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Raymond Hodgson, 31, was charged with common assault after being appalled to discover that his partner of five years, Emma McCormick, had been reading the racy book.
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In 1890, the English held a contest to design London’s wacky rip-off of the Eiffel Tower
Inspired by the financial success of the Eiffel Tower — which was erected in Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair — a group of Englishmen attempted to bang out their own ersatz Eiffel a year later. This contest to design the never-to-be “Great Tower of London” received 68 designs. Some resemble alien fortresses and all of them would’ve (supposedly) prompted an international Eiffel Tower arms race.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The first link: words fail me.
Second link: Design no.6 would make an excellent helter-skelter. That’d get the tourists in!