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"You could try reading some works by the emperors themselves - Caesar's Gallic Wars, or Augustus's Res Gestae. If you are interested in more detailed histories of the period then try:
- A World Full of Gods by Keith Hopkins. An experiment in trying..." [
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"I'm assuming that he refused to pay and hence it's going to trial - there was a reference to the case file going to the Crown Prosecution Service, presumably for a charging decision. So he may not end up being prosecuted. There's always the..." [
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2 months ago
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"I see demonstrations about cases like this taking place outside the Home Office most weeks. It is so, so nice to see one where the outcome is positive.
The reason it's 5 years rather than a permanent right to remain is that the rules for claiming..." [
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2 months ago
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Middle Eastern troops at Hadrian's Wall in the early fifth century
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3 months ago
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"This is one I heard Keith from The Office tell at an Edinburgh Festival ghost stories show that took place in a crypt. Stay with me, don't switch off at the mention of Keith (he was brilliant). It has lots of room for embellishment, too.
When I..." [
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6 months ago
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"A historian and a philosopher go on holiday together after their university's broken up for the summer. They're sitting out on the veranda, sipping a cocktail, and the philosopher asks, "Have you read Marx?", and the historian replies,..." [
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7 months ago
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"My favorite story about an index entry is in Hugh Trevor-Roper's Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans. He'd recently been elected Master of Peterhouse, a college at Cambridge University, and discovered a group of reactionary fellows who loathed him and..." [
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8 months ago
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"I can't imagine that many American companies would bother to burn files rather than some other type of secure data transfer, but then again, that's me saying this as a non-resident.
Well, the National Audit Office - which is the body that asked..." [
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8 months ago
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"Read this site, which encompasses most of a book called How To Be A Civil Servant by a former senior civil servant at the DTI - it's an excellent places to start for the nuts and bolts of how it works. This guide (PDF) shows you a more satirical side...." [
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9 months ago
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"It's strange finding out that there are people who don't know about Blackadder. I'm very jealous that you're discovering it for the first time.
I shall return interfrastically...." [
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10 months ago
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"they were a typically ill-thought out Labour response geared towards having numbers to point at come election time.
Perhaps - but they do get taken out of context. ASBOs aren't Labour's one-stop, magic bullet solution to crime. They were never..." [
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10 months ago
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"I have solved problems like this with team members in the past, but it can take lots of time and lots of effort on your part. First of all, identify what the exact problem is. Is it not meeting a particular in-house style? Inability to construct..." [
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11 months ago
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"Thank you, lastobelus, for that very reasoned criminological treatise.
This was a really interesting read. I know less about the US side of things but it rang true with the experience in the UK, where we're seeing something similar to the effects..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sonny Jim
Last year
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"Right, 450-420 is code for indigo on a random US patent site. So the 32°F 450-420nm 78:25 is just spelling out Frozen Indigo Angels again in a different way...." [
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"This is probably the most bizarre AskMe answer I will ever type, but I have a female friend who does this every once in a while - she will ask a bit sheepishly if she can bite a friend's arm. It tends to be when she's drunk, although she did once..." [
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"I think all questions are technically supplementaries to the first question.
Correct. And it tends to be that many MPs will ask an incredibly generic question as their required first question, get an incredibly generic answer, then will get into..." [
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"Captain Jack Harkness, in WW2 uniform. Buy some hairgel and part your hair to one side, wear a light blue shirt, dark blue suit, rig up some plausible looking epaulettes, pair with shiny black shoes and greatcoat, and you're good to go. Both 1940s..." [
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"Here is the relevant portion of the Treaty of Versailles. As well as cash and territory it included livestock, fuel, replacement of Allied military equipment, as well as some very specific "you broke it, you replace it" style requirements...." [
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This has destroyed my productivity, now it can destroy yours...
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"I don't have the stats to hand, but I remember seeing an academic report a few years ago in the UK that claimed British children and young people had much higher rates of lower-level mental health problems than in any other developed country. In..." [
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Whooooooooooo-Tube
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Last year
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"ok i bought a $3,000 item on ebay a laptop, i never recieved it, i paypaled him the money, and he transfered those funds to his bank account, and then withrdrew it. He then informed me that on the day he was going to ship it out, his car was robbed,..." [
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"A personal list based on some favorites.
1900s: Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum (1901); Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902).
1910s: Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (1912); Sons and Lovers, D.H.Lawrence (1913).
1920s: A Passage to India,..." [
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"Here, have a dollar, in fact no brother, man here have five. Five dollars means a sockpuppet to me, but it means a big deal to you." [
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"Bloody hell this takes me back. Not in a "I danced till 4am to Baby D" type way - I was only 12 at the time most of these were released - but my class at school was obsessed with rave in a very naive way. Living around the M25, at the..." [
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"I'm particularly fond of Mr Cholmondely-Warner's take on Association Football." [
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"My favorite bit:
This was a shock few of us were ready for -- the ghost liked Bruce Springsteen." [
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"It's a bit far off from the gadget theme, but I always think a significant, lasting present means a lot for "big" birthdays like your 18th or 21st. I got given silver cuff links by a relative for my 18th that I still wear, and it always..." [
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Middle Eastern troops at Hadrian's Wall in the early fifth century
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"Because people in the future got fed up with shouting "Your kids, Marty, your kids!"." [
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