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Always remember:

"A poem a day keeps the doldrums away!"

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The Cowboy Way There's some things that's wrong An' there's some things that's right At least, that's what I allus say An' when y'kin tell it An' choose what's the right Yer livin' the Cowboy Way Y'don't cheat at cards Y'don't steal a man's drink It's wrong t'make fun of a child Y'don't stay a settin' When ladies come in Y'don't run around bein' wild It's wrong t'shoot game Jist t'see if y'kin Y'don't pass off a coin that's a fake It's right t'give praise When y'see somethin' good To admit when you've made a mistake Y'don't sleep in church Er sing hymns in a bar Y'don't talk when another man is Y'don't mistreat horses Er laugh at a death A Cowboy won't take what ain't his It's right t'be truthful T'say when yer wrong Not put up yer gun lest y'clean it It's wrong t'git drunk An' t'fight with a friend Er be bad an' then say y'don't mean it Yes, some things is wrong An' some things is right That's what a real cowboy will say An' when y'kin tell it An' choose what's the right Yer livin' the Cowboy Way by Hal Swift

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Out of Africa

Now take back the soul of Denys Finch Hatton who you have shared with us. He brought us joy, and we loved him well. He was not ours, he was not mine. Tania Blixen

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It's the heat of the night

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Maes Howe, the largest burial mound or cairn tomb in Orkney, Scotland, is aligned in such a way that it receives the rays of the setting sun on the night of the winter solstice. Building Maeshowe was a huge undertaking. A circular platform about 38 meters in diameter was cleared and leveled. It consists of an entrance passage, main hall and side chambers. This is the best chambered cairn in northwestern Europe and is believed to have been built around 2700 BC. C., which makes it older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.

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23rd July 1940 - The Local Defence Volunteers (LDV) were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill.

The Home Guard was made up of men who were too young, too old or were otherwise ineligible to sign up to the regular military.

As well as guarding key communication posts and factories from attacks by paratroopers, the Home Guards main purpose was to slow the progress of enemy troops in the event of an invasion, giving the regular Army time to regroup in order to repel the invaders.

As most of the Home Guard volunteers were older gentlemen… (quite a few of them above the official upper age limit of 65), they were given the nickname of Dad’s Army.

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On 23rd July 2007 the Emigrants statue at Helmsdale was unveiled.

The statue commemorates the huge numbers of people evicted from their ancestral homes during the Highland Clearances. The statue depicts four figures. The kilted man is looking ahead into an unknown future, while beside him a boy is looking up to him for guidance or reassurance. The woman, wrapped in a shawl, is holding a baby and is looking back towards the home they have been forced to leave.

The statue is located in Couper Park above the river, village and harbour. It was commissioned by Dennis MacLeod, who was born and raised in Helmsdale before making his fortune in gold mining in South Africa.

The inscription on the monument, in Gaelic and English, reads :

"The Emigrants commemorates the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland who, in the face of great adversity, sought freedom, hope and justice beyond these shores. They and their descendants went forth and explored continents, built great countries and cities and gave their enterprise and culture to the world. This is their legacy. Their voices will echo forever thro the empty straths and glens of their homeland"

A replica of the 30 foot bronze statue was cast and shipped to the Canadian City of Winnipeg.

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July 23rd 1916 saw the death of Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist who discovered helium, xenon, neon, argon, radon and krypton.

He studied under Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, he of the burner fame, and predicted that dense gasses were hidden, invisible and as yet undetected in the Earth’s atmosphere. To test his idea, he designed an experimental means to remove oxygen and nitrogen from the air, and analyzing what remained in collaboration with Lord Rayleigh he found the previously unknown element argon (Ar) in 1894.

He later spectroscopically confirmed the existence of helium, which had first been observed by Pierre Janssen. From the established positions of argon and helium on the periodic table of elements, Ramsay guessed that more unknown gasses exist, and discovered krypton, neon, and xenon in 1898. Working with chemist Robert Whytlaw-Gray he discovered radon in 1900. In 1903, working with Frederick Soddy, Ramsay showed that the radioactive decay of radium produces helium, a discovery which laid the groundwork for the subsequent development of nuclear physics.

In 1904 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, while his colleague Rayleigh won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the same year.

For more details check this link out https://www.famousscientists.org/william-ramsay/

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Sir Winston Churchill on Westerham Green, Kent.

I may have mentioned before that I have a few health difficulties at the moment. But today I managed to walk into Westerham.

Of course, the first thing I did was to pay my respects to Churchill. I whispered quietly to him that I currently had mobility difficulties. I nearly fell over when I heard Sir Winston reply, "So have I since they covered me in bronze and put me here!"

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Armor of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, discovered in the royal tombs of Vergina (Greece). It includes an iron and gold breastplate, a large shield decorated with ivory, gold, and glass, a helmet, greaves, and a sword.

Y oday it is housed in the Royal Tombs Museum in Aigai.