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In this revealing book, Max Cryer explores the truth or otherwise of facts and beliefs we may hav...

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Some people casually say 'touch wood' when they speak of something they hope will happen. Others ...

Who first wroteabsence makes the heart grow fonder ,accidentally on purposeorno pain, no ...

Why has Fido become a generic term for all dogs? Why did hundreds of people collect dog faeces - ...

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A - Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand lang...

The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A - Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand lang...

From our earliest years we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much though...

Some people casually say 'touch wood' when they speak of something they hope will happen. Others ...