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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 Jan 17
I decided to get some shopping in and headed for a supermarket near the Preston North End football stadium, being careful to go mid-match to avoid crowded buses full of fans going to and from the game.
Online I ordered my own...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
27 Jan 17
Various editions
The definitive Dystopian vision of a totalitarian future Britain, as scary and relevant today as on publication in 1948. Its title simply swapped round the four and eight to set the work in the not too distant...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
20 Jun 16
There are several pubs bearing the name Moon Under Water, supposedly based on the Moonrakers’s legend of drunks seeing the moon reflected in a lake after dark and thinking it was drowning. In some versions of the story the men end...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
19 Dec 15
H G Wells had predicted not only the invention of the aero plane, but also that its development would create a new international age of science and technology that would cause the nationalistic Fascism and Communism to melt way....
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
14 Sep 15
Wigan Pier used to be so hard to locate that many people living outside Wigan wondered if Orwell had made it up in his famous study of homelessness, The Road To Wigan Pier. It is a real place, actually a former Leeds & Liverpool...
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ShepherdSpy
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
21 Jul 09
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/
A disadvantage of the Kindle ebook reader has surfaced...You may have thought you bought and paid for a book you wanted to read on the device,but...
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xfahctor
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
8 Mar 09
Ok, so the group arrested was charged with money laundering and possesion of an automatic weapon, in that aspect, they clearly broke the law. However, What I take issue with is how the investigators classified this group. Why?...
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xfahctor
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
22 Nov 08
Here it is folks, the home grown terrorism and radicalization prevention act. Introduced several time in some form over the last 2 years, this time, it passed the house, Oct 23rd. This article makes some interesting comparrisons...
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