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IF our memory serves us right, there is supposed to be a ‘No Smoking’ law in public motor vehicles and public places. There was a big song and dance when it was launched several years ago. It seems authorities love to blurb this and that every now and then but no action to enforce. No one seems to be walking the talk.
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WE still have careless, self-centered citizens smoking in PMV’s and public places. How do we describe such people? They need to be taught a lesson!
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WE keep suggesting and will continue; for city authorities to consider closing the turn-off along Waigani Drive in front of Theodist. That should help with the traffic queue during peak hours.
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EXTINCT since the mid-20th century, the pig-footed bandicoot was a small, mostly herbivorous marsupial of the plains of inland Australia. About the size of a kitten, the pig-footed bandicoot had large, pointed ears, a long tail, long, slender limbs, and, as its name suggests, hoof-like nails on its forefeet and hind legs, making it unique among marsupials. Though its decline coincided with the arrival of Europeans, the cause of its extinction remains uncertain.
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In the midst of WWI, German saboteurs demolished a US munitions stockpile in the Black Tom section of Jersey City, New Jersey. The series of massive explosions killed a few, injured hundreds, damaged all sorts of structures, including the Statue of Liberty, and was heard hundreds of miles away., the German government was ultimately ordered to pay $50 million in damages.
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SISTER of writers Charlotte and Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë was an English author who is most famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, a highly imaginative story of passion and hatred set on the Yorkshire moors. Emily’s unusual character and intellect seem to have been unrecognised by her family until quite late in her short life – she died at 30 of tuberculosis – but Charlotte was astonished by her poetry and regarded her work as unparalleled.
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IN 1906, a bologna maker named T. J. Minnie set up his shop in Yale, Michigan. Over the next several decades, a number of other bologna makers settled in Yale, but today only one remains: C. Roy Inc., which produces Yale Bologna. The annual Bologna Festival, established in 1989, is designed to attract true bologna lovers with its booths serving bologna rings, bologna hot dogs, bologna and sauerkraut, and fried bologna sandwiches.
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QUOTE of the day: The more you reason the less you create. – Raymond Chandler
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