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idea of the day iconCRIME: Think about the various disguises a criminal could adopt to avoid the police. You should also consider other methods of escaping justice: false ID and passport (where did he get them from?), false witnesses and alibis, criminal twins who appear to be in two places at once (or is one a villain and the other innocent?), setting up someone else to take the blame, stealing someone else's passport and replacing it with his (or a false one), backing up or refusing to back up an accomplice's story, persuading others to back up his story - perhaps by threatening them.


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Forthcoming
anniversaries of
historic events for you
to write about

In 3 months:
June 2010

* US Government Printing
   Office and Secret
   Service established
* First Father's Day
* Driving tests introduced
   in Britain
* Alcoholics Anonymous
   founded
* Dunkirk evacuation
* Italy declares war on
   France and Britain
* Desert War begins
* Britain bombs Italy
* Soviet Union occupies
   Lithuania
* Evacuation of France
* Soviet Union occupies
   Estonia and Latvia
* Churchill gives
   'Finest Hour' speech
* France surrenders to
   Germany
* Soviet Union invades
   Romania
* First kidney transplant
* Korean War begins
* Madagascar becomes
   independent
* Cuba nationalises US-
   owned oil refineries
* BBC TV Centre opens
* First female US Army
   Generals
* Babes in the wood
   murders
* US troops withdraw
   from Cambodia
* CNN launches
* Body of Nazi doctor
   Josef Mengele found in
   Brazil
* Thomas Sutherland
   kidnapped in Beirut
* Terrorist bomb causes
   Air India plane crash
   near Ireland
* Washington Summit
* Nickelodeon Studios
   opens in Florida
* Russia Day
* Moldova becomes
   independent
* First female chief
   constable
* British Prime Minister
   John Major resigns
* US space shuttle docks
   with Mir space station
* First British woman sails
   single-handed and non-
   stop around the world
* Inter-Korean Summit
* Map of human genome
   completed

Birth anniversaries

Sir Christopher Cockerell
John W. Campbell Jr.
Howlin' Wolf
Carmine Coppola
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Bill Naughton
Mary Whitehouse
David Rose
Sir Peter Pears
Konrad Zuse
Jean Anouilh
Frank Loesser

Death anniversaries

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
O. Henry
Lottie Dod
Richard Greene
Tage Erlander
Sir Rex Harrison
Robert Noyce
J. Presper Eckert Jr.
Hafez al-Assad
Brian Statham
David Tomlinson

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