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    A hoax in Rome

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/12/2017

    » When, after suffering horrendous losses, the 3 million-strong Red Army liberated Eastern Europe, Stalin was feeling his oats. Who couldn't they defeat if he gave the order? The Catholic Church was the reply. How many men does the Pope have, he chuckled? One billion, was the reply. The supreme dictator stopped chuckling.

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    End of fossil fuel?

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/12/2019

    » I'm not a linguist. I'm not proud of it. English is my first and only language, which is not to say that it's the only language worth knowing. I studied other languages in school, but couldn't get the hang of them. Neither am I well-versed in English. I'm not being modest. I look at Webster and Oxford with a groan.

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    An agent revealed

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 04/08/2017

    » The 20th was the century of despots -- Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, Tojo in Japan, Stalin in Russia, Mao in China. Not to mention Pol Pot in Cambodia, Pilsudski in Poland, Salazar in Portugal, Papa Doc in Haiti. Tens of millions died at their behest. Even the bubonic plague, 600 years earlier, fell short.

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    That word again

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 11/03/2013

    » I was taught in school that the most commonly used letter in the English language is "e" and the word most often spoken or written is "the". However, from what I learned in the real world I must disagree. Actually, "eff" is the most basic, essential, keyword _ employed as noun, verb, adverb, adjective.

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    Worth your while

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 07/01/2013

    » Like every youngster _ well, some at least _ I wanted to know everything there was to know. Not that I liked school that much. With all the inventions up to that time surely, I thought, there ought to be one that could be placed on my head by a scientist and, zap, my brain would be filled.

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    Plague proportions

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/10/2012

    » Of the many ways planet Earth ceases to exist, over-population isn't one of them. Whenever that likelihood appears to arise some force _ God, nature, human _ steps in to reverse the process. Comets, floods, disease, ethnic cleansing, wars. Millions, tens of millions die.

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    A plausible solution

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/07/2012

    » While what the vast majority of people know about Egypt are its pyramids and mummies, there are Egyptologists _ not all scholars _ who find it, particularly its ancient history, fascinating. Indeed, what is called the ancient world.

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    A tasty morsel

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 28/05/2012

    » Tales about wolves give off mixed signals. Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were reared by wolves. Wolf packs chase and devour people. Werewolves _ half-wolf, half-man _ can only be put down with a silver bullet. Jack London had good things to say of wolves. Their howl on movies signifies evil.

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