Friday, December 28, 2012

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today


Yesterday’s News Today

On this day in 1795 construction began on Yonge street in what would become Toronto, Canada. Yonge Street was, and by some estimates still is, the longest street in the world and was formally recognised as such in the Guinness book of Records.
And now the news:

  • Judge says golf can stay at Sharp Park (Territory ...
  • Bumblebees Do Best Where There Is Less Pavement an...
  • Orientation of migrating leatherback turtles in re...
  • Two new lizard species discovered in Australia
  • Revealed: Rudolph Really Did Have a Red Nose
  • Tigers Roar Back: Great News for Big Cats in Key A...
  • Polar bear trade ban divides campaigners
  • Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution

  • Robert “Philip Marlowe” Mitchum sings The Ballad of Thunder Road (on a related note, Mitchum's version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is vastly superior to the Bogart and Bacall one and you all should watch it; it's free on Love Film and probably the inferior Netflix too):

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