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A glimpse of 1849
My dear Children--The dress of the Hindoos is very simple. A single piece of cloth uncut, about three yards in length and one in width, wrapped round the loins, with a shawl thrown over the shoulders, constitutes the usual apparel of the people of respectability. These garments are often fringed with red silk or gold. The native ladies frequently almost encase themselves in cloth or silk. Under such circumstances, their cloths are perhaps twenty yards in length. Most of the native gentlemen now wear turbans, an ornament which they have borrowed from the Mohammedans This consists of a long piece of very fine stuff, sometimes twenty yards in length and one in breadth. With this they encircle the head in many folds. Read moreODI Rating Chart
You can find a very handy chart comparing the ODI perfomances of the leading cricketing nations here. Australia is on top and South Africa comes next. There is little to choose between the rest. View ODI Rating Chart
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Quotes for the season
The merely human Christ is a made-up figure, a piece of artificial selection, like the merely evolutionary man - The Everlasting Man.
Because they have themselves invented a reason to explain a result, they almost deny the result in order to justify the reason - The Everlasting Man.
People cannot easily get rid of the mental confusion of feeling that the foundations of history must surely be secure; that the first steps must be safe; that the biggest generalisation must be obvious. But though the contradiction may seem to them a paradox, this is the very contrary of the truth. It is the large thing that is secret and invisible; it is the small thing that is evident and enormous - The Everlasting Man.
The purpose of an open mind, like that of an open mouth, is to close it on something solid. - G. K. Chesterton