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  1. Blackleaf

    End the Lockdown

    Depeche Mode - "Where's the Revolution?" (2017)
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    Where is Canada in this 😤

    Nice to see Britain continuing doing her own free trade deals nearly two years after leaving the EU. Couldn't do that for 47 years.
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    God's Relational Presence

    There's a young Brazilian woman in work who told me that she lived in Ohio for a few years and had no trouble understanding Americans as they spoke but now that she lives in Britain she has trouble understanding us. She finds British English much harder than American English. She says Americans...
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    China 🇨🇳 now has the largest navy in the world 😮

    I'll reword it for a simpleton like you: only three countries possess blue-water navies and they are the United States, the United Kingdom and France. China doesn't.
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    China 🇨🇳 now has the largest navy in the world 😮

    China is a regional power. The USA, Britain and France are the only three countries that can project massive power anywhere around the globe.
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    China 🇨🇳 now has the largest navy in the world 😮

    China isn't a global military power like the USA, Britain and France. It can't project its power far beyond its borders unlike the other three. China could win s war in its own backyard against those other three powers but would struggle to do so further afield.
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    First example of Roman crucifixion found in UK

    Roman crucifixion: First example in UK found in Cambridgeshire BBC News Wednesday 8th December 2021 The skeleton of the crucified man was uncovered alongside other burials The first example of a Roman crucifixion in the UK has been unearthed in a small Cambridgeshire village, archaeologists...
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    Space Thread

    That's the Orion Nebula, just below Orion's Belt. You can see it with the naked eye, but it appears to the naked eye as just a star, because it's far away.
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    COVID-19 'Pandemic'

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    center seat 55 years star trek

    Why did the Frenchman Picard speak with a Yorkshire accent?
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    Omicron

    "Omicron b" is an an anagram of "no crimbo." "Crimbo" is British slang for "Christmas".
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    Trump 2024

    Tonight at 7pm as part of a two-hour GB News special, Nigel Farage sits down with his long-term friend Donald Trump, where nothing is off limits: Donald Trump's views on the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, and Prince Harry - where he does not hold back. What does Donald Trump think of Boris...
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    Soccer 20/21

    England and Italy are the two best national sides in Europe right now.
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    Soccer 20/21

    England 20-0 Latvia Ellen White became England's top scorer as the Lionesses thrashed Latvia women's side 20-0 - yes, 20-0 - to make her tally 48 goals in 101 games. She scored 3 goals in the match. It is the Lionesses' record competitive victory. The other goalscorers were Mead (3), Hemp...
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    Mystery as Santa hats appear on college chapel statues

    Mystery as Santa hats appear on college chapel statues BBC News 23 November 2021 Photographer Martin Bond said at least three hats could be seen on the chapel tower A photographer says he believes a "rascal student" is responsible for attaching festive hats to carved figures high on a...
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    Roman mosaic and villa complex found in Rutland farmer's field

    Roman mosaic and villa complex found in Rutland farmer's field BBC News Thursday 25th November 2021 The villa is thought to have been occupied by a wealthy individual from the late Roman period A Roman villa containing a rare mosaic that depicts scenes from Homer's Iliad has been found...
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    33 migrants die crossing the Channel from France to Britain

    Boris Johnson calls on France to smash slave gangs who are 'getting away with murder' as at least 33 migrants including five women and a girl drown in deadliest-ever Channel crossing after French police sit and watch boats leave their shore Boris Johnson has called on France to smash slave...
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    33 migrants due crossing the Channel from France to Britain

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    What are you listening to right now?

    Slipknot - "The Chapeltown Rag" (2021) The heavy metal band's new single is about the recently deceased Yorkshire Ripper
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    Replica Sutton Hoo ship could change view of Anglo-Saxons say builders

    Replica Sutton Hoo ship could change view of Anglo-Saxons say builders BBC News 21st November 2021 Two finished pieces of the replica ship were recently joined together and work will now begin to clad it Volunteers constructing a full-size replica of an Anglo-Saxon king's burial ship said it...