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'Next up - fire', say Welsh. It is time After being crowned the best rugby union team apart from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, national pride is at its highest since 1973 when a Pontypridd teenager gained an ‘O’ level in maths by mistake. Cardiff-based druid elder Tom Logan said: “When we won the Five Nations back in 1911, we celebrated by finally managing to count to five.

“If there is one thing our country has lacked over the years, apart from electricity and a proper language, it’s an all-encompassing and easily-wounded pride that has no foundation in reality. “If we can just master the naked flame, we might be on to something.” Previous experiments with fire have gone disastrously wrong for Wales, with an attempt to light a cooker leading to the formation of Anglesey.

Meanwhile inhabitants have had to rely on lightning strikes to spark jealously-guarded fires which are then huddled around by up to 750,000 people at a time. Pronunciation of pleochromatism - how to pronounce pleochromatism correctly. This site uses Copyright © Tim Bowyer 2006-14 • All rights reserved U.S. Patent No. 20040162719 • Howjsay in: Deutsch • Français • Italiano • Español • Requests, Errata etc. The internet of things | Are you ready for the Internet of Things?

How Much Do Your Friends' Facebook Apps Know About You? Even if you never connect your Facebook account to a single app, dozens of them may still have access to your profile information via your Facebook friends. When your Facebook friends connect new apps, the list of permissions they approve can include access to not just their own information, but also specific information from your profile — including your birthday, status updates, photos, hometown, current city and app activity.

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He denied that pensioners were being hit to pay for a tax cut for the very rich. He argued that the 50p rate was a "tax con" which did not raise enough money to justify the "enormous damage" it was doing to the economy. True Facts. Facts - interesting, provocative, well-seasoned One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes.

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There was also a new UK spark length record and over twenty high voltage enthusiasts from across the UK. As usual the weather was bright and sunny on the day, so it was hard to get good conditions for photography, but there was no shortage of bright long arcs ! Corby 2000 Teslathon lineup. More pictures from this years event (and previous events) can be seen at Mike Harrison's web site. Corby 2000 UK Video tape: UK coilers can purchase a 40 minute amateur video of the event, (from which these pictures were captured,) for a cost of 5 pounds, (This includes the PAL VHS tape and postage.)

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