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Subject: Re: Tuesday -- British Facts of the Day
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"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
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> British Fact of the day...
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> The British name for checkers is Draughts
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> **********
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> The well known lullaby 'Hush-a-bye baby, on the tree top', is said to
> have been the first English poem written on American soil, when a boy
> that sailed with the Pilgram Fathers was inspired by the natives'
> custom of propping babies cradles in tree tops.
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> **********
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Yes correct again. Checkers here is a game played with lots of little
coloured pegs.
Mercury.
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