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[BrowneIssue]

I've been extracting crystals out of their cases so the kiddies can see what's inside a quartz crystal can...

They're ever so interesting.

Kewl! Taking things to bits for money! Can life get better than that?

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Whereas the oriental ladies in the cartoons often seem overjoyed at it all...

Those tiny little mouths and - yet - what they can do with them is, quite frankly, surprising.

[BrowneIssue]

Or so I am told, anyway.

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Who will gain this prize, I wonder...

I wondered lonely as a cloud.

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Well done!

[DS23]

I seem to be drivelling away to myself again... it's a bit like the wall in the cuk facebook thingie...

at the time maybe but not now.

[DS23]

odd isn't it. you can be alone at the time and then later (when you are not even there) you are not alone anymore.

[DS23]

10 more to get into the next century.

[DS23]

wonder what happened in the year 691. no doubt wikipedia will tell me something.

[DS23]

not a lot. though it seems wu zetian (the "heavenly empress" who despite being female actually managed to become an emperor- emperor shengshen) went through 3 different chancellors.

[BrowneIssue]

wonder what happened in the year 691. no doubt wikipedia will tell me something.

The greatest of all Umayyad constructions is the Dome of the Rock Mosque, built by Caliph ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan in the year 691.

Did Wikipedia have that?