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Whitehaven and Western Lakeland - Photographs and history of Whitehaven and Western Lakeland including, Eskdale, Miterdale, Wasdale, Ennerdale, Loweswater, Crummock Water and Buttermere. Photographs of recent events in Whitehaven. By Oakweb.
Copeland Borough Council - Information on the economy, regeneration, tourism and news of the Copeland region of Cumbria. This includes Whitehaven, Cleator Moor, Ennerdale, Egremont, Sellafield and Millom.
Lakestay-Whitehaven - A guide to Whitehaven, with emphasis on stories about interesting people and events in the history of Whitehaven.
Whitehaven, Born, Bred and Proud - Old photographs and historical 'crack' about the Georgian town of Whitehaven. By Ralph Lewthwaite.
Age Concern Northwest Cumbria - A local charity working to improve the quality of life for all older people in the Allerdale and Copeland areas of Cumbria.
Whitehaven.org.uk - All about the town including accommodation, business listings, and articles about the town's historical connections.
42 Rowrah Road - The history of Pete and Audrey's home in Rowrah.
Whitehaven : Then and Now - Community Notice Board - A community notice board for Whitehaven, where you can air your views, talk about the local news, or participate in 'general' chit-chat with other people about Whitehaven.
Whitehaven - Then and Now - Local history and modern tourism. Where to stay, and photo album. A guide by Sean Duffy.
The Cumbria Directory Whitehaven - Traveler's guide to Cumbria and the Lake District. Includes business and accommodation listings, and tourist attractions.
Tall Ships at Whitehaven - Pictures and brief descriptions of the various visits by tall ships to the historic port of Whitehaven. Includes links to other related sites, and details of the Whitehaven Maritime Festival.
Whitehaven Marras - An on-line club designed to help create new and lasting friendships with fellow Marras from all over the world. Share files, photos, news or chat. Requires signup (free), though limited viewing is possible without signup.
A Brief History of Whitehaven - A concise history of Whitehaven from the 17th century to today.
Whitehaven Pits - History and pictures of the various coal mines in Whitehaven. From the Shropshire Caving and Mining Club.
Whitehaven Sailing Ships (19th Century) - Details of over 200 sailing ships built at Whitehaven, several with photographs.
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson 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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green Whitehaven A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whitehaven The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Whitehaven Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Whitehaven Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer Whitehaven The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Whitehaven Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Whitehaven "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Whitehaven 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken Whitehaven Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Whitehaven Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Whitehaven The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Whitehaven Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Whitehaven Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Whitehaven Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Whitehaven It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Whitehaven "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Whitehaven Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Whitehaven Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whitehaven A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Whitehaven If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Whitehaven How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Whitehaven
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