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French restaurant tax drops in bid to lure customers from fast …

June 22nd, 2009 NY restaurant uses Italian grandmas as chefsNEW YORK — Now that's Italian ! A Staten Island restaurant is relying on a group of Italian -born grandmothers for its menus. The women take turns cooking at 35-seat Enoteca Maria, .... ketsangtai Great for UK Network Marketers - Unlimited calls to USA, Canada, Australia , Ireland and Western Europe for only 4.99 p/m http://tr.im/pR5O;...

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DJ-ing Is My Oasis, Insists Ulster-Bound Gallagher

The DJ brother of rock’s most famous siblings — Noel and Liam Gallagher — has said he’s happy doing his own thing and has no regrets about not joining Oasis. Paul Gallagher, the eldest of the three brothers and a successful DJ with a residency in a Belgium nightclub, said it was his love of music which influenced Noel and Liam when they were growing up and that he was never...

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This Day In History - 8 June: The Viking Age Begins at Lindisfarne, Muhammad and England's Black Prince Die

793 - Vikings from Norway landed at Lindisfarne , sacking the abbey and slaughtering the inhabitants. The entry for the year 793 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is: This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery, dragons flying across the firmament. These...

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This Day In History - June 3: Tiananmen Protest, Khomeini, and The Goddess of War

350 – After the revolt of Magnentius , Roman usurper Nepotianus proclaimed himself "emperor" and entered Rome with a band of gladiators. His reign in Rome would only last four weeks. Magnentius, hearing of the revolt, sent a force to deal with the Nepotianus and retake Rome. They slew Nepotianus, put his head put on a spear and paraded it about the city. 1140 – Peter Abelard was...

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On this day in Hisdtory - Jun. 3

0350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus , of the Constantinian dynasty , proclaims himself Roman Emperor , entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators . 1098 - First Crusade : Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege . 1140 - French scholar, Peter Abelard found guilty of heresy. 1326 - Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark . 1395 - Ivan Shishman...

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UK Muslims, the BNP, and EU Elections

On June 4, European Muslims in 27 countries can take an action on obstacles challenging their integration process and play a role in countering the extreme right wing's danger in Europe through making well-versed choices on the European Parliamentary elections. Seventy two Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will be representing the British electoral region in the European Parliament for the...

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Decline of freshwater fishing would have forced our ancestors to fish at sea

England - An international project shows that medieval fishermen took the sea for the first time 1,000 years ago due to a large decline in freshwater fish. The findings on the identification of marine diversity may have an increased impact on the current management of the oceans. Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and York were studied and dated fish bones found on archaeological sites...

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Ocean life in olden days is detailed

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 27 (UPI) -- Census of Marine Life historians meeting in Vancouver, Canada, say they have reconstructed images of past sea life that boggle the imagination. The researchers said they used such sources as old ship logs, literary texts and tax records to reconstruct what life in the ocean was like prior to the early 1800s. Before oil hunters harpooned whales by the hundreds,...

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Kisiizi Hospital Twins With UK

THE Archbishop of York, the Rev. Dr. John Sentamu, has supported a project by the University of Chester and the Countess of Chester Hospital in UK, to train nurses and midwives in Kisiizi Hospital in Rukungiri district.

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Bulgaria Children Among Unhappiest in Europe

Bulgarian children are among the unhappiest in Europe according to the latest UK research results announced late Tuesday. The research, focusing on youngsters aged up to 19, was compiled by researchers at York University in northern England for the Child Poverty Action Group using data mainly from 2006. The researchers assessed the countries using 43 separate criteria, ranging from infant mortality...

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Children of broken Britain

The UK is the most eeeevilest place ever in the whole wide universe to be a child. The research carried out at the University of York for the Child Poverty Action Group, echoed a report two years ago from UNICEF that put British children at the wrong end of a list of the 21 most advanced [...]

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Royal welcome for AirAsia X inaugural flight

HRH The Duke of York was special guest of honour at Stansted Airport yesterday as he welcomed the arrival of AirAsia X’s inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur.The service, which marked the launch of the first ever low-cost flights to link South East Asia with the UK, is set to revolutionise long-haul travel, and also offer [...]

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A Royal First Night For The Young Victoria - News UK

Princess Beatrice, her sister Eugenie and their mother Sarah, Duchess of York, braved torrid weather in London's Leicester Square to tread the royal purple carpet for the screening of The Young Victoria.Beatrice, who has a cameo role as a lady-in-wa ...

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Royal christening for UK's newest steam engine

YORK, England -- The first new mainline steam locomotive to be built in Britain for nearly 50 years was christened Thursday by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.