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...like Sammy Miller were staunch supporters. In the '90s, under the threat of financial demise, Belstaff was saved by Italian racer, motorcycle designer and fan of the brand Franco Malenotti. Economic concerns eventually forced the company to relocate to Italy, but loyalist Malenotti, by transplanting the factory boss from Britain and continuing to use English materials, has ensured that the label's craftsmanship and quality continue to ride...
...figured that out: aside from its pay-what-you-want download offer, the band flogged a special-edition box set of In Rainbows for $80 a piece. And a repackaged, "deluxe" version of Back To Black, bundling Winehouse's 2006 album with bonus tracks, shot to the top of Britain's album charts just this month...
...Hildreth, an expert in missile defense for the Congressional Research Service, addressing the same hearing of the House government reform committee's national-security panel, emphasized the epic technological challenge involved in building a nuclear-tipped, ocean-spanning missile. In the past half-century, only five nations - the U.S., Britain, China, France and Russia - have managed to successfully develop, and then integrate, the requisite propulsion, guidance, reentry and warhead systems. "The long history of ICBMs demonstrates that such success took considerable resources in time, funding, knowledge, infrastructure, organization and national commitment," Hildreth said. "It's this aspect of it that...
...English Heritage, which manages the site, sees the situation as intolerable. But a much-anticipated solution recently collapsed when Britain's Department for Transport decided it was too expensive. English Heritage had proposed rerouting a 1.3-mile-long stretch of the A303 into a tunnel, rerouting the A344 well away from the circle, and building a $134 million state-of-the-art visitors center in the town of Amesbury, two miles away, linked by train to within walking distance of the stones. But in the eight years it took to win planning approval for the scheme, the cost...
...know, knowing what I know now about Patrick, I think that he wouldn’t approve,’” McKenna said. Saint Patrick has been considered the patron saint of Ireland since as early as the 7th century. Born to a Roman family in Britain around 400 A.D., he was kidnapped, sold into slavery, and forced to herd sheep in Northwest Ireland at age 16, according to legend. He then experienced angelic visitations that empowered him to escape slavery and guided him to safety. Patrick eventually returned home, but continued to hear angels and the voice...