7 posts tagged Fictional War

Finally saw Atonement What was all the fuss about?  I think the film had much more weight at the beginning and end than some of the middle sections, which were sort of ho-hum.  The film’s opening is pretty scary; a whodunit balanced between manners, intellect, and passion, riding on the shoulders

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 5, 2008 Average score: 4.67/10 (9 teams) 1) How do you write the number 101 in binary? 2 ) Who plays the title character on the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101? 3) In the movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians, what’s the name of the hit song that Roger composes?

Round 2 at the Old Pequliar on Feb. 5, 2008 Average score: 4.67/10 (9 teams) 1) How do you write the number 101 in binary? 2 ) Who plays the title character on the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101? 3) In the movie One Hundred and One Dalmatians, what’s the name of the hit song that Roger composes?

I discovered this amazing story at engadget. The title is "iPod takes bullet for soldier". Kevin Garrad of the 3rd Infantry Division looks to have gotten a little assistance from an unexpected source while on a street patrol in Iraq recently, when the iPod in his pocket got in the path of a bullet fired at close range, slowing it down enough that it didn't pierce his body armor.

France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too.

Think Americans are confused? According to a UK Gold TV poll, about 25% of the Brits think Churchill was a myth. And there’s more … As reported on Yahoo, Sunday, February 3, 2008: LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.

Occasionally one stumbles over a book without expectations and suddenly finds a small gem, and wonders how it can have gone unnoticed so long.That was what happened, as to a lot of people, to the absent-minded king of an absent-minded nation —upon a time I cannot remember— when he read the Bible.Anyone