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Watching Castaway , with Tom Hanks, last Friday on the Teev reminded me that director Robert Zemeckis was once asked what was in the ...

* * * * * * * * * From yesterday’s online Daily Mail , an exchange of notes at the company lunchroom fridge, New Zealand: ...

* * * * * * * * The London Beer Flood happened on 16 October 1814 in the parish of St Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Co...