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• Trump’s mineral grab has all the elements of an earworm | Brief letters

  19-02-2025 18:45
  Trumped by Tom Lehrer | The wrong don | Gulf names | Cork house | DogeYour article, referring to rare earth elements including europium, dysprosium, gadolinium, praseodymium, holmium and ytterbium, was very enlightening (What are Ukraine’s critical minerals – and why does Trump want them?, 17 February). However, it was difficult for me to read, owing to the persistent intrusion of the earworm of a certain song by Tom Lehrer.
  John O’Dwyer
  Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire&bu
  
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• Country diary: Looking under lichen for a stranger’s name | Derek Niemann

  19-02-2025 06:30
  Beckington, Somerset: We’re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family membersA “ten-pound pom” left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran’s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed
  
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• Country diary: Looking for names before time takes them away | Derek Niemann

  19-02-2025 06:30
  Beckington, Somerset: We’re digging up the past in a rural churchyard, connecting people to their long-lost family membersA “ten-pound pom” left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran’s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in touch with a second cousin I never knew existed
  
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