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December 22nd, 2004
The great toll bridge rip-off
This article, like every other one in this newspaper and indeed almost every sentence in every book you read in English, will have been typed with a QWERTY keyboard, named after the first six letters on the top left-hand side of the keyboard. Amazing as it may sound, this keyboard was designed in 1873 as an exercise in anti-engineering.
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December 12th, 2004
Hold onto the sackcloth and ashes
The biblical expression “sackcloth and ashes” has been bandied about quite a bit these days.
Coming from Ian Paisley it may sound appropriate.
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December 5th, 2004
Like ancient Rome, we’re in a sea of borrowing
Cleopatra was born in September 68 BC. The same year, Pompey (who was eventually to be murdered in Cleopatra’s kingdom of Egypt) finally conquered all of Spain.


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