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• Whisky News

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 435
  Both today’s postings are courtesy of TBLFP readers which is great. I really appreciate you taking time to forward stuff. John the lensman in Bonhill contacted me yesterday about the story of whisky from the Shackleton polar expedition being searched for in ice (where it has lain since 1909) and how it is regarded ...
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• Drilling Through Antarctic Ice -- to Find Whisky

  
  Asylum India — Authority: 142
  Filed under: Food , Weird Before you get too excited, no, researchers havent found underground Antarctic caves filled with a naturally occurring whisky. But a team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to recover crates of the malt which were abandoned ... Read more   Permalink  |  Email ...
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• No word yet on whether or not its a single malt...

  
  A Brooklynite on the Ice — Authority: 116
  Via the continuously fabulous Boing-Boing comes the exciting news that a couple of cases of Scotch abandoned by Ernest Shackletons expedition may soon be disinterred by the Antarctic Heritage Trust after one hundred years buried in ice. As much as one would like to have a sip, tasting the romance and aura imbued by ...
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• CIPD conference summary: Connectivity

  
  HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM) — Authority: 427
        Jackie Orme didn’t include this as a theme, but it was certainly one for me.  And I think it builds upon the previous three: transparency , authenticity and sustainability .  And behind this is the fact that we live in a social world – and this came through strongly too: In ...
  3 days ago

• Drilling through Antarctic ice -- to find whisky

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 147
  Filed under: Booze , Weird Before you get too excited, no, researchers havent found underground Antarctic caves filled with a naturally occurring whisky. But a team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to recover crates of the malt which were abandoned ... Read more   Permalink  |  ...
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• Prince William and Prince Harry set up charitable foundation

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Prince William and Prince Harry have taken one of their most important steps together in public life by setting up their own charitable foundation.
  5 days ago

• Drilling for Whiskey

  
  Alternative Health, Natural, Environmental & Organic News Blog — Authority: 127
  In 2006 restoration workers from New Zealand, led by Al Fastier, found a crate of whiskey under the floor of a hut in Antarctica. They were too deeply embedded in ice to be reached. As it turns out, the crate was shipped to the Antarctic by a British polar explorer named Sir Ernest Shackleton back in 1909 – an ...
  6 days ago

• Using social media at CIPD09

  
  HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM) — Authority: 427
    My favourite session yesterday was Nick Shackleton-Jones ( @shackletonjones ) on the use of social media supporting online learning at the BBC.  I was going to blog on this, but Rob Moss from Personnel Today got their first, so see his summary on this. Instead, I thought I’d write about the use of ...
  6 days ago

• New Zealanders Drilling for Whiskey in Antarctica

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 788
  A group of explorers from New Zealand are traveling to a campsite of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1909 Antarctic expedition in the hopes of finding whiskey left behind beneath the floorboards of a shelter: Among the supplies British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton abandoned on his unsuccessful 1909 expedition to the ...
  1 week ago

• Whiskey buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 100 year to be recovered

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Antarctica , New Zealand Ever wanted to try a 100 year old Scotch chilled to perfection? Than listen up, this story is for you! According to this article from the BBC , the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has announced plans to retrieve a pair of crates buried ...
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• Pay gap revisited

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 126
  The new official figures on the gender pay gap , published last week, make an interesting read and have, as usual, been used as a stick with which to beat employers. It’s worth looking at them in a bit of detail. It’s a bit complicated, so bear with me.   The internationally used comparison takes the mean pay ...
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• Perhaps the Best Discovery of This Century

  
  The Bull Speaks! — Authority: 121
  And no one has tasted this make of Scotch in many decades...
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• World Briefing | Antarctica: New Zealand Group Has Plans to Retrieve Explorer’s Whisky

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Specialists plan to recover two crates of Scotch whisky left more than 100 years ago by the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and trapped deep in Antarctic ice.
  1 week ago

• Neat: Drillers seek famed explorers Scotch under Antarctic ice

  
  USATODAY.com Money - Block — Authority: 828
  When Ernest Shackleton abandoned his 1909 expedition just short of the South Pole, he left behind two cases of McKinlays Old Scotch. Three years ago historians found the pine crates embedded deeply beneath the hut where the explorer and his men stayed alive during the long, brutal winter. The conservationists left the ...
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• Shackleton’s Scotch off the rocks

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 488
  Fresh from the South Pole, a bottle of Rare Old Scotch by McKinlay & Co, is to be cut from one of two cases buried in Antarctic ice for over a hundred years, a relic of Shackleton’s doomed expedition.Once freed from the ice by A New Zealand expedition at the Pole, the bottle is to be [...]
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• Drilling through Antarctic ice -- to find whiskey

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 572
  Filed under: Booze , Weird Before you get too excited, no, researchers havent found underground Antarctic caves filled with a naturally occurring whiskey. But a team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to recover crates of the malt which were abandoned ... Read more   Permalink  |  ...
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• South Pole explorers to drill for Sir Ernest Shackletons whisky

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons illfated voyage to the South Pole a century ago.
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• 400 Feared Dead in Cherry, Ill., Mine Disaster

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 496
  An explosion and fire trapped 400 men yesterday at a coal mine near Cherry, Ill., about 100 miles southwest of Chicago, and mine officials fear that all may be dead.
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• Shackleton – Three EPs

  
  onethirtybpm.com — Authority: 537
  Shackleton Three EPs [Perlon; 2009] Links: Perlon | Purchase on Insound Posted by Andrew Ryce on 11 November 2009 Shackleton’s changed. And not in the way you might expect. As the ever-fickle genre of dubstep explodes and splinters into tiny little fragments all around him, he’s utterly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Caja Madrid: El valor del dinero

  
  elrincondelpublicista — Authority: 141
  La entidad emprende un ambicioso programa de fidelización comunicado con una campaña de Shackleton. 2038 es el número de identificación de Caja Madrid y a él ha recurrido la entidad como icono publicitario para el ambicioso programa de fidelización que acaba de emprender y que estará activo al menos durante los ...
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