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No Such Thing As A Fish

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How to Communicate With the Isle of Man

It was so windy the islando sheep would sometimes just be blown over the cliffs. In 19 30, they held one final church service and they drowned their dogs off the pier. By that point, two thirds of the population had really been wettled down. They used to communicate with the mainland by mail boats. And then in the tern twentieth century, there's a melbourne architect called alfred smart who invented a new way of pirography. Pirograiing is when you burn words on to bits of woods,. kind of a subsection of whittling.

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