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• THE WORST ANIMAL RESCUE During the firemen's strike of 1978
  he British Army had taken over emergency firefighting and on 14 January they were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat which had become trapped up a tree....
• The Vet Who Surprised A Cow In the course of his duties in August 1977, a Dutch veterinary surgeon was required to treat an ailing cow.
  To investigate its internal gases he inserted a tube into that end of the animal not capable of facial expression and struck a match....
• Largest Number of Driving Test Failures By April 1970 Mrs.
  Miriam Hargrave had failed her test thirty-nine times....
• The Most Unsuccessful Version Of The Bible The most exciting version of the Bible was printed in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the King's printers at London.
  It contained several mistakes, but one was inspired -- the word "not" was omitted from the Seventh Commandment and enjoined its readers, on the highest authority, to commit adultery....
• The Least Successful Collector Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting.
  She was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the works of Shakespeare....
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• The Worst Jury A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the remotest clue what was happening.
  The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him....
• The Greatest Mathematical Error The Mariner I space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral on 28 July 1962 towards Venus.
  After 13 minutes' flight a booster engine would give acceleration up to 25,820 mph...
• The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation.
  The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal pay enforcement officer....