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I'm trying to come up with a list of things that go well together eg. salt and pepper, bucket and spade, strawberries and cream, dog and bone... you get the picture. Can you think of any others?...
Can anyone please give me the FULL text of Nash's poem about Marrakesh, Morocco; I believe a couplet may be missing from the version below The bus to Marrakesh, Morocco, traverses landscapes simply...
There is a poem I read a long time ago about birds - possibly swallows or swifts, who, as the sun set began to turn into bats - not literally of course! I thought it was DH Lawrence but I am clearly...
What was the first name and surname of the artist who, when told that one of his portraits was 'ugly and distorted' replied: "Are you certain, Madam, that it was my picture you were looking at and not...
Can anybody reccomend a good biography of Beethoven. I do not want a critique or analysis of his music. Basicaly I want a good read on his life. Thanks.
Jeremy Clarkson is a best-selling author in Poland, and a Polish version of his latest best-seller is soon to be released in an Oxford bookshop. I find this very droll - Clarkson in Poland. The...
Hello, I wonder if anyone can help? A few weeks ago the Sunday Telegraph magazine had a feature on a muslim author who had just published a book about the life of a group of young muslim women - it...
Could you tell me which goddess is represented in statues with a bird, an eagle I think, not an owl or a swan! It's a large bird with a hooked beak Thank you
Can anyone please help me find the painter who was a graphic artist and designer who began as an impressionist but converted to the Fauvist Movement. He painted a picture which has subject matter of...
Anyone know how much this book is gonna cost? At W H Smiths specifically. Also, does anyone know if W H Smiths in Stoke-on-Trent will be open at midnight on the friday?
Does anyone know it or could print the lyrics? I know the poem is about the dogs hanging up their bottoms then in a rush they all got the wrong bottoms, which is why the always sniff others dogs to...