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May 8, 2016
Flickering Lamps: The ancient rock-cut tombs by the Lancashire coast
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m especially interested in particularly old and unusual graves, and the subject of today’s post definitely falls into that category. On th…
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May 7, 2016
Nicholas Rossis/The Passive Guy: Amazon Turbocharges Book Marketing – but at what Price
The Passive Guy alerted me to a big change in the way Amazon does book marketing. As Amy Collins of The Book Designer reports, starting today, Amazon is expanding its Amazon Marketing Services (AMS…
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Well-Paying Markets To Write For | Savvy Book Writers
2016 Writer’s Market, “Yellow Pages” for Writers . Do you like to travel to foreign countries, or other states / provinces? Enjoy weekend trips to new places
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May 2, 2016
Pacific Paratrooper: Intermission (5) – POW in Japan
An amazing tribute to a WWII POW turning 100 years old! ooh rah!
Can you imagine what it must be like to be marched out to face a firing squad, say goodbye to your closest friend who is standing next to you and then have the squad shoulder their rifles and march away having not fired a shot? What are the odds on that happening during a war situation? The mind boggles at the odds of this happening but this did happen to Charles Rodaway who served in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during World War II.
POW camps in Japan
He joined the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and was posted to Shanghai in 1934. He undertook guard duties in Shanghai before being transferred to Singapore in 1938. At the fall of Singapore in 1942, he was captured by the Japanese and put to work as a labourer in the Kawasaki shipyards, near Tokyo. In 1944, he and a friend attempted to escape…
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Petition Amazon to stop letting people return ebooks after 15% read!
Great idea from Kawanee shared by Chris The Story Reading Ape!
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My thanks to Kawanee for posting about this issue
Book Blogger Alisha Webster started this petition with a single signature, and now has 3,848 supporters.
If you’d like to sign the petition click the link or image below:
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May 1, 2016
April 30, 2016
Not just a virus
Absolutely beautiful pictures from Inese! She always captures beauty!
In this picture, I am looking through the natural ‘window’ from a coastal cave. It was chilly outside, and we quite enjoyed our refuge from the elements.
A couple of days ago I went outside first time after a week in bed. It felt like leaving a cave.
Viruses, the tiny things that are not even technically alive, can cause a lot of trouble. The only criteria for being alive they fit in is that they can evolve over time. It is why we need to get a flu vaccine every year. Basically, a virus is a string of DNA (or RNA) wrapped in a protein coat. It doesn’t respond to any stimuli and doesn’t reproduce. It just is. At this stage it is called a virion. The horror story begins when such virion gets in contact with a cell – human, animal or bacterial. Viruses are parasites, they must have a host…
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April 29, 2016
April 28, 2016
Chris The Story Reading Ape: Photos of things around the world…
Fantastic pictures from Chris The Story Reading Ape!
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A cool looking Volcano in Ethiopia has blue lava
apparently due to a high sulphur content.
This photo could just be the perfect mountain sunrise you’ll ever see.
Running in Florida doesn’t look that appealing…
Keyhole Rock at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur California provides
a beautiful ocean cave sunset photograph
A beautiful photo of Anatakapau Bay in New Zealand
A look at Bavaria with lots of colour in this photograph.
This Oceanside path in Spain looks like a cool place to take a hike.
A ship towing an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland
to prevent the iceberg from hitting an offshore drilling platform.
A beautiful photo of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.
Chimney Rock is on the left and Courthouse Mountain is on the right.
Apparently these beach boulders are located at Moeraki, New Zealand
and occur naturally…
It appears that this group of Gibbons are singing…
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