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:lol: God, I'm loving this. Americans owe their famous hot dog to Midland milkman Feb 26 2006 By Paul Cole AMERICA'S best-kept secret is out. The hot dog was invented not by a New Yorker but by ... a milkman from the Midlands. New research reveals that Harry M Stevens came up...

Re: RE: Prezza hates foreign muck. :lol: English sparkling fizzes with delight at top honour June 29, 2005 Adam Lechmere An English wine has been voted the the world's best sparkling wine – against competition from 55 countries. The RidgeView Merret Bloomsbury 2002 took World Wide...

Re: RE: Prezza hates foreign muck. Many of the foods that you think aren't English, but were imported into England, ARE English. Take chicken tikka masala. Many people think that chicken tikka masala, which is Britain's favourite food, is an Indian food. But it was invented in England. I...

Re: RE: Prezza hates foreign We gave the world the hot dog - one of America's favourite foods. That's why I made a mistake when I called a hotdog "foreign muck." And the same Englishman who invented the hot dog also invented baseball scoring cards and was the first person in the world to...

Saddam planned to deploy 'camels of mass destruction' By James Langton (Filed: 26/03/2006) Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces. The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip...

Guarded by a gold spectre Jul 28 2005 Wales Of The Unexpected By Richard Holland, Daily Post VERY exciting news for those of an antiquarian turn of mind is that the Mold Gold Cape is returning to Wales after more than 170 years. The cape - the largest piece of prehistoric gold...

Why is it that so many French people would rather riot than work? For nearly a fortnight, French students repeatedly have taken to the streets in protest of a modest labor reform proposed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. It seems that Villepin had the audacity to suggest that companies...

Hands up... you're on canine camera Police suspect that there's a gunman in the building. Maybe waiting to open fire if they move in. There's just one thing to do. Send for Fido. That's not the name of an intelligent, brave and well trained dog - it's the groundbreaking miniature TV system...

The Sunday Times March 26, 2006 A cemetery of secrets A Roman graveyard has been dug up in York. The skeletons all belonged to tall, strong men — and most are headless. Were they gladiators killed in the arena or victims of a deranged dictator? Richard Girling reports Like nobody else...

There's something wrong if a Western European country is too dangerous to enter...... Brits warned: Stay away from Paris 25th March 2006 British tourists have been warned to avoid the mob anarchy that's hit Paris British travellers were warned today to avoid some of France's most popular...

RAF hero in AK47 storm By TOM NEWTON DUNN Defence Editor AN RAF pilot has won a top medal for holding his helicopter steady under fire so an SAS sniper could hit a key terrorist. Squadron Leader Shane Anderson had to hover in position for as long as 25 MINUTES through a hail of...

Further proof that Britain was right to keep the £.... Greeks left skint by Euro Disaster ... Euro is ruining Greek economy From MICHAEL LEA in Brussels THE euro has wrecked Greek living standards since its introduction in 2002, officials admitted yesterday. Prices of consumer...

Typical peace activists. British peace activist Norman Kember hates the British and American troops so much for being in Iraq that he has failed to thank them for rescuing him. But he's not the only one. The Canadians also didn't thank their rescuers - The Times March 25, 2006 Army's...

A supersonic jet, built by British R&D company QinetiQ, has been launched in the Australian outback. A University of Queensland-led project launched the jet. 25 March 06 Hyshot III - QinetiQ returns to Woomera for scramjet flight test A £1m million QinetiQ scramjet experiment was...

Harrod's owner Mohammed Al Fayed says that when he dies, he wants his mummified body to be the hour hand of a clock on the roof of the store - Mummy Fayed to be clock By VIRGINIA WHEELER HARRODS owner Mohammed Fayed wants to be mummified when he dies and made into a giant CLOCK. The...

- Army hero Captain Pete Norton showed bravery and a "never mind" attitude that only a Brit could show. Hero British Army captain saved the lives of 8 American soldiers, despite having just lost a leg and an arm and having lost 84 pints of blood - Honour for hero captain By TOM NEWTON...

'World's Oldest' Tortoise Dies Old timer: The tortoise was thought to have been born more than quarter of a millennia ago Zoo keepers in India are mourning the death of a giant tortoise thought to have been born a few years before Marie Antoinette. The Aldabra tortoise is believed...

Quelle horreur! Un francais parle l'anglais! Zut alors! Chirac leaves summit as Frenchman speaks English Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:53 PM GMT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac briefly walked out of a European Union summit on Thursday when the French head of the EU's industry...

The Times March 24, 2006 Protests erupt into firebombings From Charles Bremner in Paris YOUTHS fought police and set fire to cars yesterday in violent incidents in the heart of the Paris Left Bank, after up to 300,000 university and secondary-school students demonstrated across France...

Cars: West is the worst By KEN GIBSON Motoring Editor EUROPE has been labelled a write-off when it comes to making reliable cars. French and Italian models account for NINE of the bottom 11 motors in a top survey. Even Land Rover’s big selling Freelander model is slated, finishing...