Living in a book
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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A few years ago, I was staying at Tortworth Court Hotel for the first time, and found in the corridor some photographs of the history of the place as a Navy signals school during the war, called HMS Cabbala. After dinner, I was reading my Nottingham library book, which was a history of Bomber Command, called "Bomber Boys". I have been a constant member of various libraries since 1950, so this was one of perhaps 1500 library books read. I came to an acecdote about a pilot whose girlfriend had been a Wren stationed at HMS Cabbala.
That chapter, of that book, on that day, in that place.
Date submitted:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:28:01 +0000Coincidence ID:6579
