Tag: history
Raila factor in Obama contest
"Right-wing activists in the United States are attempting to use Senator Barack Obama’s Kenyan links to discredit him. Senator Barrack Obama and Mr Raila Odinga. Photo/ FILEThe activists, most of them conseervative Christians, claim that Mr Obama is a relative of Prime...
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S NAZIS : An Open Letter to Bush
"Information wants to be free" said one cyber-dude.Indeed… Problem is, it isn’t !We are also being thought that : Information is power.That is probably why most Americans are oblivious of their own...
Norwegian blue parrot did exist
"This parrot is deceased A Monty Python fan has discovered that Norwegian parrots really did exist. Some 55 million years before John Cleese and Michael Palin immortalised the "Norwegian...
Okay.... So What IS a Super Delegate?
For starters, Super delegates are current and former leaders in the Democratic Party with voting power, existing only in the Democratic Party. They are not to be confused with the regular delegate count,...
Team news for Leeds v Carlisle Play Off Semi Final
Leeds v Carlisle (Mon)" Leeds v Carlisle (Mon) LEAGUE ONE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL FIRST LEGVenue: Elland Road Date: Monday, 12 May Kick-off: 1945 BST Coverage: Live scores on BBC Sport...
Idol Announces Final Three
America’s favorite singing pageant is one step closer to crowning a winner, as Fox’s American Idol bid farewell to Jason Castro and announced the final three contestants for Season 7. Let’s take a look at the...
'Grand Theft Auto IV' races into videogame record...
The highly anticipated 'Grand Theft Auto: IV' has raked in 500 million dollars in its opening week, setting videogame records and leaving all other competition in its virtual dust."Take-Two Interactive said...
Stars beat Sharks in game that lasted over 5 hours
The game kept going…and going…and going…and going for over 5 hours! The Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks in the 8th longest game in NHL history last night…or this morning since it ended at...
"Citizen History" Comes Alive with Launch of Link...
Linkory.com has launched the beta release of its innovative website - giving users a simple and effective way to harness and share memories via a media-rich and captivating online experience. "Everyone has memories,...
Starbucks to slash U.S. store openings
Fewer Starbucks will do us all a world of good, by forcing us to walk that extra ten steps to the Starbucks on the next corner. "Starbucks Corp said on Wednesday it would slash U.S. coffee store openings through 2011...
Midnight Madness: Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV ...
Sadly enough, I was one of those hapless folks waiting in line at my local EB Games at midnight last night for Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV (4). I wasn't going to do it (after all, I'm the 'morning guy' for...
Cossetanos, to the overdraft.
Darró's deposit, archaeological jewel of the Iberian period, opened the public. Near to the city of Barcelona there is located one of the archaeological vestiges of undoubted importance. The population of...
Manchesters epic and sometimes manic Football His...
"Gary James' hard graft spanning most of a lifetime has produced another footballing history book called, "Manchester - A Football History." Although we haven't yet read the book, it looks like it could be a corking read. Gary's passion is Mancunian football and his book...
Ban Ki-Moon to Chair UN Task Force on Food Crisis
The head of the UN has held a joint press conference with the head of teh World Bank to discuss how the two organisations are going to deal with the food crisis. So far Moon has been criticized for not doing enough to draw attention to the problem."United Nations...
Authors take on Tesco ‘tyrants’ over Thai leg...
Tesco is one of the UK's largest grocery chains and the 4th largest reteiler in the world acording to wikipedia.org. "
