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A study by MITI - Japan's equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world's most important inventions were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese. The figures offered by MITI are generally agreed throughout the scientific and...

Editor's note: Graham Smith has been chief executive since 2005 of Republic, which campaigns for a democratic alternative to the monarchy. Previously he was involved in political campaigning, community activism and the corporate sector. London (CNN) -- With all the fuss in the media at the...

If you’re feeling anxious about how U.S. kids lag the world in science and math, or just in a funk about politics or the mess in Europe, take in this story of a high school freshman from Crownsville, Md. who came up with a prize-winning breakthrough that could change how cancer and other...

....tomorrow, may not be around so I figured to wish you all a happy one for tomorrow. Enjoy friends and family and all my best wishes.

The Left on the European continent consider Britain to be an American stooge and a Trojan horse within the European Union intent on undermining the welfare state. Their opposition to the “Anglo-Saxons” has developed into a genuine hatred of the British, as became apparent last Tuesday in a...

LONDON — Britain has apologized and agreed to pay compensation to thousands of veterans of the Mau Mau nationalist uprising in Kenya, which was brutally suppressed by the British colonial government in the 1950s. It could pave the way for further claims against Britain for its actions in...

The Butterfly Effect proves that you only need a major warmonger to transform a minor incident to world war. Winston Spencer Churchill's sadomasochist career lasted half a century, and no other Western warmonger was more calamitous for his country and civilization than Churchill. More than any...

Harry Truman stands on trial for crimes against humanity for his decision to drop the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. The United States Air Force dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the mornings of...

Review finds thousands of papers detailing shameful acts were culled, while others were kept secret illegally Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling...

Old news, but interesting. Click link for video. 8O Ont. dad arrested after daughter draws picture of gun: Reports | Ontario | News | Toronto Sun Police arrested a Kitchener, Ont., father outside his daughter's school because the four-year-old drew a picture of him holding a gun. Jessie...

Last week’s outbreak of raunchy frosh-week chants at two of Canada’s leading universities – one on each coast – made national headlines. Television reporters covered the events with the sorrowful solemnity normally reserved for crimes against children. News anchors and politicians called the...

The International Energy Agency (IEA), which has a domestic counterpart in the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA), just released a bombshell: Our country could become the world’s largest oil producer by 2020 (overtaking Saudi Arabia) and a net exporter by 2030. Domestic oil production is up...

The separation of church and state is an important issue in many different societies. Should the government actively support and endorse any particular religions or religion generally? Should the government suppress religion in public so as to prevent sectarian strife? Or should the...

Three decades ago, the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood gave a famous lecture to an American audience about Canadian-American relations. It remains, to this day, the most precise articulation of Canadians' unbearably smug sense of superiority ever offered. In it, she addresses her childhood...

Pretty cool. Canada & The United States: Bizarre Borders

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......according to the Brits. The article is a bit old, but still true? More than Half of Brits Believe Sherlock Holmes Was Real, Poll Says