Okay so you are at a party and you are served a drink with a ice cube in the shape of a ship. Not just any ship but resembling RMS Titanic. Do images come to mind of the star-crossed lovers of Cameron’s Titanic? How about the terror those aboard felt in those final moments? Or [...]
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A recent travel write-up noted how much Belfast has changed since peace began. “When I first visited Belfast in the early 1980s it was an uninviting destination by day and a ghost town by night. The Provos were blowing up the place and their Loyalist street rivals were retaliating with murderous intent. Dickens once described [...]
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I never knew that there was a coffee problem in Britain until I read Chloe Lambert’s article. She laments that British coffee was not up to snuff when compared to what you find elsewhere in the world. “I love my country. I love our sense of humour, our pubs, our theatre and I don’t even [...]
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The Titanic Cliche is really popular these days when talking about the economy. Cenk Uygur over at the Huffington Post recently blogged about the renomination of Fed Chief Ben Bernanke. And once again RMS Titanic makes an appearance: “I had large misgivings about Ben Bernanke before his hearings began. He’s given credit for steering our [...]
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