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...Beijing and over 50,000 Chinese emigrants composing the largest non-European community living in Ireland, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of heritage across borders. Patrick, sainted for ridding the isle of its snakes among other feats of faith, was himself an emigrant to Ireland from Roman Britain...
Messier also advised Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and the New York City-based private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in their $5 billion purchase of electrical equipment distributor Rexel, and he counseled computer-services company Unilog in its $1.1 billion sale to Britain's Logica. Other clients include French heavyweights Lagardère, PPR and Schneider Electric...
...London tabloids liked to call Francis Pym the "thorn in Margaret Thatcher's side"--a politely British way of saying he was detested by the then Prime Minister. In 1979 Thatcher appointed him Defense Secretary, and he became Foreign Secretary during the Falklands war. Pym worked closely with Britain's U.S. and European allies, and was for a time her likeliest potential challenger. But his private battles with Thatcher over his criticism of her economic policies exploded in 1983, when he publicly said he hoped the Tories would not win the election by an overwhelming majority. Thatcher fired...
...night of Sept. 22, 1943, Pearl Cornioley--now hailed as one of Britain's greatest wartime secret agents--parachuted into France after a few months of training with Britain's Special Operations Executive, a group that welcomed women as potentially less suspect than men. Once there, Cornioley posed as a cosmetics saleswoman and helped arm and organize the Resistance. She commanded soldiers who damaged German communications and presided over the surrender of 18,000 German troops. Nominated for a Military Cross medal after the war, she could not receive it because she was female. She later won honors, including...
...barometer of contemporary celebrity - in 2007, Google's Top Ten Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January...