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Richard Bourne (Q111833029)

• Shearjashub Bourne, Esq. (Q116459755)
• Elisha Bourne (Q116459776)
• Job Bourne (Q123668568)
• Ezra Bourne d. December 12, 1676

A PACKAGE OF OLD LOVE LETTERS.

The Rev. Richard excuseth his neglect to
visit the Widow Ruth. His spirits be-
ing weighed down by illness and death
in his family and neighborhood, it
doth not suite him to goe more abroad
at present. Sandwich this 16^th of ye 12^th, y^e, 76.
My well beloved, upon whom my desires and affections are fixed, longing to see you but am as yet prevented. I did intend to give you a visit the next weeke, but God disposing otherwise, as that my son who was at hyngham was taken with the diseas that many have dyed of, who was sick about five weeks and dyed last Saturday, and was buryed the last Lord's day, so that at present my spirits are soe full of heavyness that it doth not suite to goe more abroad at present, but I must bee at March Court if I bee well, conserning some spetiall ocation...

The Tucker genealogy

User:Lotje/sandbox2 /Wikipedia Library Wikipedia:Bare URLs todo list

The Witness by Henk Visch. Huge sculpture of a Bombay cat in front of the entrance of the Library and the Academy Seminar Room, Peace Palace. In memory of "Ramskells", a feral British Bombay cat, who led the judges of the court to safety in the fire of Spring 1924.

Public service ought to be more than just doing what’s popular in the moment. [...] it ought to be about what’s right for our nation, over the long term. It ought to be about problem-solving and governance, not just how we can score political points on each other or engage in obstructionism. And where compromise is not a vice and where bipartisanship is a actually considered a virtue -- to be rewarded, not punished. Barack Obama

Life is as fragile as the blowball of a Dandelion

Een Kerstgeschenkje (25 December 2011)

Trijn, stel nu even…
Je neemt de trein van Wikipedia,
Je zit in de wagon,
Te wachten op ’t perron,
En Lotje komt voorbij
Met een schilderij.
Ga je dan lachen of wordt je boos?
Neen,
Je glimlacht, en denkt,
Dit is een schot in de roos
En je geniet verder van de rit
Die er nog aan te komen zit...

The number 86 was once used as a code word in restaurants meaning "We're out of the requested item". It is now commonly used to mean the removal or destruction of something

List of popular misspellings: chruch/chruch/ - cradel/cardle/clarde - internaltional - Ocotbre/Octrobe/ - privledge/privledges/privledged

Wanna find out how to achieve a 80% female contributor ratio on wikipedia? Start looking pretty

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