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Ann’s story: Chapter Twenty-Three ‘First Day’

Saturday Serial

Yellow Magpie’s Saturday Serial continues with Chapter Twenty-Three. You can read chapter one,  two and three here. Ann was gobsmacked when she was offered the job. She had received a call from business manager, John, and was now on her way to her first day as personal assistant to one of the most successful and popular

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Blue Whale: The World’s True Giant

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There is no getting away from the enormity of the blue whale. Its behemoth mass plays tricks on you. In fact, you could be easily forgiven for thinking that something this gigantic, this monstrous couldn’t surely be alive? But it is alive and not alone that, its sleek aerodynamic shape means its incredibly mobile too. Despite weighing

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Fin Whale: The Giant Speedster Of The Oceans

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Onlookers on a boat witness a rare sight. A sleek object darkens the surface of the water from below. It moves rapidly and cuts through the liquid medium. It’s elongated snout cleaving the water apart. The object briefly surfaces and bellows out a plume of water. With a flick of its gigantic tail it submerges

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Hyperion: Saturn’s Irregular Moon

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Sometimes words fail us in describing panoramas. Odd, weird, bizarre, strange, these words just seem incapable of doing justice to the vista of Hyperion. The physical appearance of the moon just defies easy classification. A unique place in a Solar System filled with singular objects, there are occasions when the phrase a picture speaks a

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Contagion Film Review: A Few Characters Too Many

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Director: Steven Soderbergh Cast: Matt Damion, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law and Laurence Fishburne. Contagion is set in a world in which a seemingly unstoppable mutated virus with a high mortality rate is sweeping all across the Earth. With deaths accruing everywhere, panic runs amok causing normal everyday society to stop functioning as survival

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Pablo Picasso Quotes: The Cubist Artist’s Impressions

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‘Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.’

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Thomas Edison Quotes: Illuminating Thoughts From The Inventor

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‘Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.’

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Odd News Stories: Moons, UFOs, Expensive Parking Tickets And The Transforming Donkey

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The Man Who Thought The Moon Was A UFO In one of the most bizarre emergency 999 phone calls to the Hertfordshire police station in England a man reported mistakenly seeing a UFO when he was in fact looking at the Moon.

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