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"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."


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approbation: formal or official approval; also, praise.

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On this Day

  - Tuesday, 9th February 2010

1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade
United States Senator Joe McCarthy accuses more than 200 staff in the State Department of being Communists.

1966: New nuclear reactor for Dounreay
A Protype Fast Reactor will be built at the Dounreay power station in a remote part of Scotland, the government announces.

1995: Space pioneers take first small steps
British-born Michael Foale and the first African-American astronaut, Bernard Harris, walk in space as part of a Nasa experiment.

1983: Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers
A nationwide hunt for 1981 Derby winner and prize stallion Shergar begins in Ireland.

1979: Forest break football transfer record
Football club Nottingham Forest clinches Britain's first £1m transfer deal.

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