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Election Fever Begins!
As our news media begins to speculate about a forthcoming general election (it could be a long haul!) I thought we could reminisce a bit about those also-rans in our general elections, some of the defeated candidates who sometimes appear for a few weeks, are defeated at the ballot box and are never seen again… Continue reading
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Not a record you’d want to hold!
There are some records that you really don’t want to hold. For example, Tom Collins set a record for the longest wait on a trolley in a hospital (over 77 hours before he was found a bed) in 2001 (I fear this may be broken this winter), the stuntman Evel Knievel broke or fractured 433… Continue reading