woman'

    A coffin-within-a-coffin discovered next to Richard III's remains in Leicester contained a woman who could have been an early Church benefactor, experts have said. The lead coffin in a stone sarcophagus was found in the same car park as the king and was initially thought to be a...
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    Royal Mint unveils new coinage portrait of the Queen

    The Royal Mint has unveiled a new coinage portrait of the Queen. It shows a side profile of the 88-year-old monarch wearing a crown and drop earrings. It is only the fifth definitive coin portrait to have been created during her 63-year reign. Coins featuring the...
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    Global Warming: still the ‘Greatest Scam in History’

    And it's absolutely FREEZING - and I mean FREEZING - here today. It is so dark outside it looks like dusk and there are periodic showers of sleet then hail then sleet then hail then sleet then hail..... It just doesn't feel like the beginning of March at all. Must be Global Warming.
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    Archaeology student discovers 'outstanding' Anglo-Saxon pendant worth £50,000

    A first-year archaeology student has unearthed an Anglo-Saxon pendant of 'national significance' worth £50,000. Tom Lucking, 23, was stunned when he stumbled across an Anglo-Saxon grave on farmland near Diss, Norfolk. He had been metal detecting since he was 11 but had only ever found common...
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    Rare English Civil War £1 coin expected to fetch £50,000 at auction

    An extremely rare £1 coin dating back to the start of English Civil War is expected to fetch £50,000 at auction. The solid silver 1643 Declaration Pound was struck in Oxford, which was Charles I's seat of power after he withdrew from London. Charles was beheaded just six years after the coin...
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    King John's teeth to be displayed at British Library

    Teeth extracted from a medieval English King will be displayed as part of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. Two molars belonging to King John, who granted the charter in 1215, will be displayed at the British Library alongside two copies of the document. The...
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    Sir Richard Owen: The man who invented the dinosaur

    The British scientist who coined the word "dinosaur" in 1842 and founded London's Natural History Museum has been honoured with a blue plaque at the Lancaster school he attended as a child. But who was Sir Richard Owen? Sir Richard Owen: The man who invented the dinosaur...
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    Prince William starts Japan tour as he completes Air Ambulance exam

    The Duke of Cambridge has arrived in Tokyo for a four-day visit to Japan. It was raining as he was greeted by students and school children on a visit to Tokyo's Hama Rikyu Gardens. Prince William is on a week long trip to China and Japan where he will undertake...
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    Argentina's new 'Malvinas' bank note ridiculed by Falkland Islanders

    A new 50-peso note which aims to bring "into daily use" the Argentine claim to the Falkland Islands has been mocked by residents of the islands. The new bank note will go into circulation next month, Alejandro Vanoli, president of the central bank, announced on Monday. The design of...
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    Three EU dreams that have turned into nightmares

    The EU's greatest acts of make-believe in recent years - the single currency, its asylum policy, and Ukraine - are coming back to haunt it, says Christopher Booker Three EU dreams that have turned into nightmares...
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    The difference between me and you is that you believe all the tosh - much of which has, in the past, been proven to be fake - that the "climate scientists" tell you. I don't. Therein lies the difference between me and you.
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    Stop mentioning the Cowtan video. His video has been shown to be wildly inaccurate. Your attempts to prove Mr Booker wrong by posting the Cowtan video have failed big time. I can't wait to the time when Warmist scientists are up in court for massively defrauding much of the public and...
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    And you expect me to believe what a Warmist like Mr Cowtan tells me? Don't be such a silly man. You may believe that Mr Cowtan's video has proven Mr Booker wrong. But here's one journalist who thinks Mr Cowtan's video is wrong and inaccurate: ‘Breathtaking’...
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    Here's some good analysis of the Warmist data. It still seems as though everything the Warmists tell us is not really true. You Warmists are conning us.... Climategate, the sequel: How we are STILL being tricked with flawed data on global warming Something very odd has been...
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    You choose to believe everything the Warmist scientists tell you even after the University of East Anglia incident. The difference between me and you is that you believe data which the Warmist "scientists" have almost certainly changed from showing global cooling - the true data of what is...
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    Climate-Denier Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Koch Brothers

    We'll find out what data is true and what isn't when that team looking into suspicious Warmist data, in which they appear to have changed data showing global cooling into global "warming", reports back with their finds.