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Weardale - A short history of Weardale.
The Lambton Worm - Folklore story about the young heir to Lambton by Philip Atkinson .
Lead Mining Bargains in Weardale - Selective transcripts from the Bargain Books of interest to genealogists whose ancestors are mentioned . Explains the meaning of mining bargains, a listing of family names included in the bargains and links to related resources.
Witton Park - Information on the village history, past and present celebrities, news and events, and a picture gallery .
Wear Valley CAMRA - Local branch of the campaign for real ale. Includes diary dates and a guide to local beers and pubs .
Vickers Families - Provides local information and resources for those researching the family name .
The Preservation of Weardale - Group born out of the need to protect the local landscape. Includes news, policies, links and images.
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly Society and Culture He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. -- Confucius Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Society and Culture The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Society and Culture I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Society and Culture I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Society and Culture Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Society and Culture "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Society and Culture A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Society and Culture If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Society and Culture Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Society and Culture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
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