Photo Nick Kaye. Polecat Retreat St Leonards Road, Leicester

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Seems miraculous and yet mathematically it has no significance as the same is true for every other human alive today.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were between 12,000 and 16,000.

This battle was completely over-shadowed by the Battle of the Bulge, many of those that died here in the most miserable conditions were heroes from D-Day and they should not be forgotten.

I’d never heard of this until just recently learn much more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest

During these studies he became aware of Lead Pollution emanating from Lead anti-knocking additives in gasoline, namely that we had a 1000 times more lead contamination in our bodies than our ancestors.

This lead to lead being banned in gasoline but not before an arduous battle with the Ethyl Corporation where amongst other things they offered a massive amount of money to Patterson’s University to get rid of him.

Bill Bryson in his marvelous book A Short History of Nearly Everything has helped publicize this remarkable unsung hero!

More here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Patterson

• If your English should be “If you’re English” . This is the worst mistake to make, what’s more your spell checker usually won’t catch it. Although anyone can make this mistake if writing when not fully alert!
• Seperate wrong it’s Separate think “part”
• Desperate however requires the ‘e’
• Definitely doesn’t contain an ‘a’
• its (for showing possession; mistakenly written as it’s, the contraction for it is)
• Receive is correct (i before e except after c)
• Watch out for Their, There and They’re
• Weather or Whether but you will almost certainly never require Wether which is a castrated ram

Avoid the above as they imply that you did not complete formal education hence usually they cause your CV to be rejected immediately.

By the way for your amusement a sentence containing the exceptions to the i before e except after c rule.

Neither financier seized either weird species of leisure.

(BTW if you’re wondering why I target native speakers it’s because foreigners usually make completely different mistakes but not necessarily those above)

Going to School with the 101st Airborne Little Rock

Photo Wikicommons US Government Public Domain

Mother Maybelle Carter playing Wildwood Flower at the Johnny Cash show. Also featuring the Carter sisters Anita Carter & Helen Carter. June was not there because she was pregnant of John Carter Cash.