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Yet another poll

[Poll #1669638]

Dr Who (and more)

BBC Worldwide is delighted to announce a major new deal with Character Options' new Construction division which will see Doctor Who enter the construction toy market for the first time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2011/01_january/dw_character_options.shtml

Caligula's tomb found? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348356/Caligulas-tomb-police-arrest-raider-trying-steal-statue.html

No! http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2011/01/this-isnt-caligulas-tomb.html

All via http://www.boingboing.net/

Two harriers at Slimbridge today http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/slimbridge/wildlife-sightings/todays-sightings-20110119-173200

Hiawatha's Photographing

From his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding rosewood;
Neatly put it all together.
In its case it lay compactly,
Folded into nearly nothing;
But he opened out the hinges,
Pushed and pulled the joints and hinges,
Till it looked all squares and oblongs,
Like a complicated figure
In the Second Book of Euclid.
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Lewis Carroll (CL Dodgson), http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/carroll/hia.html