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The Story of the Time I Worked a Hard Day in My Life

September 14, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I grew up in a middle class family in the south of England and I’ve often felt a certain tension…

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The Story of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States

April 24, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…

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The Story of Syphilis

April 23, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The arrival of the Spanish to the Americas was one of the greatest catastrophes ever experienced by any society as…

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The Story of Diogenes the Cynic Philosopher

April 2, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

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Moon Stories – What the Astronauts Told the People on the Moon…

March 29, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

There will probably always be people who don’t believe that the Americans went to the moon. It’s a free world…

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Bible Stories – Noah and All the Drowning People

March 29, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Some of our oldest stories are to be found in the Bible and Christians like to point towards the old…

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Coleridge, the Kubla Khan and the Funniest Story in the World

March 8, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The story goes that in 1797, Samuel Coleridge, one of the foremost English Romantic poets, awoke from a dream with…

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