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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A large international team of researchers recently published the 240-megabase DNA sequence of Phytophthora infestans, a robust parasitic water mold responsible for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, in Nature (1). Breeders have not been able to produce potato cultivars that remain resistant to this insidious blight, aptly named as the plant...
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Culture Chat (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Football Club, but it had been done before. Finally, out of desperation, he suggested the Irish Potato Famine. As he says "I'm not that keen on potatoes and I'm not that mad on the Irish!" Apparently he ended up doing OK on the famine, but started making answers up in the the general knowledge round, and was disappointed John Humphries didn't have much...
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
An imminent appearance on Celebrity Mastermind (specialist subject the Irish Potato Famine picked at random - “I’m not that keen on potatoes and I’m not that mad on the Irish”) sounds like irresistible car crash telly to come, while the second he realises - half way through a demonstration of the Bishop version of foreplay - that his mum is in the audience is likely...
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Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
From the latest Uncle Ernie's Issues and Alibis : "... The British under Prime Minister William Lamb, aka The Viscount Melbourne was the first westerner to stumble into Afghanistan since Alexander the Great who had the sense to get out after a couple of years. It was the first Afghan war 1839-1842 where he got the British Army wiped out, save one single man and caused the Irish Potato...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... no. The fact that it's all the rage reinforces my prejudice. Tony Blair apologised for the great Irish potato famine of 1845-52, just as he did for Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade. Peter Hain, then Welsh and Northern Ireland secretary, apologised for both regions' roles in slavery too. More recently Brown apologised for the awful fate of Alan Turing, the great British...
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Celtic Sprite (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The design and customs associated with it originated in the Irish fishing village of Claddagh , located just outside the city of Galway . The ring was first produced in the 17th century during the reign of Queen Mary II, though elements of the design are much older. According to Baxters Jewellers the Claddagh Ring was first made by Richard Joyce, a member of an ancient Galway family who was...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent, I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European...
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Gates of Vienna (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... have been victims of various and sundry human rights violations to wit: the Norman Conquest, the Irish Potato Famine, Decline of the Hapsburg Dynasty, Napoleonic and Czarist adventurism, and gratuitous insults and speculations about the intelligence of Europeans of Polish descent, I, Walter E. Williams, do declare full and general amnesty and pardon to all persons of European...
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Skippy's Vegetable Garden (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... there's a non-bee speaking. And someone who don't need the pleasure of beauty. I did like to hear potatoes described as "exciting". The Irish potato famine of 1740, caused by Late Blight spreading rapidly in Irish fields planted almost exclusively with a single variety, lasted 3 years. I hope our Late Blight episode in New England is more short-lived....
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Frugal Café Blog Zone (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... the Great Depression as Obama said, what is our condition now? What tops the Great Depression? The Irish Potato Famine?)Why, maybe ANOTHER exaggeration would do the trick. Like announcing that Obama’s stimulus/porkulus package created thousands more jobs than it actually did. Inflate AND exaggerate… let’s see if that works.I won’t be nasty and unfair to POTUS as he has been...
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Bifurcated Carrots (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here’s a video made during the recent get-together in Oxford. This is Tom talking a bit about his seed catalog as it was in the past, together with his vision for the coming years. Tom also has a few words at the end of how important the Lumper potato is to him and [...]
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Osoblog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... onto the subject of her father: 'My dad is literally the biggest tight-arse, he's a miser, an Irish potato famine miser.' Seriously, doesn't Peaches have an agent or something to shut her up at moments like this? Or better yet, just stop her giving interviews altogether. She even moved the usually bland Fearne Cotton to note 'she hasn't got that base level of politeness or...
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Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... with cash. ‘My dad is literally the biggest tight-a***,’ Peaches complains. ‘He’s a miser, and Irish potato famine miser.’ Given he is such a tight-arse, one suspects Geldof may regret his support for Peaches’ spiritual journey. A French court has convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud, but stopped short of banning the group from operating in France. Two branches of the...
