Saturday, 12 July 2008 7 signs on the Ridgeway
Friday, 11 July 2008 7 poems learnt in childhood that I can still quote from
- Kubla Khan - Samual Taylor Coleridge
- Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
- There Was a Little Girl - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Stair Where I Sit - AA Milne
- The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
- Green Eggs and Ham - Dr Seuss
- The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt
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Tags: Literature
Thursday, 10 July 2008 7 answers to questions we got right in this week's University Challenge
- Baked Alaska
- David Beckham
- Icelandic
- Richard III
- -onimy
- Seaweed
- Blue
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Wednesday, 9 July 2008 7 most deadly contractible diseases by approximate death toll
- Smallpox : 300,000,000 - 5000,000,000
- Measles : over 200,000,000
- Bubonic Plague : 152,000,000 (approx)
- Malaria : 80,000,000 - 250,000,000
- Spanish Flu : 50,000,000 - 100,000,000
- Tuberculosis : 40,000,000 - 100,000,000
- AIDS : 25,2500,000
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Tags: Fact
Tuesday, 8 July 2008 7 ways to predict the future
- Gastromancy - divination by stomach noises.
- Myomancy - divination by movements of mice.
- Omphalomancy - divination by knots on the umbilical cord.
- Gyromancy - divination by walking in a circle until the subject falls over from dizziness.
- Rhapsodomancy - divination by random selection of a line of poetry.
- Onychomancy - divination by fingernails.
- Tyromancy - divination by cheese.
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Tags: Leftfield
Monday, 7 July 2008 7 things I didn't know last month
- Rays are part of the shark family
- 'The Joy of Sex' took it's name from a cookery book - 'The Joy of Cooking'
- There are over 60000 species of weevil
- Our neighbours were going to put in a planning application to change the building use to... a yoga studio!
- You can get goggles for dogs - Doggles
- Plantains taste EXACTLY the same as bananas
- The same people who operate the TPS (Telephone Preference Service) offer The Baby Mailing Preference Service, to help reduce the number of baby-related mailings you receive!?!
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Tags: Monthly
Sunday, 6 July 2008 7 facts about Rafael Nadal
- Nadal currently uses a Babolat AeroPro Drive Racket without cortex.
- To date, he has yet to lose a match at the French open.
- He is naturally right-handed, but he plays left-handed.
- Nadal won a record 81 consecutive clay court matches before being defeated by Federer in the 2007 Hamburg Masters final.
- By the age of 16, Nadal was ranked in the world's top 50 players.
- He is currently the only man to win Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the same year since Björn Borg
- Nadal became the third teenager to reach World No. 2 in the history of the ATP computer rankings, joining Boris Becker and Björn Borg
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Tags: Sports
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