The remarkable story of how people power created Remembrance Day

King George V's plan for a two-minute silence a year after the end of the First World War was criticised by some politicians, but the British public observed it to a degree that few dreamed possible.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2824621/How-people-power-created-Remembrance-Day-millions-flock-Tower-poppies-remarkable-story-ordinary-Britons-won-right-honour-fallen.html

8 November 2014

Schoolboy, 11, is shot in the HEAD with pellet gun.

Connor Minto, 11, narrowly avoided being blinded after a pellet lodged in his forehead when he was stood on the sidelines at an under 12s game in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2838137/Schoolboy-11-shot-HEAD-pellet-gun-waiting-come-substitute-football-match.html

18 November 2014

PS.

In the year 1973 I was working in the Accident/Emergency Department as Registrar at the Becket Hospital, Barnsley, UK. A young girl around 10 years was brought in saying she had suddenly gone blind in one eye while playing in a public park on a sunny day. There was blood seen through the iris. There was also a small puncture mark in the white of the eye. There was very little pain. The child had seen a boy playing around with an air-gun in the park. I ordered an Xray of the head and there was an air-gun pellet seen inside the maxillary sinus of the affected side.

The Registrar in Ophthalmology saw the child and said that the affected eye was a write-off.

A child's air-gun is as dangerous as a rifle.

GPs 'should prescribe gardening' to prevent dementia.

Dr William Bird, who advises Public Health England, says the NHS should acknowledge the power of the great outdoors as a medical treatment.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2831834/GPs-prescribe-GARDENING-prevent-onset-dementia-doctor-claims.html

13 November 2014

Listen to Rosetta's comet 'sing'

The mysterious sound has baffled scientists at mission control in Darmstadt, who recorded it using a Rosetta instrument originally designed to analyse the comet's magnetic field.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2830476/Listen-Rosetta-s-comet-singing-Scientists-baffled-mysterious-sounds-recorded-near-67P-ahead-Philae-landing.html

12 November 2014

'Mallikaippoo jadhi Roja' an old Tamil POP and a Tamil version of 'Que sera sera'

Email from Edwin Kirubakaran.

An old Tamil POP song.

Click on the web-links
 below with the speakers on :-

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http://youtu.be/Q7UH0rJu-fQ


PS
A Tamil version of 'Que sera sera' :-

http://youtu.be/kGPO7CCU8eA

Philae successfully lands on its comet!.

Rosetta's probe, Philae, successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a tense seven-hour descent - but it has emerged is it not tethered to the comet.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2831125/Rosetta-mission-broken-thruster-computer-glitch-scupper-today-s-historic-landing-comet-67P.html

13 November 2014

Bletchley Park codebreakers dried their damp pants on Enigma machine.

Elizabeth 'Betty' Balfour, 88, joined the Wrens when she was 17 - she has now revealed she and her co-workers used to dry their bras and pants on Hitler's Enigma machine during chilly, damp nights.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2831806/Wartime-codebreaker-tells-workers-Bletchley-Park-used-dry-damp-bras-pants-Enigma-machine.html

13 November 2014