I have just come across this extraordinary - THING - on the internetz, which purports to be A range of example dissertations to assist you with your history dissertation: * As a referencing guide or secondary source document * Inspiration for your own dissertation.

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DAFFODILS!!!!

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Dept of Ugh just keeps on giving - received (twice over) in this morning's email:( Read more... )

Escalating from the kind offer from Gordon Brown to compensate the victims of SCAMZ, now Barack Barrack Obama (who he?) and the UN have got in on the process:
United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC ( Read more... )

Email received today:
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Following my Not Me, Squire response to the dubious publishing enterprise:
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In my email today, this really not very alluring offer under the subject line Request for publication at LAP:
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Reading Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949), this was possibly even funnier now than at the time. Reuben Starkadder is recounting to Flora Fairford, nee Poste, the reason for the mass exodus of his male kinfolk (except Urk) to South Africa:
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Latest spam offering (via a Free Greek Email address worldkillers@mail.gr):
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Email heading: Last Chance for You to Reeply, which starts out by not invoking any confidence in their bona fides.

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