Notable Quotes

I am not seeking compensation but will inform potential dog owners of this scam – owner Johaness Baader said in an email to The Namibian after he was charged N$12 000 to fly his dog from Windhoek to Frankfurt by Air Namibia

IS IT just me, or all these Nelson Mandela death scares really becoming a bore? – Radio broadcaster Benjamin Moshatama said about the recent spike in reports claiming that the former South African president has died

THIS is sick really. Most of these people have been cleared by the US Justice system yet they continue to be treated like animals – really and the US considers itself the most developed and intellectual nation. Disgusting – A civilian comments after guards clashed with prisoners amid a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, leading officers to move detainees from communal to single cells at Camp 6.

From The History Books
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return – Born on April 15 1452, in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci was concerned with the laws of science and nature, which greatly informed his work as a painter, sculptor, inventor and draftsmen. His ideas and body of work – which includes ‘Virgin of the Rocks’, ‘The Last Supper’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Mona Lisa’ – have influenced countless artists and made da Vinci a leading light of the Italian Renaissance.

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