Tag archive for ‘Britain’
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
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Stephanie Bottrill, British woman commits suicide, blames government and the ‘bedroom tax’

A British woman who committed suicide left a note blaming the government’s so-called “bedroom tax” for her death, authorities released this week. Stephanie Bottrill, who killed herself earlier More...

By Brandon Jones On Friday, April 26th, 2013
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London pavement explosion blamed faulty electrical grid VIDEO

Investigation is under way into explosions on Pimlico Road in central London which were captured on video by local resident. The explosion narrowly misses a passerby as a fireball shoots out from the ground, caught More...

By Dr. William Anderson On Monday, April 15th, 2013
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Paul Krugman’s Intellectual Honesty on Great Britain, Herbert Hoover and Margaret Thatcher

Bob Murphy has a post on Free Advice that deals with the intellectually dishonest way that Paul Krugman portrays Herbert Hoover and the Andrew Mellon quote, “Liquidate the farmers, etc.” Krugman clearly More...

By Brandon Jones On Thursday, April 11th, 2013
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British grandmother, Marina Chapman, claims to have been raised by capuchin monkeys

Marina Chapman’s new book, The Girl with No Name, claims that the British woman was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle for about five years of her childhood, adopting their behavior and eating the same More...

By Brandon Jones On Monday, April 8th, 2013
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Britain’s first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, dies at age 87

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a key figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. (some More...

By Brandon Jones On Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
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Jordan Sheard convicted for murdering a gay teen with Asperger’s syndrome by setting him on fire at boy’s birthday party

A man who killed a teenager by setting him on fire during his 18th birthday party has been convicted of manslaughter, receiving a three-and-a-half-year sentence. Steven Simpson Jordan Sheard, age 20, set Steven More...

By Brandon Jones On Monday, March 4th, 2013
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Texas researchers claim Hindenburg accident cause by static electricity, Britain to air documentary

The Hindenburg crash of 1937 is one of the most famous disasters in aviation history. But despite its fame, the cause of the crash has never been determined. A new study from the South West Research Institute in More...

By Brandon Jones On Friday, March 1st, 2013
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Edinburgh Zoo in UK plays Marvin Gaye, ‘Sexual Healing’ and ‘Let’s Get It On’ for the panda

Officials at the Edinburgh Zoo have revealed that they use Marvin Gaye’s classic “Sexual Healing” to help get the pandas in the mood. Partially because female pandas are only fertile for about More...

By Brandon Jones On Monday, February 18th, 2013
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Peter Lowe, British senior, jailed for 2 years after punching pregnant woman trying to steal her toddler

A senior citizen who repeatedly punched a pregnant woman in the stomach while trying to steal her baby girl has been jailed for two years. Peter Lowe, 68, has been branded ‘every parent’s nightmare’ More...

By Butter Bracco On Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
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Natalie McMillan sentenced after pleading guilty in death of infant, crushed under TV while she was on heroin

The mother of a baby boy who died after a TV toppled onto him has been sentenced to 15 months in prison. Natalie McMillan, age 25, pleaded guilty to child cruelty in the Kian McMillan case who died December 6, 2011. A More...