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WHEN BRITONS WERE SLAVES IN AFRICA
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, pirates operating out of north Africa enslaved thousands of men, women and children from the British Isles.The famous lines from the song ‘Rule Britannia’ proudly...
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MEDIEVAL LOVE TOKENS - SEVEN WAYS TO SAY "I LOVE YOU".
In medieval Europe, young lovers used all manner of media to declare their passion for one another – from exquisite French songbooks to lowly pieces of cattle bone.1. The secret admirer“Kiss me” is the...
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VICARS ON THE LIQUOR
In the 16th to the 18th centuries, a growing number of clerics found themselves up in court for drunkenness.It was the Saturday night before Christmas, 1721. Four bell-ringers from Northrepps in...
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GUERNICA
The bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War heralded a terrible new age of warfare. But who was the main culprit – Hitler or Franco?From 4.40 to 7.45 in the late afternoon of Monday 26...
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CELESTIAL EVENTS - IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS
Miniature from a manuscript of the Cambrai Apocalypse shows John the Evangelist looking on as a number of calamities befall Earth (13th-century)1. A match made in heavenHow a solar eclipse of 585 BC...
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ROMAN BRITAIN'S GREATEST REBEL
Caratacus led a huge revolt against Rome'In the AD 40s, the British king Caratacus led a huge revolt against Rome's occupying army.As dawn broke, the Roman army could be seen massing by the river bank:...
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BRITISH BISCUITS
A Britain’s long and rich biscuit history is unusual in that they were manufactured in quantity from quite early on, with the Victorians baking cheap biccies for all by the waggon-load.Seaborne trade,...
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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
1. Why do sweaty feet smell of cheese?The same bacteria that is used to ripen many cheeses, including Munster, Limburger and Port-du-Salut, also lives on our skin and eats dead skin cells. It’s called...
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LANGSTROTH MADE LIFE SWEET FOR BEES AND KEEPERS
Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth“Practical bee-keeping in this country is in a very depressed condition... and success is becoming more and more precarious,” Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth wrote at the start...
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BEST BARS IN AMERICA
Good Luck, New YorkFeel like a good drink?Herein, a highly select list of exceptional watering holes culled from a decade’s worth of cross-country investigations, hangovers, and aspirin.Ten years ago,...
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MAIORES LATICÍNIOS DO BRASIL
Foi divulgado nesta semana pela Leite Brasil o resultado do ranking dos maiores laticínios do Brasil no ano de 2017. A pesquisa, neste ano, apresentou os dados das 14 maiores empresas do setor (no...
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BY JUNIPER!
Students of alcohology have offered many theories to explain the antipathy of the average American girl toward juniper juice or deadeye, trequently sold under the trade name of gin.Mention the word gin...
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THE COMPLEX ART OF COOKING A SIMPLE CHICKEN.
Antoine WestermannAntoine Westermann has always had a rebellious streak. For nearly four decades, his brash but elegant spin on old-school haute cuisine won over the world’s most discerning diners at...
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THE LEAST BORING WAY TO COOK SALMON
Weather can be a bummer in Seattle, but it led chef Renee Erickson to a revelation. She was cooking outdoors when those familiar Pacific Northwest clouds started to roll in. She worried that her team...
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A SOCIEDADE COMO PROTAGONISTA
A herança político-burocrática de PortugalUm dos versos do Hino Nacional inquieta nosso subconsciente: "Deitado eternamente em berço esplêndido", diz, referindo-se ao Brasil. Pois bem, nos dias que...
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BEYOND THE CONDOM
Men want an alternative birth control. So why can’t researchers create one?IMAGINE THE SCENE: Arms tensed, bow lexed, a hunter on the African savanna draws in a slow breath as his prey moves into view....
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ONE BIG FAT TRUTH
The most likely reason for our epidemic is the one we don’t want to hear.Why are so many of us carrying so much extra baggage? It’s a question that has, ahem, weighed heavily on researchers ever since...
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QUE QUEIJO É ESSE?
Europa quer impedir Mercosul de usar nomes de produtos com indicação geográfica de origem.Ralado por cima do espaguete e em molhos cremosos vai o queijo parmesão. Para ser saboreado com vinho o que cai...
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TIRADENTES - UMA VILA AO PÉ DA SERRA
A região onde nasceu o principal nome da Inconfidência Mineira já foi rica em ouro e preserva seus costumes e tradições de mais de 300 anos.Foi pela suntuosa serra de São losé que os bandeirantes...
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36 THINGS DOCTORS DO TO PROTECT THEIR HEARTS
1. They eat eggs.“The science clearly shows that a diet without cholesterol doesn’t necessarily lower a person’s cholesterol levels. In fact, when the amount of cholesterol in a food is high, it’s...
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