Rowland Croucher
Gaza Bloodshed
Lessons for us all in Gaza bloodshed Mirko Bagaric From: The Australian January 02, 2009 THERE’S a lot of rhetoric from both sides in the latest Middle East war, but in the carnage there are two incontrovertible truths the world can learn that will lead to a diminution in net future human suffering. The first […]
Best Urban Legend?
Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky! Claim: Neil Armstrong cryptically uttered “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky” as he first stepped onto the moon. FALSE Read the intriguing story here – http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.asp
Ever heard of Jemmy Hirst?
Jemmy Hirst (1738 ¢â‚¬“1829) was an English eccentric. James “Jemmy” Hirst was born to a farmer family of Rawcliffe, Yorkshire. Even at school he kept a pet jackdaw and trained a hedgehog to follow him around. His parents’ hope that he would become a priest never materialised when he was thrown out of school for his […]
Google helps Dead Sea Scrolls enter internet age
21 October 2010 The images will be published online for free Sixty years after a shepherd happened upon the Dead Sea Scrolls, a plan aims to bring them into the internet age. Researchers at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aided by scientists at Google, plan to image the 2,000-year old documents and publish them online. […]
Test Your Knowledge
Here is a fun way to test your knowledge … You need only 4 correct answers to pass. 1) How long did the Hundred Years’ War last? 2) Which country makes Panama hats? 3) From which animal do we get cat gut? 4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? 5) What is […]
When God said he loved all, he meant it
Bryan Patterson From: Sunday Herald Sun October 17, 2010 AMERICAN comic Lynn Lavner once observed that the Bible contained six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. “That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals,” she said. “It’s just that they need more supervision.” So where does religious homophobia spring from? Why do some […]
Foreign Aid: pros and cons
A couple of decades ago, the British government * gave 0.6% of GNP to overseas aid * but the nation spent 15 times that sum on alcohol and tobacco… * Half the aid was spent in the UK and * much of the rest comprised loans with substantial interest rates… (Source: Expository Times, April 1969, […]
Amazing legal sagas (which may or may not be true)
This is a true story and was the first place winner in a recent Criminal Lawyers Award listing: ONLY IN AMERICA!!! Here is a heart-warming lawyer story. An American lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars then insured them against fire among other things. Within a month having smoked his entire stockpile […]
Her hands…
The late Bishop Crotty told [this] true story. A girl of sixteen lay in hospital. She was the eldest child in a large, poor family. Her mother had died when the youngest child was born, and for years the girl had spent herself looking after the home and mothering the younger children. She had almost […]
Walking a defence against dementia
Walking could protect brain against shrinking, US research says Neurologists who monitored 300 volunteers over 13 years say walkers could be defending themselves against memory loss Martin Wainwright guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 19.15 BST The historian George Macaulay Trevelyan wrote in 1913 that he had two doctors: “My left leg and my right”. Now […]
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