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einsteinsdog | 23:49 Mon 31st Oct 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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"Pouring oil on troubled water" is a quote from 'Historia Ecclesiastica' by the Venerable Bede (673 - 735) an Anglo-Saxon historian and theologian.
07:26 Tue 01st Nov 2005
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it also works!!


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725131.000.html


10:22 Tue 01st Nov 2005
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unless you're a penguin!
15:09 Fri 04th Nov 2005

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