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Charlotte Macleod
Any good at quiz sheets? Help me with this one? Some are Scottish!?
Stuck on a few questions!!
What did my true love give to me on the 2nd day of Christmas?
Who helps Santa make all the toys?
Name the famous Scottish author of Kidnapped.
What is known in Gaelic as the water of life or uisge beatha?
What is the name of the pirate Captin in Pirates of the Carribean?
On which Island will you find the Old Man of Storr?
Where does Father Christmas Live?
On which Island is Calum’s Road built by Calum MacLeod and written about in the best selling book Callum’s Road?
What is the name of the pig that befriends the spider in Charlottes Web?
Many thanks for trying! Im useless as general knowledge!
google the answers, so lazy!
Der Letzte wird der Erste sein [vervlogt und zugenäht 13]
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Die Familiengruft. 4 CDs … |
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Thrill Ride – The Science of Fun (Large Format) [VHS] $5.89 Ever since a daring fellow in France constructed the first rudimentary roller coaster nearly 200 years ago, people have eagerly sought thrills and chills on the most frightening rides they could find. Featured in this video are the royalty of today’s white-knuckle adventure rides, including high-tech roller coasters in Tampa’s Busch Gardens and the Big Shot ride in Las Vegas which magnifies its in… |
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Orlando [VHS] Breathtaking and practically nondiscursive, Sally Potter’s audacious Orlando overcomes some dodgy performances and a narrative structure that could most generously be described as “loose” to emerge as a haunting, discussion-provoking trans-historical and transsexual drama. Commanded never to age by Queen Elizabeth (played with surprisingly little camp by legendary cross-dresser Quentin Crisp),… |
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How to Deal [VHS] $2.00 Teen idol Mandy Moore (A Walk to Remember) learns how to deal with an awful lot–How to Deal crams divorce, teen pregnancy, a wedding, a car accident, and a pot-smoking grandmother into a single year in the life of Halley Martin (Moore). Halley’s so resentful of her parents’ divorce (and her father’s impending remarriage) that she resolves not to fall in love–so of course a hunky guy named Macon … |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Complete Third Season $14.24 In this third season, Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), she of the “bright smile and infectious vivacity,” got to display some of that celebrated “spunk” of hers. In the season-opener, “The Good-Time News,” she demands to be paid the same amount of money as her predecessor. In “The Georgette Story,” she defies her boss, Lou Grant (Ed Asner), and vainglorious anchorperson Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) by… |
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Pollyanna $9.87 Georgina Terry stars as the young optimist, Pollyanna–the girl who sees a silver lining in every dark cloud–in this heartwarming “Masterpiece Theatre” adaptation of the Eleanor H. Porter novel. Keeping her chin up even after the death of her father, Pollyanna’s winning ways help her bitter Aunt Polly appreciate the sunny side of life. Amanda Burton, Kenneth Cranham also star. 100 min. Widescreen… |
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Thrill Ride – The Science of Fun (Large Format) $1.72 Ever since a daring fellow in France constructed the first rudimentary roller coaster nearly 200 years ago, people have eagerly sought thrills and chills on the most frightening rides they could find. Featured in this video are the royalty of today’s white-knuckle adventure rides, including high-tech roller coasters in Tampa’s Busch Gardens and the Big Shot ride in Las Vegas which magnifies its in… |
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The Silver Ghost (A Sarah Kelling Mystery) $4.99 Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittershohn are back in a whimsical whodunit involving a ghost–a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost. When a friend’s classic car disappears and a gardener is found murdered, Sarah and Max untangle a tapestry of Renaissance clues to ferret out the killer. HC: Mysterious Press…. |
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Something in the Water (Peter Shandy Mysteries) $5.50 Witnessing a sudden death when the town bully falls over dead at the table of a country inn, Professor Peter Shandy suspects foul play and wonders if it is related to another mystery involving an unlikely crop of lupines. Reprint. K. … |
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The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries) $3.99 Continuing the definitive series of classic mysteries by American Mystery and Nero Wolfe Award-winning author Charlotte MacLeod. What’s the proper way for a Boston landlady to react when her most obnoxious boarder – curmudgeonly Barnwell Augustus Quiffen, gets squashed by a subway train? Sarah Kelling already has a far nicer applicant for the drawing room suite he lived in, but then an odd eye wit… |