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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Darts in England, 1900 to 1939 by Patrick Chaplin

Darts in England, 1900 to 1939 by Patrick Chaplin is full of amazing facts. The word crow's nest didn't exist in the 16th century so they would have been called mass tops. William Scorsby was a whaler and an arctic explorer from Whitby. He had a son who was one of the first people to scientifically record what snowflakes looked like. They did a crow's nest in Whitby in 1994 but local historian Norman Nichols said it looked more like a margarine tub - even though there are only two men on top.

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