YOU CAN keep up to date with the Town Hall upgrade project at: “Martinborough Town Hall project” on www.facebook.com
THE BERM is the land between the footpath and the fence. The verge is the land between the footpath and the road.
THE FIRST newspaper advertisement was by Benjamin Franklin who in 1741 advertised for information on a runaway slave.
AMERICAN, CHARLES STRITE, patented the pop up toaster in 1919.
FORTY PERCENT of house sales in Auckland are to investment buyers.
IN THE GREAT Barrier Island local body elections Christina Spence and Nikki Watts each received 208 votes. With the special votes added they each received 220 votes.
CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT, but for a while Gareth Morgan was suspect.
On NOVEMEBER 11th 1975 the Australian Governor General dismissed the current Labor Government Prime Minister Gough Whitlam because he refused to call a general election after failing to get his budget passed by parliament.
IN AMERICA there are 220 types of branded breakfast cereals.
THE FIRST helicopter flight took place on November13th 1907 when French bicycle maker M. Paul Cornu ‘s machine rose four feet off the ground and hovered for 60 seconds.
IN THE LAST billion years the space between the clusters of galaxies has expanded by 5%.
THE DESCRIPTIONS left and right wings in politics is from the National Assembly established following the French Revolution. In the House of Commons the clergy sat at the left and the nobility at the right.
PEOPLE OF EVERY RACE were allowed on south African beaches for the first time on November 16th 1989 when President F W de Klerk rescinded the South African Separate Amenities Act.
A TIMID PERSON is frightened before the danger, a coward during the danger, and a courageous person after wards.
ABOUT 6,000 stars in the night sky are visible to the naked eye from earth. With binoculars this rises to 50,000 and with a high quality home telescope to 100,000.
IN 1960 the U.S Military budget accounted for 49% of the Federal Budget.
THE FIRST TV commercial was broadcast by Station WNBT New York on 1st July 1941.
ENGLAND’S biggest gold robbery was carried out on November 26th 1983 when thieves broke into a security warehouse at Heathrow airport and removed gold valued at the time as twenty five million pound.
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