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Sunday, 11 December 2016
Forgotten Tablets.
No not the computing kind but tablets you take for your health conditions ,also known as pills.I often forget tablets and think i will be o.k but the next day my health goes downhill and if i forget main morning ones my health goes down badly.
Bed Socks.
Yes the time has come when i have succumbed to the dark side ,wearing bed socks to bed .Due to recent cold spell i had to make this decision with my wife,Enid,influence to start wearing said bed socks to bed.How sad am i but lest feet toasty .
Ice Bucket Challenge.
No not any old ice bucket but the one that launched the self soaking challenge.The ice bucket challenge raised 40 million for charity and is now on show in the Smithsonian Museum,Washington D.c ,America.
Saturday, 10 December 2016
Discover some of history's forgotten facts
You can’t imagine so; she taught you all about World Wars I and II, America’s past, and British history. But could you have missed something? What don’t you know? Was your high school history teacher wrong or, as in “When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank” by Giles Milton, was history merely hidden?
Say you’re looking in your cupboard for a plate, when you stumble across a china cup you’ve never seen before. Something similar happened to Giles Milton while he was researching one thing and found something else. History, he learned, is full of those little “historical nuggets.”
Take, for instance, when Winston Churchill explored the possibility of using biological weapons against the Nazis. He couldn’t, of course, experiment on humans, so he tried his methods on sheep. What happened affected an island off the coast of Scotland for the next 45 years.
And then there’s the Chevalier d’Eon, who was very much involved in espionage and politics for several countries in the late 1700s. As much as the Chevalier changed jobs, gender was also scandalously changed until few knew the truth. The Chevalier finally had herself legally declared female by French courts; it was only when she died that the truth was finally revealed.-Read More
Friday, 9 December 2016
scenes from the Arctic - polar bear filmed by Robert pearson
information-the bear is from his trip to the Arctic the above penguins are from the Antarctic his on the ship IOFFE which does all the trips completly russian crew and take the Franklin route im flying out to LA sunday but when i get back il post more story line for you if you look up ocean 1 which is who he works for you will see they contribute to all Arctic documentrys.
scenes from the Antarctic filmed by Robert pearson
information-the bear is from his trip to the Arctic the above penguins are from the Antarctic his on the ship IOFFE which does all the trips completly russian crew and take the Franklin route im flying out to LA sunday but when i get back il post more story line for you if you look up ocean 1 which is who he works for you will see they contribute to all Arctic documentrys.
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