Archive for 2005
Thanks to a Guardian typo, this subhead from yesterday’s paper about the feud between the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Loyalist Volunteer Force suggests that the UVF will be rebranding itself to make it even less popular with Catholics:
Ambush in morning rush-hour linked to feud between LVF and IVF
In my family history research, I’ve come across a few occasions where a pair of siblings married another pair of siblings. I’ve finally uncovered an example of a married couple apparently being first cousins:
No definitive proof yet that Maria (aka Mary) Baverstock and Frederick (my ancestor) are siblings, but Jesse is described as his nephew on the 1861 census.
From this latest weekly lists of Library of Congress Subject Headings/DDC mappings, an entry twenty-one digits long:
Rednecks in motion pictures 791.436526230975091734
Angered by his unruly, boozed-up behaviour, police had hoped magistrates would punish the youth for breaching his Asbo. He hadn’t.
Closer examination revealed that he had mistakenly been ordered not to be in public “without” alcohol and that he was also duty bound to act in a threatening manner likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to others.
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