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  Kookiness Abounds on Guinness World Records Day

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:35 PM ET

  seeing a little of both as a number of wacky world records are broken across the globe as part of the fifth annual Guinness World Records Day. In England, 59-year-old Londoner Manjit Singh earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Record for pulling a double-decker bus 23 yards ... with hi Read More

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  Veterans Worldwide Take a Bow

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:19 PM ET

  goodbye to its three remaining WWI vets, William Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, this year. But that certainly did not stop the Queen of England from paying her respects to former members of the British military. Queen Elizabeth II joined senior politicians and heads of the arme Read More

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  Big Ben Is On Twitter

  By Erin Green | Mon Nov 9, 2009 8:36 PM ET

  know. It's Christmas come early for you. You are so excited. You've been waiting all these long months to find out exactly what Big Ben is doing these days at his perch on the Thames. (Are we feeling the sarcasm yet, anyone?) But what on Earth could this Twitter feed say? Click on through, my tweetin Read More

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  Get Thee to an Eco-nunnery

  By David Bois | Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  future, and we're rejoicing in God's creation. We want to give back to creation what we have received." Photo courtesy of keepwaddling1, via Flick Read More

  More like this in: Solar Energy, The Guardian, Ecology, Sustainable Design, Nuns, Technology, Science, Europe, Green Tech, Energy, Environment
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  Winning the Battle of Bosworth

  By Courtney Rubin | Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:29 PM ET

  Archeologists say they've found the actual location of the famous battle that marked the end of the War of the Roses. Read More

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  Blowin' in the Wind

  By Courtney Rubin | Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:08 PM ET

  production, the UK now has four gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity from wind. That’s enough electricity to power 2.3 million homes — half of England, or the whole of Scotland. What’s more, it saves six million tons of coal a year — and puts the UK squarely on track to hit its gree Read More

  More like this in: Energy, London, Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Scotland, Green Energy, Wind Farms, Nuclear Power
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  If You Bring It, We'll Cook It

  By Courtney Rubin | Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:59 PM ET

  so."The restaurant’s name for the project? The Harvest Swap Shop.Sounds like a pretty good deal to us. Photo courtesy Downing Street vi Read More

  More like this in: London, Shopping, Restaurants, Restaurant, Garden, World, Travel, Europe, Food & Drink, Leisure Travel
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  Sinking the Titanic

  By Courtney Rubin | Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:09 PM ET

  of a North Sea oil platform. It took 15 years and more than four million matches to build.Now Reynolds – a former oil rig worker from Southampton, England – has been awarded a Guinness World Record for his -- pardon the pun -- unmatched efforts with matchsticks."It just started as a bit of Read More

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  Manchester United Footballer Traces Roots And Returns To Volunteer

  By Wynter Mitchell | Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  in the culture? While checking out The Sun the other day, I was intrigued by a story about a young chap who's using his heroic reputation as one of England's premier footballers to help those facing a bigger challenge than what he and his team face. Called "The David Beckham before Davi Read More

  More like this in: David Beckham, UNICEF, Africa, AIDS, Football, Race, Sierra Leone
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  Sugar Your Wounds

  By Courtney Rubin | Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:43 PM ET

  nurse Moses Murandu, 43, grew up in Zimbabwe watching his father put crushed sugar cane on villagers’ wounds. He was surprised when he arrived in England’s Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham to find the cure wasn’t administered there.So Murandu conducted a six-month study involving 2 Read More

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