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Come on, Dover! Move your bloomin' arse!! (Elize from My Fair Lady )

November 25th 2006
What a glorious day to watch the ponies at the Ellerslie Racecourse. The weather was ideal, 75 degrees, blue sky, white clouds, and a very slight breeze coming from the direction of the track. Ladies dressed in racetrack fashion (not NASCAR fashion), feathers, big hats, beads and pearls and stilettos that kept sinking into the soft turf. Men donned their suits, blazers or Italian fashion. I nev ... read more
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New Zealand Flag The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more
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