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The Great Sparrow Campaign of China.

In 1958 Mao Zedong decided that sparrows were a pest because they ate a lot of grain, and ordered the people to kill them all. By 1960 hundreds of millions of sparrows had been killed. However, this meant the locust had lost one of its main predators, thrived, ate much more grain than the sparrows, and caused a mass starvation that killed estimates of between 20 to 70 million people.
 
Harry Lauder's Scottish song "Roamin' in the gloamin " was on the radio yesterday and I was curious to know what gloamin was, after hearing it for years and years.
Twighlight.
 
The Maori weren't the original inhabitants of New Zealand.

Proper touchy subject this from what i have read, i would suggest if you ever go to New Zealand dont bring it up.

I book i read said that Maori are descendants of Chinese explorer who were sent out to map the world in the 1400's. We forced to settle on the land after problems and never returned to China.

Could all be bollocks like.
 
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