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A bus destination screen on the X18 service to Berwick, which reads 'Next Stop: Buildings'
A street sign reading 'SLAGROVE PLACE'
The crest of Spanish football club Club Deportivo Lugo, including the nicknames Albivermellos (White and red), Luguiño (Little Lugo), and bizarrely O nabo mecánico (The Clockwork Game)
Henry Zeffman, BBC Chief political correspondent: It is worth stating that if Nigel Farage were to win this Clacton by-election, investigations into him will resume. That is what Parliament's rules are.
"Toby Savin (born 4 May 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper"
'I think what we need to remember most of all is that the Civil War is not over until we today have done our part in fighting it, as well as understanding what happened when the Civil War generation fought it. William Faulkner, who can hardly stop writing about the Civil War even when he's not writing about the Civil War, as i can hardly stop lecturing about the Civil War even when i'm not lecturing about the Civil War, said once that history is not was, it’s is, and what we need to remember about the Civil War is that the Civil War is, in the present as well as in the past, and the reason it is in the process is that the generation that fought the war, the generation that argued over the definition of the war, the generation that had to pay the price in blood, that had to pay the price in blasted hopes, in the lost future, also established a standard that will not mean anything until we have finished the work. You can say, there's no such thing as slavery anymore, we’re all citizens, but if we're all citizens then we have a task to do to make sure that that too is not a joke. If some citizens live in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is still going on it. It’s still to be fought, and regrettably, it can still be lost.'
A generously-proportioned black headstone with gold letters reading 'BIG ARTHUR'
The BBC News headline 'Thieves steal Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse paintings in three-minute Italian heist' - and underneath an image of the Renoir painting 'Les Poissons'.
from Wikipedia: 'The word ghee is borrowed from the Hindi word घी (ghī), which comes from Sanskrit: घृत (ghṛta-, IPA: [ɡʱr̩tɐ]) 'clarified butter'; traditionally derived from the root घृ, ghṛ-, 'to sprinkle', and so cognate with the Ancient Greek word χριστός (khristós, 'rubbed, anointed'), from which the English word Christ is derived.
text from Wikipedia: 'The Lot, originally the Olt, is a river in France.'
An entry from paranormaldatabase.com : Location: Gravesend (Kent) - Off coast Type: UFO Date / Time: 06 July 1948, 00:40h Further Comments: A man in a rowing boat watched a reddish object pass quickly overhead, from north to south, scattering particles as it travelled. The witness said it reminded him of the 'flying onions' he had seen during the Second World War.