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Tell me about the UEFA Champions League

Name the tournament that doesn't just have champions taking part - and isn't a league This complete guide to this season's football blockbuster includes links to the websites of all competing teams.11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

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Some busy threads... Currently taxing some of the best minds on the site! - Smelly Dogs - Mysterious plant - Apostrophes - Planes vs wind - Pickled Lenin - The mothman - Hyundai advert - War with11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

The Good Hotel Guide

It does what it says on the cover - and has done for 26 years.11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

Cor Baby, it's John Otway

He hasn't had a hit for 25 years. That's about to change - and how!11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

Can you track down...

Goal of the Month music the banned Tango advert Thorpe Park's Colossus an old Dubbonet advert11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

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Ships of the Great War how best to lay decking Non-stick coatings on pans Dave Clark Five LP covers 11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

Up Up And Away

A new book tells the story of our pursuit of the sky11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

For Every Generation

According to Gap anyway, even people who look like this can wear jeans11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

HEADLINE

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On the death of Alan Lomax

Leadbelly (pictured) was one of the thousands of musicians first recorded by Alan Lomax, who has just died at the age of 87. But what impact could one 'ethnomusicologist' have on popular music in the11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

In search of a little piece of heaven on earth

The fabulous city of Shangri-La has taken on mythical proportions. But China's claims to have discovered it (and to have made it a tourist destination) should be treated sceptically: the city was11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

On the UK's next European Capital of Culture

Birmingham, Bristol, Inverness, Norwich, Oxford... just some of the twelve cities in England, Scotland and Wales hoping to get the nod as European Capital of Culture in 2008. All very exciting, but11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

The Man Who Touched The Sky

A newly-published book tells the story of one Joe Kittinger, who floated by balloon to the very edges of space... then stepped out of the balloon and fell to earth, nearly 20 miles below. Yes, he was11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

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The music from the Gamecube TV commercial

TV commercials used to feature hits we all knew and loved. Then they started to feature popular new bands. And now the new Nintendo Gamecube ad is set to turn ad composer Vince Pope into a popstar.11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

The music from the T-Mobile advertising campaign

Norwegians have been a little slow in producing music that anyone else might care to listen to - just think Eurovision - but R yksopp are changing all that. And they've started by providing the music11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

"I'm Sticking With You, Cos I'm Made Out Of Glue"

If it's been driving you mad, let us put you out of your misery!11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003

On the music from the Lexus advert

Martin Grech has been the talk of The Answerbank with his music from the Lexus commercial. With his debut CD hitting the shops, we find out more about a musician so young his childhood heroes those11:12 Mon 10th Mar 2003