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COME and hear the Martinborough Community Choir in the open rehearsal for their next performance. Tuesday 12th May 7.15 at St Andrew’s Hall. Gold Coin koha appreciated.

VANILLA is the flavour of preference for a third of all of the ice cream produced in the world. However Coca
Cola is said to be the world’s biggest buyer of vanilla. It is also an ingredient of the perfumes Chanel No 5,Opium and Angel.

NOTHING is so permanent as a temporary government program.
– Milton Friedman.

IN THE THREE years 2010 -2013 China pored 6.4 gigatonnes of concrete. More than the U.S. poured in the whole of the 20th Century.

IN ANCIANT times, cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

AN AVERAGE of the equivalent of 122 days a year are spent in sleep – that’s about a third of a lifetime. Best have a comfy bed.

A GOVERNMENT which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

JAMES Watson and Francis Crick received the Nobel prize for the discovery that DNA was a Double Helix. However the data had been stolen from Scientist Rosalind Franklin and published without her permission. She died from cancer and they never acknowledged her work.

SMOKING addiction starts early. Over two thirds of smokers commence the habit in their teens while less than five percent start after the age of twenty five.

KIWIFRUIT originally came from Northern China. The first vines were planted in New Zealand in 1905.
• GOVERNMENT’S view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases; If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if is stops moving, subsidise it.”
• – Ronald Reagan
• THE FIRST patents were granted in Italy in the fifteenth century. In America alone there are now 1790 patents.
• TEA was first dunk in China 3,000 years ago. It was not introduced to Europe until the 1600s.
• THE PRESERVING of food in cans was developed by Peter Durand to enable the convenient transport of food for troops in the Napoleonic wars. The canning of liquids was developed by the Coca Cola company to supply Coke to the troops in the Korean war.
• THE BRAIN uses 20% of the body’s oxygen and 60% of the glucose supply.
• The deadline for the June issue is 4pm Wednesday May 27th