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North-East of England Green Party - Political party with details of elections, local organisations, current campaigns and contact information.
North East History Pages - Exploring the history of North Eastern England from the River Tweed to the River Tees. From "The Millennium History of North East England" by David Simpson.
Northfiche: Family History Microfiche - Selling microfiche of local information from parish registers and county record offices for genealogists working on County Durham and Northumberland. Durham.
Durham Mining Museum - History and culture of the coal mining industry in the North of England. Includes details of fatalities, disaster and collieries and pits.
Community Regeneration Trust North East - Supports and assists those suffering from financial hardship, social exclusion, unemployment or any other form of debilitating circumstance. Describes its services with profile and news.
Equality North East - Equal opportunities issues for businesses and individuals. Includes news on equality and diversity, also recruitement, information sheets on law and equal opps policy and procedure.
Rotary District 1030 - North East England - District organisation for the 68 local clubs in the area. Newsletters, district officials and details of local clubs.
Culture North East - Government funded initiative to develop and promote the region's cultural heritage. Details of the project, its activities and how to get involved.
The Charlton Family - Personal pages of a local family associated with railways in the region for over 150 years. Includes history and photos.
Durham Dialect Project - Studying the dialect of the region. Includes dictionary, feedback on words, games, publications and newsletter.
The People's Animal Rescue and Re-homing Team - Charity that re-houses cats and dogs in the Tyneside and Northumberland area. Overview, re-homing, news and fundraising.
Pride of the North East - The people and places who changed the region and locals who have changed the world. Includes links, pictures, biographies and devolution campaign.
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain 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 Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Society and Culture "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Society and Culture The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi "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 Society and Culture The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Society and Culture Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse! -- Calvin Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Society and Culture Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals... -- G. K. Chesterton May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries Society and Culture "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Society and Culture "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide. -- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "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) Society and Culture Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Society and Culture "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Society and Culture
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