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Ann’s Story: Chapter Twenty One ‘New Frontiers’

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Yellow Magpie’s Saturday Serial continues with Chapter Twenty. You can read chapter one,  two and three here. Ann was becoming increasingly despondent as the days passed quickly into months and she still hadn’t found a job.The six months grace she had promised she would give herself were almost up and the future was still very uncertain.

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Saturn’s Moon Dione: The Ice-Cliffed Satellite

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A spherical ball with numerous scars, we are only beginning to understand the frozen world of Dione. As of yet we do not know what it is made from, what structures lay beneath its surface or what other secrets its harbours. But we are beginning to get there…

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Marc Martel: A Pavarotti Of Contemporary Music?

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Every once in a while a rare occurrence happens. A talent emerges with the potential to redefine standards and elevate their chosen field to dizzying heights. In the classical music world the most obvious example of this was Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti appeared to be able to produce the most glorious of sounds without any effort whatsoever on

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Macarons: The Chic French Confection

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MACARONS are very ‘on trend‘ in France and have a cult following who adore the delicate flavour of these sweet pastel-coloured treats. People are often seen queuing outside Ladurée on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees to purchase Macarons which sell at around thirteen euro for six. So what makes macarons so yummy and popular? Well for

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Walt Disney Quotes: The Disney Creator’s Thoughts

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‘All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.’

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Starsuckers Review: Plenty Of Bluster But No Substance

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Director: Chris Atkins. Cast: Max Clifford and Richard Curtis. Starsuckers provides an insight into the highly complicated, converging world of media and public relations. The documentary shows us the murky side of journalism and how the truth is often very far removed from what makes it into print. The biggest success of Starsuckers is its

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Ann’s Story: Chapter Twenty ‘Close Encounters Of Pleasurable Kind’

Saturday Serial

Yellow Magpie’s Saturday Serial continues with Chapter Twenty. You can read chapter one,  two and three here. Thelma seemed to think that Ann spending the night with her former boss while she was pretending to be someone else was hilarious. After a while Ann also began to see the funny side. Though she was dreading the

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Walt Disney: The Individual That Lay Beneath The Mask

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Image is perhaps the most crucial component in human life. We base so much of our daily activities around appearances often without being aware of what is occurring. We use image and appearance to immediately identify what is right and wrong and what is safe and good. More critically it is also used to distinguish

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