In the churchyard at Newtown Linford, Leicestershire, there is a tombstone inscribed only with the alphabet written in different styles. The story is that a stonesmason sub-
mitted lettering to a customer who was so pleased with its appearance that he decided to have that and nothing else. Colder over warmer area. —At about nine miles elevation, the average temperature over the equator is 90 degrees below zero; while over the 60th parallel, it is only 62 degrees below.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 8
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