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19 Oct, 2009

What should Stephen Fry’s gravestone read?

Posted by: Michał In: links|p for press

“ME AND MY BIG MOUTH” These are his own words by the way. Of all people on this planet Stephen Fry would be the very last person in my opinion to express disparaging remarks about other nations. Yet, quite uncharacteristically for him, he did. Publicly. How did that happen? Stephen revealed everything today on his [...]

27 Apr, 2009

Workmen find hidden Auschwitz letter

Posted by: Michał In: p for press

This is an absolutely fascinating – and sad – story I found on AP. Some construction workers  in Oświęcim, the city the Nazis renamed Auschwitz, found a handwritten note hidden in a bottle in a concrete wall. According to the newswire, The note, written in pencil then rolled up and inserted in a bottle, contains [...]

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