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Fronde, it is said, wrote each paragraph of his-history five times before selecting the one finally adopted. The women of Spain are generally credited with being the best dancers of any women in the world. At one period of its history, Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000. .To-day it has dwindled to 235,000.

Residents of islands and small peninsulas are said to live longer than persons who dwell on the mainland. In Scandinavia Thursday is considered the unlucky day of the week, instead of .Friday, as in riiost other lands. Hair dyes are unknown among’ Chinese women, as their hair is uniformly blade, becoming gray only in extreme old ago. A world’s record in intensity ol rainfall was made at Porto Hello, Panama, when 2.48 inches of rain fell in five minutes. In one of the U.S.A. s busiest, thoroughfares there is said to be a sign which reads, “Coal apd Wood, Dealers in Wood and Coal” A curious custom among the nobility of ancient Athens was to wear a small bell in the ear, of which a. pearl formed the (dapper. The Trafalgar medal was struck in pewter fen- they lower deck. The seamen were annoyed at its shoddy appearance, and most of the recipients threw their decorations ir.*o the sea.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19200316.2.4

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2103, 16 March 1920, Page 1

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Tapeke kupu
212

Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2103, 16 March 1920, Page 1

Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2103, 16 March 1920, Page 1

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