On 09 Jun 2009 10:18:35 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
>news:pg4s25h13aud9bip0cskn6391coa1a6hhc@4ax.com:
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>> British Fact of the day...
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>> The British name for checkers is Draughts
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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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>Yes correct again. Checkers here is a game played with lots of little
>coloured pegs.
>
>Mercury.
Amazing that you can remember these childhood games.
lol,
darkshadows
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