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25 Oct 2015
Come what may
I know
Time will change nothing
And I shall miss you
Just as much tomorrow
As I did yesterday
And I do today
#poetheme
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USA No.1 on this day in 1987: Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On youtu.be/xJZF-skCY-M?si=75qpā¦ via @YouTube
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Four lads having a dawn stroll around the Pier Head, Liverpool.
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16th-century Italian handmade wooden cabinet. by alainmichelantiquite
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13 June 1920. US Post Office Department ruled that children could no longer be sent by parcel post. Before that time, provided a child weighed less than 50 lbs you could simply affix stamps to their clothing and send them off from a post office to a nominated address.
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13 June 1922. US citizen Charlie Osborne began a bout of hiccups. He hiccuped continuously from that day until 1990. According to the Guinness Book of World Records this is the longest bout of the hiccups ever recorded.
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Canada geese walking down the Dock (Waterloo) Road, Liverpool.
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Defra Trail Hunting Consultation
š¦ If you do one thing for wildlife today, please do this NOW
Please share this post and encourage your friends, family and colleagues to take part before the consultation closes on 18th June.
Together, we can make a difference for Britain's wildlife.
Have your say here: consult.defra.gov.uk/.../traā¦
Save Me Trust Link savemetrust.co.uk/our-work/aā¦
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The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice
And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense
Such a tiresome waste of time
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11 June 1960. The 1st reference to āThe Beatlesā came in a newspaper report of a concert at the Neston Institute in the Birkenhead News. The group were billed in the concert poster as āThe Silver Beatlesā.
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Immeuble FĆ©lix Potin is an Art Nouveau building from 1904 in Paris designed by Paul Auscher (1866-1932).
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"For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New Yorkās Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trumpās family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle." nytimes.com/2026/06/09/worldā¦
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Jun 9
Thwaite village England š“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ
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Tearoom that's also a cottage š”
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8 June 1967. Israeli airplanes attacked the US ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean during the 6-Day War: 34 crew were killed. The ship was in international waters when hit. The Israeli and US government inquiries ruled it a mistake, but some studies reckon it was deliberate.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. German Kaiser Wilhelm II smoking a cigarette (1913) š· Oscar Tellgmann.
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