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I have some here: Puerto Ricans call a typical tropical dish codfish salad!. Yet cod fish comes from Newfoundland, Canada quite cold, near the artic, most of the year!. Marlene Dietrich, John F!. and Robert F!. Kennedys, Michael Jackson, Bette Davis, Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon had one thing in common: their fathers were total tyrants in their households!. And J!. Edgard Hoover, former FBI's boss, reading habits were encyclopedias and Reader Digest and newspapers!. No literature!. Feedback, please!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Hi Bruno,
Interesting choice Sir!.
Consider please the following;
[1] Britain's present royal family was originally named Saxe-Coburg and Gotha!. The name was changed in 1917, during WW1 because of German connotations!. The name Windsor was suggested by one of the staff!. At the same time the Battenberg family name of the cousins to the Windsors was changed into Mountbatten!.
[2] The peace symbol was created in 1958 as a nuclear disarmament symbol by the Direct Action Committee, and was first shown that year at peace marches in England!. The symbol is a composite of the semaphore signals N and D, representing nuclear disarmament!.
[3] The White House, in Washington DC, was originally gray, the color of the sandstone it was built out of!. After the War of 1812, during which it had been burned by Canadian troops, the outside walls were painted white to hide the smoke stains!.
And my last contribution is this;
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Good luck my friend,
Cathorio!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Ah, let's see!.!.!.
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