Assignment Challenge - 5 totally different subjects

Having thought about this one for some time, I've managed to choose the themes that I'm going to write about.

 This year it will be the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination but I'm sure that this is pretty much well covered.

I preferred something a little more  ... I can't think of the word.
Answers on a post card please.


They really are random & some I haven't got a clue about at the moment.
Still, that's the joy of a pin & and a large encyclopaedia ...

Here they are....

1.  Gumball 3000 - squeals of rubber on tarmac & an exciting, 3000 mile journey for no apparent reason other to have fun.

2.  Dr Zahi Hawass - friend or fraud?  What's happened to him since he was removed as Minister of Antiquities.  He didn't do a bad job really - his heart was in it after all.

3.  Slugs - What are they good for?  I'll be trying to discover the positives..... hmmm

4.  Polish Scout & Guide association during the WW2 - named the Grey Ranks.  (Not a pin & encyclopaedia choice but one close to my heart & homeland.


5.  TB Badger Cull - For or against.  I remembered an article on Farming Today.  It was many years ago now & a particular farmer chose to use mineral licks that he kept dotted around his farm for the badgers & bovine TB hadn't touched his herd.


So there, they are... & the winner is ...