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Christopher Lee, actor who starred in many horror movies, and who was born on this day in England in 1922, shares his birthday with Dr Henry Kissinger,Nobel Prize Winner, and one time US Secretary of State who was born the following year in Germany.
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A drunk passenger who ran over and killed a taxi driver with his own cab has been found guilty of murder, at Maidstone Crown Court.
Luke Aujila, 21, argued with Gian Chand Bajar over the cab fare before he drove towards him as he lay hurt in the road in Gravesend, Kent, in May 2007.
Aujila, of [...]

Why the sudden rash of photographs from England? Well, quite simply I was going through all my photographs, and I found a few that I might be of interest to you, dear readers, who come from all over the world, in any case.
Also, I guess I wanted to show that the good ‘ole US [...]

It’s quite an imposing building, and it’s tied to one of my all-time favorite breweries, Fuller, Smith and Turner of nearby Chiswick, but alas, it’s a dire place to drink, particularly at night.
About the only good thing you can say is that it seems to keep the rabble out of the much nicer, and smaller, [...]

It’s a fairly common small kitchen appliance. I guess quite a number of you have them. To be honest I resisted for ages. Why? I cannot see the point of buying yet another space-robbing gadget when I can make perfectly good rice in a regular saucepan or even in the microwave.
So why did we get [...]