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Dan Jones: A London with no mice? You’re taking the mickey

Edit London Evening Standard 13 Mar 2015
The other day as I was making lunch a mouse ran out from behind the bread bin. I suspect he had been trying to get at the croissants. As he scuttled along the worktop I tried to batter him with the frying pan but he was too quick ... Then he leapt to the floor, ran under the fridge and vanished. My children were delighted ... Richard does not say if he learned this by visiting Magnum Otium, or whatever the crabshack à la mode was in the 1190s ... ....

Exhibition of Shrewsbury’s history wows theatre visitors (Shropshire Council)

Edit noodls 05 Mar 2015
(Source. Shropshire Council) / PermalinkRelated topics. Community / Education / Leisure. An exhibition which traces the history of Shrewsbury has been wowing visitors to Theatre Severn's FBC Manby Bowdler Gallery. The 'Charting History' exhibition traces the history of the ancient Shrewsbury Borough through documents dating from the 1190s to 1830s ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Bram Stoker a hero for struggling corner of Romania

Edit The Irish Times 01 Jul 2014
The medieval town of Sighisoara in the heart of Transylvania is breathtakingly beautiful ... Best known for allegedly impaling 30,000 enemy Turks in the 1450s, Vlad is regarded as a hero in modern Romania ... Cities such as Brasov, Sibiu and Cluj and a number of fortified villages are a testament to a now vanished group of people, known in Romania as the Saxons, who inhabited the region from the 1190s up to recent times ... ....

12 natural and cultural wonders worth seeing

Edit CNN 13 Jun 2014
June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1228 GMT (2028 HKT). The World Heritage List now includes 981 sites all over the world. The first version of the list in 1978 included just 12, including L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park in Canada ... Quito's Plaza Grande square is shown here ... St ... Mesa Verde National Park's stone and adobe cliff dwellings in Colorado were built by Ancestral Puebloans from the 1190s to the late 1270s ... HIDE CAPTION ... << ... 1 ... ....

Faculty Essay: The Narrows of Life (Roosevelt University)

Edit noodls 22 May 2014
(Source. Roosevelt University). By Stuart D. Warner, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Montesquieu Forum at Roosevelt University. I remember. I was 12 years old and in Maimonides Hospital ... It was in the early evening when my parents came to visit ... and it plagued me ... 1190s), a work written under the influence of Plato, Aristotle, and Al-Farabi, is not only aptly named, but might prove helpful to us ... (noodl....

17 Ways the '90s Were Plagued With Awesomeness

Edit Mashable 13 May 2014
The Middle Ages weren't all about the Black Plague and the Crusades. In fact, the Middle Ages — specifically the High of the Mediaeval times — were also an amazing time to be alive. Just imagine how rad life would be in the '90s — the 1190s, that is. Kings and damsels, court feasts, and some of the greatest poetry of the Western world are all part of one of the greatest periods in history. See also ... 1 ... Image. Tumblr filmsinmotion. 2 ... Image ... 3....

Best places to experience Native American culture

Edit CNN 15 Apr 2014
April 15, 2014 -- Updated 0554 GMT (1354 HKT). The Denver Museum puts on the Friendship Powwow and American Indian Cultural Celebration (pictured), which celebrates its 25th year in September 2014. There are American Indian dancers, drum groups and artists. The Indian taco with shredded bison is a favorite at Tocabe ... The park's stone and adobe cliff dwellings were built by Ancestral Puebloans from the 1190s to the late 1270s ... << ... 1 ... ....

The royal secret

Edit Deccan Herald 07 Apr 2014
The long run of unusually good conditions meant abundant grasses and a huge increase in herds of livestock and war horses that became the basis of Mongol power – a marked contrast to the long and exceptionally severe droughts that gripped the region during the 1180s and 1190s, causing unrest and division ... years of the 1180s and 1190s.&nbsp;....
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