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Cerrertonia Jun 2021 1:10pm, 12 Jun 2021 14,149 posts	0 Cerrertonia That the Hardy monument in DORCHESTER, is a monument to Thomas Hardy, but not the Victorian novelist.
macca 53 Jun 2021 3:49pm, 12 Jun 2021 28,916 posts	0 macca 53 That there’s a Thomas Hardy famous enough to have a monument who isn’t a novelist
McGoohan Jun 2021 4:00pm, 12 Jun 2021 49,627 posts	0 McGoohan Is it the Kiss Me Hardy fellow?
NDWDave Jun 2021 4:12pm, 12 Jun 2021 14,983 posts	0 NDWDave Or the wine chap?
Ocelot Spleens Jun 2021 4:23pm, 12 Jun 2021 31,093 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens I walked to the Hardy Monument fron Dorchester and knew that.
Cerrertonia Jun 2021 5:39pm, 12 Jun 2021 14,152 posts	0 Cerrertonia It is the kiss me hardy chap of Trafalgar fame, the monument went up in 1844. The novelist was born in 1840.
swittle Jun 2021 6:37pm, 12 Jun 2021 76,337 posts	0 swittle On BBC Radio 4 News Briefing today, abt 0540 hr. (From wikipda pg., 'The diary of a young girl.' ) "During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June 1942, her 13th birthday. According to the Anne Frank House, the red, checkered autograph book which Anne used as her diary was actually not a surprise, since she had chosen it the day before with her father when browsing a bookstore near her home. She began to write in it two days later."
CaptainDad Jun 2021 1:07am, 13 Jun 2021 3,143 posts	0 CaptainDad Gordon Brown dated the now Queen of Romania when he was at University
McGoohan Jun 2021 7:49am, 13 Jun 2021 49,628 posts	0 McGoohan That Romania has a Queen (and I suppose by extension a Royal Family)
.B. Jun 2021 9:08am, 13 Jun 2021 42,884 posts	0 .B. That Um’s daughter is a world champion (see his blog)