Entertainment
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October 8: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a collection of light poetry about cats that TS Eliot had originally written…
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October 7: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentMichele Josue, who had been Shepard's friend and later created a documentary about him entitled 'Matt Shepard is A Friend…
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October 6: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentThe exoplanet's discovery was announced on October 6, 1995, by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva…
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October 5: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentThe title Monty Python's Flying Circus was partly the result of the group's reputation at the BBC. Michael Mills, the…
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October 4: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentHundreds of people were left homeless by the crash; the city's municipal buses were used to transport survivors to emergency…
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October 3: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentAlthough 10 men died during the course of the hunger strike, 13 others began refusing food but were taken off…
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Sue’s Views: Cranking out those carbon emissions
EntertainmentThis pleb will not be giving up her carbon-fuelled vehicle (circa 2004) anytime soon to hoof it to work some…
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October 2: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentSinton-Hewitt started the Bushy Park Time Trial in 2004 whilst unemployed and unable to run due to an injured leg.…
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October 1: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentThe accident involved a Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry-operated passenger ferry, the Sea Smooth and a Hongkong Electric Company-owned vessel…
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September 30: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentToward the end of her service, the hull and sail of Nautilus vibrated sufficiently that sonar became ineffective at more…
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September 29: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentOn 1 June 2007, Murilo Mendes, a Brazilian federal judge in the small city of Sinop, Mato Grosso, near the…
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September 28: On This Day in World History … briefly
EntertainmentFleming published his discovery in 1929, in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology, but little attention was paid to his…
