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...your U.S. passport and book three nights, and you'll get 20% off room rates, a bottle of cava (that's Spanish champagne) and strawberries in the room, 50% off dinner for two at the hotel's Midnight Rose restaurant, and complimentary breakfast. Offer extended though March 2009. Plaza de Santa Ana 14, Madrid, Spain...
Israel continued to pound targets in Gaza from the air on Monday even as it made final preparations for a ground assault. The Israeli military offensive began on Dec. 27, after the lapse of a six-month-long de facto cease-fire between Israel and the government of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Israel says its operation will continue until Hamas stops firing rockets at Israeli towns along the border with Gaza. Hamas wants an end to the economic chokehold Israel has applied to the crowded Mediterranean territory...
...planning the trip to Southern France he gave his wife for her 30th birthday - making sure it retained all the elements of a gift, while being enjoyable for him too. So, after putting her through an arduous hike up a steep cliff from the Riviera town of Eze-Bord-de-Mer (his idea of fun), he made sure there was a birthday cake waiting for her at the ritzy Chevre d'Or restaurant in the village at the top (everyone's idea...
...Catholic Church overhauls its liturgical calendar by de-sainting over 200 people and making the celebration of 92 others, including St. Nicholas, optional...
With odds of winning money as low as one in three, the lottery has continued to thrive since its inception during the Spanish War of Independence. Cortes de Cadiz, the country's legislative body, introduced the game in 1812 in order to increase state income and held the very first drawing on March 4 that year. Other lotteries had existed in the country since 1763, when King Carlos III began using them to finance Spain's side in the Napoleonic War, among other ventures. It was he who first began the tradition of having orphan boys draw the winning numbers...