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False Navigation Lights Abatement Act

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 Oct 18

My dictionary of ships & the sea refers to an important British Maritime Law that gives the authorities the right to order the extinguishing of any lights on coastal private property , indoors or outdoors, that shipping could...

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Movie Review – Jamaica Inn

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 11 Nov 16

Spoiler alerts - 1939 Daphne Du Maurier wrote the novel Jamaica Inn while staying in the real pub of that name in Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Thanks to the success of the book and this Hitchcock movie, the pub is still a major...

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Have you ever visited a place because of a rook that you have read?

oldchem1 @oldchem1 (8132) 22 Jun 10

I have to admit that I have done this several times!! After I read I Love Capri, I had to go to Capri!!, it was after reading My Family and Other Animals that I had the burning desire to go to Corfu and as a big fan...

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Did you know that Russia had a Sniffer cat to Catch Smugglers?

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 10 Dec 09

I found this great story about a very clever cat. Rusik, the cat, walked into a police checkpoint a year ago as a stray kitten. The staff quickly adopted it, feeding it on scraps of sturgeon confiscated from smugglers. He learned...

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And Now For Something Completely Different... A Seaside Amble!

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 18 Sep 07

Hey... and thank you so much to all my lovely friends who supported me through the past couple of weeks with their special words and their recent welcomes back! Already, some of you are nagging me for a walk, so I've decided to...

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beautiful sunset

early autumn evening

rocks and pebbles

rottingdean village

silhouettes and seagulls

the english channel

undercliff walk

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Neither Republicans nor Democrats seem to care about illegal immigration

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 23 Mar 07

If neither party are willing to defend our national integrity, why should we care if either of them stay in power? Millions of illegal aliens flaunt our laws every day. Two Border Patrol Agents are sitting in prison just for...

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