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   "Bunge"  wrote in message   
   news:cmoev8$7t5$1@inews.gazeta.pl...   
   > "H"  wrote in message news:cmo5ss$fsk$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...   
   >>   
   >>>> So you got it then.  Saw the well used by Columbus for water for the   
   >>>> boat(s), & huge statue of him, and a little church .. all surrounded by   
   >>>> horrible industrial factories etc.   
   >>> Yus thankyou, did you throw in a shilling and make a wish?  I allus   
   >>> found it amazing that when he arrived in amerkia he insisted on wearing   
   >>> that grubby raincoat.   
   >>   
   >> No, not even a euro!  Is he still alive, Columbo?   
   > Barely .... lol   
   >   
   > Peter Falk, Born 1927 - Present   
   >   
   > Triva Bits.   
   >   
   > Not very tall, 5' 6" .... Cuds will no doubt chortle at that!   
   >   
   > His wonky eye.  His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three,   
   > because of cancer.   
   >   
   > Is a Certified Public Accountant.   
   >   
   > Falk puts damper on rumour that his trademark 'Columbo' raincoat has been   
   > placed in the Smithsonian Institution: insists it's in his upstairs   
   > closet.   
   >   
   > Columbia Studios chief, the boorish Harry Cohn, rejected Falk declaring,   
   > "For the same money, I can get an actor with two eyes!"   
   >   
   > Once when he was playing in a Little League game, the umpire called him   
   > out. Falk thought that he was safe. He pulled his glass eye out of its   
   > socket and handed it to the umpire, telling him, "Here, I think you might   
   > need this."   
   >   
   > His daughter Catherine Falk is a private detective in real life.   
   >   
   > Source.   
   > Bospho's-mediapedia.   
      
   Interesting.  Didn't know about his eye.  5'6" .. Cuds would tower over him   
   !   
      
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