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Scotland Rejects Independence, the Act of Union Survives
Scottish voters have rejected independence by a margin of 55% to 45% according to the BBC. The Act of Union binding England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland, forming the United Kingdom, remains unchanged. A day of celebration for unionists, and a day of defeat and reflection for the independence movement. The Queen is expected to […]
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Get Your Booze Game On Quickly with Buckfast
A tonic of wine, sugar, chemicals, and caffeine made by monks in Devon, England, called Buckfast, is apparently one of the most brutal (and fast-acting) ways to get a buzz from alcohol that can be obtained legally on the market. Among the colloquial expressions used to describe Buckfast are: “Buckfast: gets you fucked fast,” and […]
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News Headlines May 22, 2013
- May 22, 2013
- Argentine Torture Cases
- beheading
- England
- English Defense League
- Ex-Ford Executives
- FBI Kills Suspect During Questioning Concerning Boston Bombing
- Irish Potato Famine
- London
- Massachusetts
- Measles Epidemic
- Muslim
- Pope Francis
- Public Schools Closed in Chicago
- Saudi Arabia
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev
- Terrorism
- Waltham
- Woolwich
- Woolwich Beheading
Measles Epidemic Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Identified Ex-Ford Executives Charged in Argentine Torture Cases Pope Francis Proclaims Atheists Redeemed in Interview Saudi Arabia Executes 6, 5 of Whom Were Crucified Crazed Muslim Men Behead British Soldier in Woolwich, England FBI Shoots, Kills Suspect During Questioning Concerning Boston Bombing Historic Number of Public Schools Closed in […]
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News Headlines May 15, 2013
- May 15, 2013
- Airstrikes
- Argentina
- Argentine courts
- Britain
- Brits
- China
- Czech pharmacies
- Dalai Lama
- Doctor Who
- England
- Gaza
- inflation
- internet control
- Israel
- Japan
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- KFC
- medical marijuana
- Norwich
- OECD
- Okinawa
- Peru
- Rich-poor divide
- Sci Fi Convention
- smugglers
- Star Wars
- Syria
- Tibetan monk
- UK
- United Kingdom
Smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Into Gaza Tibetan Monk in Possession of Tapes of the Dalai Lama Beaten to Death 11 Governments Meeting in Peru to Discuss Control Over the Internet Czech Pharmacies Dispensing Medical Marijuana OECD Claims Rich-Poor Divide Widening Brits Financially Lacking Compared to Neighbors Star Wars and Doctor Who Fans Battle at […]
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Britain Plans to Shutter Older Prisons Possibly in Favor of 2,000-person ‘Super Prison’
Among those prisons scheduled to be closed is HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset, the UK’s oldest operating prison. Also known as Cornhill, Shepton Mallet began operating in 1625 after an Act of King James I requiring every county to have a house to keep criminals. The prison was described as having extremely poor sanitation in […]
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London Fashion Week 2012
The Guardian UK’s Five Talking Points video from London’s 2012 Fashion Week. [The Guardian]
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Passengers Asked to Help Airline Purchase Return Fuel.
Charter airline Comtel stranded hundreds of its own passengers on the runway in Amritsar, India, asking them for money to help pay for the cost of refueling. Passengers would not be allowed to leave until they gave the airline another $200 or about 10,000 rupees. This was not the first time Comtel extorted its customers […]
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British rioters locked away, once tough now cry all day.
Oh, would be anarchists and revolutionaries, aka the children who caused the London riots and the other riots which gripped England for a while, are now locked away in jail and are finding life there to be quite difficult. Of course, prisons around the world have their own justice system, and English juvenile detention facilities […]
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