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David Long

Bizarre England

  • Марияmembuat kutipan4 tahun yang lalu
    Who knew, for example, that Her Majesty the Queen uses her handbag to send coded messages to members of staff, or that she was once barred from an event at Windsor by a castle guard who mistook her for ‘some old dear’ who had lost her way?
  • Olga Subbotinamembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    rope, courtesy of the Crusaders, they were grown only by monks for medicinal use and to make jam.
  • Olga Subbotinamembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Mink frequently kill more than they eat, and treat their supposedly secure pens like hotels
  • Kristina Pastschenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    ‘I haven’t been down there myself but from what I gather the aliens are very advanced.’
    William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, eighth Earl of Clancarty (1911–95)
  • Kristina Pastschenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    That’s history. I say history because it happened in the past.’
  • Kristina Pastschenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Besides cricket the English invented a whole bunch of other sports, too – so many indeed that really the only surprise is that we rarely win at anything
  • Kristina Pastschenkomembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Badminton: Originally known as ‘battledore and shuttlecock
  • Bibi Kosherovamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    valuable natural preservative
  • Bibi Kosherovamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    As he’d just finished ransacking various monasteries in an attempt to raise funds to fight his father this early demise may have been no bad thing.
  • Bibi Kosherovamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    could ill afford
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