Protect ALL of the people from the will of SOME of the people. Democracy not electoral dictatorship, majority rule within framew |
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The power of a written constitution.... |
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Poem - Ech day me comëth tydinges thre |
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Poem - Somer is y-comen in |
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Poem - Miri it is while sumer i-last With foulës song |
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Poem - Foulës in the frith, The fishës in the flod |
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Poem - Westron wynde, when wylt thow blow The smalle rayne downe can rayne? |
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The Lie of the Land |
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The vultures of Spain, however, skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy.… |
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Found on film: the last survivor of the final slave ship from Africa to the US |
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Poem - The Last Time |
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Quote - You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting |
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Burns Day |
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Lughnasa, Calan Awst the Calends of August |
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Allantide |
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Beautiful sunrise on the beach at Longrock, Cornwall. |
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Quote - Farewell, poor world, I must be gone. Thou art no home, no rest to me. I take my ship and travel on till I a better worl |
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Europe |
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Quote - Inevitably. When you’re asked to buy a pig in a poke, first question should be “why does this pig have to be inside... |
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Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov day |
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Sunrise and Moonrise on the same day. With the #HarvestMoon rising behind St Michaels mount in Cornwall this evening |
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It's good for the soul to be responsible for something or someone |
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1755 Earthquake at Lisbon causes Tsunami for Cornwall |
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POINT ME TO HEAVEN WHEN THE FINAL CHAPTER COMES | Terry Pratchett | Mail on Sunday, 2 August 2009 |
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The BBC series of Quatermass and the Pit is up on the iPlayer for the next few months |
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1912 | Science Notes and News. COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE |
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ALBA a whole country in 3 minutes |
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Quote - Learning to fill your empty places... |
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Quote - The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money |
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1st March.—In Mid-Cornwall, people arise before the sun is up, and sweep before the door to sweep away fleas |
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Renewing the Water Bounds at Truro.... |
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A Delicate Truth |
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Almost two-fifths (38%) of particulate matter comes from domestic wood burners and open fires, used by 7.5% of homes |
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1646 | Cornvbia sive Cornwallia | Joan Blaeu |
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Marvellous Magnolias |
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Heligan Rhododendron Time Lapse |
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Bees and Echinops |
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Chernyobl 26th April 1986 |
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Godrevy view |
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March: Storm Moon |
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If weather on February 1 is bright and sunny, so can gather plenty of firewood - winter will continue! |
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If St. Paul’s day be fair and clear, It doth betide a happy year; If blustering winds do blow aloft. Then wars will trouble our realm full oft; And if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain |
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St Peter’s Day Lore |
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Explosion at Dynamite Towans |
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Word(s) of the day: "zawn" - wave-smashed cleft or chasm in a sea-cliff (from Cornish sâwn/sawan) |
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Word(s) of the day: "rionnach maoim"...'the moving shadows cast by clouds on moorland on a sunny, windy day'. Such compressed el |
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Winnol Weather.... |
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Clay |
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