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 CHILDREN: Children do tell lies. And they make up strange fantasies; from imaginary friends and invisible pets to bogeymen and even entire worlds. Many stories have been written about children who do this, but they're usually about the child who tells lies or makes up fantasies. But spare a thought (and write a story) about someone who's on the receiving end. 'Stan, did you throw that stone?' 'No, Martha threw it.' Stan gets away with it (again) and the long-suffering and wholly innocent Martha gets into trouble (again). So write a story from her point of view. Stan will get his comeuppance at the end of course. And Martha's years of torment and wrongful punishment will (hopefully) also be recognised and something will be done to make amends.
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(200) Louisiana becomes the 18th
U.S. state
(150) Abraham Lincoln abolishes
slavery in District of Columbia, USA
(100) Titanic sinks after hitting iceberg
on maiden voyage
(100) First woman to fly across English Channel
(100) Fenway Park and Navin
Field baseball stadiums open
(100) Pravda first published
(90) Joseph Stalin elected leader of the Soviet Union
(80) von Hindenburg elected Chancellor of Germany, defeats
Adolf Hitler
(75) First appearance of cartoon character Daffy Duck
(75) Spanish Civil War: Germany bombs Basque town of Guernica
(70) World War II: the Bataan Death March
(70) Malta awarded the George Cross
(60) World War II: the Treaty of Peace
with Japan and the Treaty of Taipei
(60) The Diary of Anne Frank
was first published in English
(50) Seattle World's Fair (Century
21 Exposition) opens
(50) Ranger 4: first U.S. space probe
to land on the Moon
(40) Nixon authorises bombing of North Vietnam
(40) Biological Weapons Convention signed
(40) NASA launches Apollo 16 - first manned landing in
lunar highlands
(40) First people to row across the Pacific Ocean
(30) Falklands War begins
(30) Canada Act
becomes law, severing Canada's last ties with Britain
(30) Israel withdraws from Sinai
Peninsula
(25) Ronald Reagan declares AIDS
'public health enemy No. 1'
(25) Duchess of Windsor's jewellery
sold for £31
million ($50 million)
(25) Fox launches its first
prime-time TV schedule
(25) 'The Simpsons' first broadcast
in
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(20) Mafia boss John Gotti convicted
of murder, racketeering, obstruction
(20) Siege of Sarajevo,
Bosnia begins
(20) Panama leader Noriega
convicted of drug trafficking, racketeering
(20) Disneyland Paris (also known as Euro Disney)
opens
(20) President of Afghanistan resigns as regime collapses
(20) World's largest McDonald's
fast-food restaurant opens in Beijing, China
(20) Betty Boothroyd: first woman Speaker
of House of Commons
(20) Los Angeles riots, USA
(10) Netherlands legalises euthanasia
(10) U.S. congressman James Traficant convicted of bribery,
racketeering
(10) U.S. actor Robert Blake arrested
for murdering his wife
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(100) John Le Mesurier
(100) Kim Il-sung
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(75) Saddam Hussein |
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(200) George Clinton
(100) Clara Barton
(100) Bram Stoker
(60) Stafford Cripps
(50) Stuart Sutcliffe
(30) Arthur Lowe
(30) Celia Johnson
(25) Buddy Rich
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(20) Isaac Asimov
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(10) Robert Urich
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