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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d5eaf8f7-72ce-4fdb-846a-5820df5ec2a3/D5A53F80-4CDD-4BAA-96BE-BBC14F32B4A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2006/12/interesting-fact-447-witchcraft.html" href="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2006/12/interesting-fact-447-witchcraft.html" style="font-size: 11px;">interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2006/12/interesting-fact-447-witchcraft.html"><H3 class="post-title">
<A href="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2006/12/interesting-fact-447-witchcraft.html">Interesting Fact # 447 - Witchcraft</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2006/12/interesting-fact-447-witchcraft.html"><P><DIV>It's only 62 years since the last person was prosecuted for witchcraft in the UK.</DIV><BR />(Helen Duncan (1897 – 1956) was a Scottish medium. During World War II, she held a seance in Portsmouth at which she indicated knowledge that a warship had been sunk. Because this fact had been kept from the public, the British Admiralty chose to attempt to discredit her. She was arrested and eventually charged at first with conspiracy and then witchcraft, she was jailed for nine months. Winston Churchill was less than impressed with the whole thing and eventually repealed the Witchcraft Act in 1951.)</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2007/12/interesting-fact-sleep.html" href="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2007/12/interesting-fact-sleep.html" style="font-size: 11px;">interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2007/12/interesting-fact-sleep.html"><H3 class="post-title">
<A href="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2007/12/interesting-fact-sleep.html">Interesting Fact # 694 - Sleep</A>
</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://interesting-facts.fun-with-english.co.uk/2007/12/interesting-fact-sleep.html"><P><DIV>In Japanese work culture, sleeping on the job is tolerated, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri.</DIV><BR />(I shall try to explain this to my culturally illiterate boss if he ever catches me snoozing at my desk.)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5A53F80-4CDD-4BAA-96BE-BBC14F32B4A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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