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British Line Of Succession - Prince William Of Gloucester

I recently watched a documentary about the extremely handsome and dashing Prince William of Gloucester (born 18th December 1941). He sadly died piloting his own light aircraft in 1972 at the age of...

LazyGun

Jade Rabbit Seeking Carrots On The Moon

1st moon landing in 37 years, unmanned lunar rover. Thought to be a prelude to a manned mission soon. More proof - if any more were needed - that China is now the worlds dominant superpower?...

in a mo

" You Daft Poltas " Any Ideas Please.

Our "Nan" used to use this expression quite often ,we have no idea where it originated ,any ideas please .Nan would have been 92 this year....

Jennykenny

Irish Great Uncle & Grandfather Signed Up For Ww1 In Army And Navy.

Finding it very hard to find out anything about how or why they signed up - presumably financial, but were there campaigns in Ireland to sign up local men? I appreciate that Ireland was part of Great...

Booldawg

Cyclist Killed By 'car-Dooring'

The defendent was found not guilty of manslaughter. He acted with undue care and attention - surely there must be some charge? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20725496...

quizzywig

Last Tango in Halifax

Just keeps getting better and better!

mikey4444

Secret State Channel 4

I have just watched the last episode of this excellent series on Channel 4. But I don't understand how it all turned out. Did he win the vote of confidence ? Can anybody help ?...

fduggan

The four football clubs in the U.K with no place names incorperated?

Hi everyone,a friend mentioned yesterday that back in the 80's there was a quiz question doing the rounds about 'which were the only 4 clubs in England and Scotland which didn't have a place name in...

percypineapple

NAME FOR BABY GIRL

Great grandaughter is 12 days old, no name yet. Her mum is looking for a soft, girlish name, but it must be unusual. Question is, could we make up a name ourselves? is it acceptable to do that, or is...

interele

Houses destroyed in Wars

If you had a house with a mortgage in the second world war and it got destroyed was there any compensation/write off of the mortgage or was it just tough and you had a mortgage on a big pile of bricks...

wonderwall23

whats your heritage?

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Le Chat

Religion & Evolution

I have been watching a fascinating documentary called "Prehistoric Autopsy" which has been centred around creating life size and accurate models of prehistoric man from bones found and...

VHG

Henry the 8th and Protestants

I have a surface level of knowledge of the Tudor period, and was always under the impression that when Henry 8th broke away from the catholic church to marry Anne Boleyn he then pushed England...

neil_loves_marie

nautical 111 year calendar

i've just been having a sort out where i have found 2 brass dials in a wooden box with an old yacht image on the front. inside the box are 2 brass dials. the 1 is a calendar that runs for 111 years...

CraigWhite

TOTAL RUBBISH

if homerule for scotland means that the programmes we get are scottish forget it ,the likes of river city and gary the tank commander,what a load of garbage,and how anyone can watch that miss jones...

Spacefaze

Is there any reason in the future why a similar balloon as yesterdays spacejump couldn't have a larger balloon and thrusters to go to the moon?

It would work out a lot cheaper and safer wouldn't it? Will this pave a new way to travel to space ( Even though it's not particularly new ) What are the possibilities?...

droopydrawers

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