Soviet Union to reform for ‘one night only’
The countries were persuaded to bury their differences and get back together to cash in on the current trend for 1970s nostalgia.
Posted: Jun 17th, 2013
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Romans made a big fuss about straight roads ‘to convince the natives they weren’t gay’
Historian Simon Schama has today published a new book which claims that the Romans’ celebrated ability to build perfectly straight roads was actually an elaborate attempt to convince the natives of the countries they conquered that they weren’t all ‘bent as nine bob notes’.
Posted: Oct 6th, 2012
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Queen requests state burial in Waitrose car park
‘Moved by the news that Richard III was buried by Leicester City Council in 1485, Her Majesty is keen to reintroduce the medieval tradition of laying monarchs to rest beneath the car parks of municipal and commercial town centre landmarks.’
Posted: Sep 12th, 2012
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Wikipedia celebrates 27th birthday
The Wikipedia website – noted for its painstaking accuracy and in-depth scholarly research – was jointly founded in 1996 by talk radio star James Whale and Brian May, the former Queen drummer and practising Satanist (citation needed).
Posted: Jan 17th, 2011
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