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World War 1

What impact did World War 1 have on the U.S government's domestic policies?

Does anyone know how someone with no previous experience of fraud or bank robbery could get into this area of 'work'? Unfortunately I have no useful contacts in these areas (sofar as I know) & have no...

singapore54

Toby's nuts q3

Toby has been neutered on the 12/1/09. Does anyone know how long it takes for the testosterone to leave the system, as he's still scrapping and has some new wounds?

pauliwauli2

Can anyone translate this? French to English...

"Madame, Je transfert ce jour votre mail ? la Direction des Affaires M?dicales pour suite ? donner Vous en souhaitant bonne r?ception Le Service Contact Patients Groupe Hospitalier PITIE SALPETRIERE"

sigma

Left turn at roundabout.

The approach to an island has two lanes. The left hand lane is for left turn and straight on, the right hand lane is for turning right. If there is a substantial queue in the left hand lane and you...

fredpuli47

Crying out loud!

An exclamation of despair, frustration or anger is " For crying out loud!". It's understood, but what does it ,literally. mean? What does 'for' indicate? Is it 'for' as 'instead' so the speaker is...

BagPussAA

Strange Laws Defence

Has anyone ever used a strange (but still abiding) law and successfully argued their case or would more recent laws over rule it. The one I am thinking of is the law in York where it is legal to kill...

jake-the-peg

3 strikes and you're out

A lot of Newspapers seems to think this is a good idea in criminal justice. But should it apply to them? 3 sucessful libel cases against them in a year and they lose the right to publish?

claymore

middle earth?

how do I prove to someone that the earth is not the exact center of the universe? His argument is that the universe is the same everywhere we look and we don`t see further in one direction than...

nohorn

fox hunting

As an American, I was wondering what the fall-out has been in Great Britain after a few years has passed and whoev er it is that was doing the hunting the fox on horses, has stopped doing so, do they...

RacingLover

Pronounciations for Vincennes

I had a dictionary 20+ years ago. the entry for had 2 pronciations one in French(a district in Paris) and in English (somewhere in USA). Can anyone make the distinctions

Gromit

Stripper Arrested 22 times for impersonating Police

Police have spent ?170,000 of public money trying to prosecute a strippergram for playing an officer as part of his act. Stuart Kennedy, who performs under the stage name of Sergeant Eros, was last...

Whoever

Opposition to Heathrow Third Runway

If you want to join the opposition to Heathrow's third runway, on environment grounds, you can sign up to become a ' beneficial owner' (at no cost) of the plot which Greenpeace have bought, right in...

kitesurfer

so how many of you

have pets and yet eat meat? im just curious really. i dont mean any harm

SurreyGuy

Positioning of quotation marks in conjunction will full stops

When writing an article that contains a few continuous quotes, where does one put the full stops at the end of paragraphs in relation to the quotation marks? This is how I have written it, but someone...

4winds

nationality nicknames

I've just learned that a 'SWEATY / JOCK" is a Scottish person; I've heard a Welsh persons referred to as "TAFFY; Irish as "PADDY/ MICK". What is the equivalent term for an English person ? And do...

flobbergob

The Great Obama Islamic Conspiracy

So, Obama took the oath for a second time last night in the White House - BUT NO BIBLE! I remember thinking at the time that the oath might be invalid if the words were fluffed. Therefore the second...

bailey123

where is a nice place to live?

i'm looking for a nice place in england to move to, i don't want to live in the middle of the city or in the middle of nowhere, i like to be in the countryside but be close enough to shops and a good...

dave_c

Signs of evolution during recorded history?

Yes, they've been fossils that record evolution in pre-history. But has there been signs that evolution of any species of animal occurring during recorded history? I'm guessing the period of time for...