A Year Without Spending Any Money
Posted on November 30, 2009 by admin in Finance, Society
Thirty year old Mark Boyle, celebrated the completion of a year-long challenge, by hosting a Freegan Festival at Hamilton House, in Stokes Croft, Bristol, where he cooked a free three-course meal for the public. For the past 12 months Boyle has lived as a ‘freeconomist’, living a self-sufficient lifestyle in a caravan in Timsbury, near [...]
Black Friday Feeding Frenzy
Posted on November 30, 2009 by admin in Business, Society
In different countries Black Friday has entirely different meanings. For some it is when Friday falls on the 13th day of the month, as it did in November. For the USA, however, Black Friday is an annual event, which announces the beginning of the Christmas shopping spree. The day after Thanksgiving, Friday 27th November, is [...]
The Perfect Gift For The Hard To Buy For Friend
Posted on November 26, 2009 by admin in Promotion
Searching for that gift for the person who has everything? We have the perfect answer for you. Buy an entry in Win a Resort to win a tropical island holiday for two, airfares paid out of the main centres of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. You could also win a free trip to the live [...]
Guinness World Record And World Heritage Site
Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin in Promotion
On the tropical island of Vanuatu, in the South pacific, Chief Roi Mata’s Domain, a World Heritage Site, has featured once more on the world stage. It is found in the final chapter of a story that involved 838 participants in a Guinness World Record Challenge, held in Port Vila, on the 19th November, by [...]
Tortoise Tale In Successful Guinness World Record
Posted on November 24, 2009 by admin in Promotion
Dr Wendy Stenberg-Tendys was asked in a recent radio interview, “How did you manage to get 838 participants, mainly school students, to write a proper story in the Guinness World Record challenge, of How Many People to Write a Story in 24 Hours”. “It was a matter of organization, from Melanesian Tours busing in the [...]
Vanuatu Breaks Guinness World Record.
Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin in Education, Entertainment, Promotion
Vanuatu claimed the Guinness World Record, on November 19th for ‘How Many People Can Write a Story in 24 Hours’. The attempt was hosted by YouMe Support Foundation, a Vanuatu based charity. 838 participants took part, mainly school students from around Port Vila. The record was previously held by Novum Verlag Gmbh in Neckenmarktt, Austria, [...]
Could The Same Outfits Have Been Accidental?
Posted on November 10, 2009 by admin in Fashion, Politics, Women
There is no great blooper in the world of high fashion, than when two people accidentally arrive at a function dressed in identical outfits. This is never more important than when the two people happen to also be high profile, as well as the world’s most powerful women. Just such an accident happened when Secretary [...]
China Orders Nine Men Executed
Posted on November 10, 2009 by admin in Society
Thousands across Europe celebrate the pulling down of the Berlin wall 20 years ago, yet across the world, China held secrecy-shrouded trials and then executed nine men, for committing crimes during July’s riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjain region. The ruling came from the Supreme People’s Court, condemning to death eight Uighurs, [...]
Riding The Car
Posted on November 9, 2009 by admin in Society
Police have reported that a United States tourist had died in Puerto Rica. He was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend’s moving car, when he fell and broke his neck. Police spokeswoman Yolanda Hernandez says 29-year-old Long Beach, New York, resident Jorge Geysel fell off his friend’s Isuzu Trooper as he [...]
Those Who Commit Adultery Are Stoned To Death
Posted on November 9, 2009 by admin in Society
Somalia is a country that has been without a functioning national government for 18 years. In southern Somalia Ismlamists have stoned a man to death for adultery. His pregnant girlfriend was spared until such time as she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in the port town of Merka, in front of a [...]
