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Kim Campbell's Upset Victory The exit polls were wrong by a huge scale, from the fact that Kim Campbell had 62 seats and there was to be a Liberal Minority Government with the Bloc being the Opposition, but however, the Progressive Conservatives had 100 seats by the end of the night, the...

___________________________________ Less than seven years ago he was ridiculed for his confused statement on Mars. Less than four years ago he was still though to be a joke. Less than two years ago he was still thought to be powerless. But everything was changing. Now he had the opportunity...

It was Saturday, and as in most of the world it was a holiday. While most of his classmates were out playing or watching television, Martin had a pretty bad case of the flu, which caused him to miss school the previous day. Martin was up at night, probably nine, and as his family only had one...

_____ "And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses." -Exodus 9:12 _____ The seder didn’t start until late, and so Anna slept, her best dress on. She was lucky - she wasn’t like so many other children on the ship. When she had...

John Lennon Review - Working Class Zero ** The Guardian | Music | 28th June 2017 Royal Albert Hall, London The best of the Plastic Ono Band fails to mask the fact John Lennon just isn't in demand anymore Thirty years ago a concert fronted by John Lennon would have been the talk of the town, a...

TOBACCO AND THE TORCH OF FREEDOM THERE are few Twentieth Century images more iconic than that of Malcolm Rifkind and Anthony Wedgwood-Benn smoking cigars beneath Big Ben in February 1991. Two men from opposite sides of the 53rd Parallel, ending a separation that had divided Britain for their...

Who Will Replace Salmond? 5 Possibilities 27 February 2023 | Owen Jones PICTURED: Salmond watching the results of the 2021 election, which gave The Group a fourth consecutive majority. It's been widely speculated that Alex Salmond will be resigning as Prime Minister and leader of The Group...

THE TIMES OF INDIA As Separatism loses it’s luster, Muslim League candidates face tough challenges from Congress candidates Sowmya Aji | TNN | April 28th, 2018, 12:19 IST The Muzaffargarh constituency, since 1952, has been staunchly AIML, however, there is a possibility that this might...

"It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland." - Horace It was always a spectacle when the First Citizen’s Zeppelin landed at the Capitol in Hoover, delivering the Princeps of mankind to the seat of his power. From the honour guard of navy jacketed Swiss soldiers of the Principal Guard...

“In yellow shoes I get the blues...” Syd was singing to himself, tunelessly stamping out the lyrics, loudly, to anybody who might be in earshot in the apartment. Currently, that was nobody, save for the massive heaps of cigarette butts - his most recent girlfriend had broken up with him, and he...

The Lost City of Wasco County A decade after the fall of Rajneesh, his disciples still eke out a living Dorothy Berry for the Free Agent, July 20, 1998 The high desert of Eastern Oregon is scattered with ghost towns. Desolate villages with names like Friend, Horse Heaven, and Cornucopia...

Pain can be rigorously hard to define when you are unable to trace it well. Uday wished he had the pleasure of being unsure - of perhaps chalking his pain up to something that wasn't as mundane as eight bullets fired from the gun of a Shi'ite. The fact he now had all the time to reflect on it...

MK gains Cornwall South West from CON Andrew George secures a stunning win for Mebyon Kernow and the Progressives, seizing Cornwall South West from Culture Secretary Sabastian Coe in a shocking upset. Former Progressives Spokesman for Regional Affairs, Andrew George, vowed to bring a strong and...

Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, 1989 Quyen looked out, at the ever-crowding streets of Saigon. The protestors, shouting their slogans, were united in something invisible, but still tangible. United in their… their what? Righteousness? No, righteousness is too much, but there’s more than a bit of...

Typically the inside of a bar is rowdy, full of friendly and not so friendly bustle. When they're open, that is. It was well past closing time at a pub in Chiswick as a man with a slight resemblance to a frog began proudly puffing away at a treasured cigarette, secure with the knowledge that he...

No job causes a greater amount of stress upon the holder than that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is a position which lends credibility, but also a high standard that must be strenuously kept up lest the respect of the officeholder diminish in...

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AT ANY COST Some of the older gays said that “Civil Assistance” had been as bad as the National Integrity mob were now back in the 70s, but Alan found that hard to believe. Had Civil Assistance ever come into the quarter and burnt down a whole block of flats? Maybe, but no one could give any...

Richard Nixon, the CEO who took Pepsi abroad and left his rivals in the dust, dead at 87 Nancy Gibbs Washington Post February 13 2000 Richard Milhous Nixon, the former Chief Executive Officer of Pepsi Cola and the only owner of the Washington Redskins to be forced to sell the team, died last...

A bitterness seemed to envelop the air. The sky was covered in shapeless clouds, eager to rain upon the city. As he stepped into the car and placed himself on the leather seats, a young man - young for his 50's, anyway - looked upon this dreary scene and remarked. "Not the greatest of weather,"...