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Stan’s Strange but True

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. Margaret Bell, who kept bees in Leintwardine…

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Stan’s Strange but True: May

Aimee Belmore May 18, 2016 Stan Bowes stan's strange but true Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. ON 9 July 1993 Garry Hoy, a…

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Stan’s Strange but True: April

Aimee Belmore April 4, 2016 stan Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. BUNGEE-JUMPER William Brotherton was not very good…

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Stan’s Strange but True: March

Aimee Belmore March 9, 2016 stan Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. WHAT WE now call Irish Dancing, as…

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Stan’s Strange But True: February

Aimee Belmore February 14, 2016 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. THE WORD ‘orange’ has an interesting history. …

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Stan’s Strange But True: Interesting and entertaining facts

Aimee Belmore January 17, 2016 apophthegms improve your vocabulary Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. LAURA BUXTON released a helium-filled balloon during…

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Stan’s Strange but True: December

Aimee Belmore December 17, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. In 1871, U.S. Congressman Clement Vallandigham died…

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Stan’s Strange but True: November

Aimee Belmore November 16, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. In 2007, the State of Tennessee executed…

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Stan’s Strange but True: October

Aimee Belmore October 15, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. Strange but true Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944)…

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Stan’s Strange but True: September

Aimee Belmore September 21, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. Strange but true Fire-fighters in Christchurch, Dorset,…

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Stan’s Strange but True: August

Aimee Belmore August 19, 2015 stan Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. FOR A performance by the Philharmonic Orchestra…

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Stan’s Strange but True: July

Aimee Belmore July 15, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. SOME THINGS are meant to be! In…

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Stan’s Strange but True: April

Aimee Belmore April 12, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. Doctor Jan Lavric was tired out after…

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Stan’s Strange but True: March

Aimee Belmore March 18, 2015 Stan Bowes Strange but true

Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some interesting and entertaining facts – you just couldn’t make them up. DRINKING, particularly alcohol, has many traditions. One…