The Rotary Club of Rainhill - Includes a club calendar, information about members and activities. [Requires Java]
The Colonnade - Dedicated to the memory of Rainhill Hospital - once the world's largest psychiatric hospital. Includes historical information and pictures, photos of the site as it is now, and contact information of former members of staff.
Rainhill Civic Society - Seeks to look after the beauty, history and character of the area. Information about activities and events, local history and photos.
The Rainhill Trials - Contemporary accounts of the trials and the competing engines.
Rainhill Railway and Heritage Society - Maintainers of the Rainhill Trials Exhibition. Information about the society, the exhibition, and early and modern pictures of the railway.
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-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
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-- Bill Moyers I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
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-- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
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friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "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) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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-- Edward Chilton Society and Culture
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
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-- Cher Society and Culture The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
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