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I missed 5 out of 20........!! not such a hot score! .....but it's a fun test to take......."back down Memory Lane!"History Exam... Everyone over 50 should have a pretty easy time at this exam. If you are under 50 you can claim a handicap. This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life. Get paper and pencil and number from 1 to 20. Write the letter of each answer and score at the end. Then, best of all, before you pass this test on, put your...

CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush spelled out in greater detail Thursday the pay raise that takes effect Jan. 1 for federal workers, members of Congress, judges - even Vice President Dick Cheney. Congress passed the pay raises earlier this year, but Bush was required to sign an executive order detailing the pay hikes before the end of the year. He did so Thursday. The president's annual salary of $400,000 is not affected by the legislation. The cost-of-living raise lifts salaries for members of the House and Senate from $158,000 this year to $162,100 in 2005. The measure provides civil servants...

We're getting close to Election Day 2004 and the Kerry campaign is feeling the stress. Even with 90% of the media acting like an arm of the Kerry campaign, Kerry is still losing. Of course, Kerry's neighbor (at one of his mansions), a fellow named George Soros, got himself into the act by contributing about $18-million to the socialist committees of darkness in the background. The dark side thought they could use the money to defeat Bush this year by being extremely negative. Silly Soros, all he did was make a few political pikers rich. Oh, and it went far...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With little debate, House lawmakers on Tuesday included themselves as part of a pay raise that all federal employees will receive next year. The cost-of-living raise would be the sixth straight for members of the House and Senate, boosting the salaries of lawmakers, now $158,100, by about $4,000 in the new calendar year. The civil servant COLA is part of an $89.9 billion Transportation and Treasury Department spending bill that the House is expected to pass Wednesday. The Senate has yet to take up the legislation. The measure stipulates that civil servants get raises of 3.5 percent,...

Virgin Cola is giving it a go in America once again. But this time, the British brand's invasion wasn't led by an army tank. Virgin Cola just became available in limited distribution in Southern California. A national rollout is planned for next year. Some people still remember the first time Virgin Cola reached American stores. It was six years ago, heralded by publicity-seeking British billionaire Richard Branson of Virgin Group. For the launch, he rode into New York's Times Square atop a tank, promising a battle with Coke and Pepsi. Virgin Cola was a flop and disappeared from the U.S....

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - McDonald's Corp., the No .1 fast-food chain that's been on a mission to its revamp its image, said it will offer Coca-Cola's new low-carb "C2" cola in a limited number of its restaurants. Oak Brook- Ill.-based McDonald's (MCD: Research, Estimates), announced late Thursday that the company is sampling C2 in about 27 restaurants in five markets, including Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Orlando. "We're responding again to what our consumers are telling us they want," Don Knauss, McDonald's chief operating officer of its North America division, said in a statement.

Suspicious device found on America West plane in Phoenix (Phoenix-AP) -- An America West Airlines flight from Phoenix to Reagan National in Washington was aborted today after a passenger spotted a suspicious device in a seat-back. Sky Harbor airport spokeswoman Deborah Ostreicher says it turns out it was an M-P-Three player, used to play music, and it had been wrapped around a soda can. It was found in a seat-back by a passenger as Flight 44 was taxiing out to the runway for takeoff. But before it was determined what had been found, the pilot taxied to the airport's cargo...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal probe of Coca-Cola Co. has intensified as a federal grand jury was scheduled and regulators subpoenaed employees, The Wall Street Journal said on Monday. The grand jury will begin to hear testimony in the case around May 25, the Journal said, citing people familiar with the probe. The U.S. attorney's office and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining whether Coca-Cola overshipped drink concentrate to distributors in some markets including Japan -- called "channel-stuffing" -- thereby possibly inflating financial results. Three former finance officials of the world's largest soft drink maker have told federal...

BAGHDAD — In a roadside soup and kebab house an hour past the Jordanian border, one of Douglas Feith's best and brightest from the Department of Defense's Office of Special Plans, a separate Pentagon intelligence agency with a focus on Iraq, squints at the Arabic script on his Pepsi can. The origin of a cola product, he explains, is a useful metric for judging which of Iraq's neighbors has the most influence in the country. He reasons that the stream of commerce brings in much more than Pepsi, but also ideas, attitudes, and, he archly notes, imams and ayatollahs. The...

Report: Pepsi signs distributor agreement with Iraqi soft drink company Despite the popular boycott of US-made products in the Middle East, American soft drink major Pepsico has signed an agreement with Baghdad Soft Drinks to relaunch its cola in Iraq, reported the Wall Street Journal. Baghdad Soft Drinks was Pepsi’s distributor in Iraq prior to 1990, before the Arab state was constrained by UN economic sanctions. Pepsi will begin shipping its cola beverage and new glass bottles to Iraq with the next few months, the newspaper said. The Middle East is one of the few markets where Pepsi enjoys...

The House on Thursday approved a 2.2 percent pay raise for Congress — slightly less than average wage increases in private business but enough to boost lawmakers' annual salaries to about $158,000 next year. The House members decided to allow themselves a fifth straight cost-of-living raise after rejecting them for several years during the 1990s. Their annual pay has risen from $136,700 in 1999 to about $158,000 in 2004, if the legislation clears Congress and is signed by the president. Their salary this year is $154,700. As in past years, the congressional COLA was automatically included as part of pay...

Indian Consumer Group Warns Cola Giants of Legal Action Kalyani, OneWorld South Asia NEW DELHI, August 15 (OneWorld) - An Indian consumer rights body Friday threatened to take soft-drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to a consumer court if the multi-national corporations (MNCs) failed to answer queries about safety levels in their products. The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS), one of the leading consumer rights groups in India, has urged Pepsi and Coke to answer consumer queries regarding allegations that their popular drinks contain pesticides. The CUTS statement follows a report last week by an Indian non-governmental organization (NGO),...

NEW DELHI - As tempers rose and bottles continued to be smashed on Friday, the Indian government ordered two state-run laboratories to verify whether US cola giants Pepsi and Coca-Cola are selling pesticide-laced soft drinks in India. The Indian health ministry sent bottles of soft drinks manufactured by the two multinationals to the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Mysore and the Central Food Laboratory in Calcutta. Indian Health Minister Sushma Swaraj told reporters: 'Our tests will be done in independent labs and we will take action only after examining the results. The results are expected next week.' How the...

turkey: Cola war erupts as Turkey sizzlesThe new ‘Cola Turka’ is challenging Coca-Cola in the wake of growing Turkish anger against the US Everyone is drinking it, everyone is speaking of it -- the new ‘Cola Turka’ launched in the midst of Turkey’s sizzling summer has been an overnight success with some suggesting that a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Washington has helped the new cola take on its better-known US rivals. “We didn’t choose to take advantage of the political situation”, says Eda Gokkan, in charge of the new soda’s advertising campaign at Young and Rubicam. “We’re just trying...

Hollywood actors often appear in foreign commercials, but the spot featuring Mr. Chase has the unusual twist of promoting a local cola brand, Cola Turka, over its American rivals at a politically charged moment. Attempts to reach Mr. Chase or his agent for comment were unsuccessful on Friday. 'Drinking America' "You are drinking America, you are not drinking a soda," said Serdar Erener, referring to the U.S. cola giants Coke and Pepsi. Mr. Erener is the CEO and creative director of WPP Group's Young & Rubicam, Istanbul, the advertising agency that created the spots. Mr. Erener said the brand's launch...

Chevy Chase stars in Turkish commercial Canadian Press Friday, July 18, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT ANKARA -- Turks brighten when they see a commercial showing Turkish flags flying in Manhattan and U.S. comic Chevy Chase acting and even talking like a Turkish macho man as he sips a new Turkish brand of cola. Turkish food and beverage manufacturer Ulker is cashing in on anti-American sentiment in the wake of the Iraq war, with Cola Turka - just as Qibla Cola in Britain, Mecca Cola in France and Zam Zam Cola in Iran were marketed as political statements against what some perceive is...

Mecca Cola gives taste for anti-Americanism By Philip Delves Broughton in Paris (Filed: 01/01/2003) Mecca Cola's red and white label, its fizz and dark, sweet taste make it startlingly similar to Coke. But Mecca Cola is far from the Real Thing. It is, said its creator, a "rejection of American politics, imperialism and hegemony and a protest against the Zionist crime financed and supported by America". Two million bottles have been sold since it was launched two months ago in France and orders are pouring in from around the world. "I got faxes last night from China and Australia and...

MANAMA, May 21 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Iran's version of Coke has hit the shelves of Bahrain's supermarkets as residents of the Gulf kingdom increasingly express their frustration at U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by boycotting American products. Iran has replaced U.S. products with “Zamzam-Cola” "There is growing demand for substitutes to American soft drinks, which is what prompted us to import Zamzam-Cola," Iran's alternative to Coca-Cola and Pepsi, said an executive at the Bahraini-owned "Zamzam Soft Drink Drops". "Consumers' response has been as good as anticipated," said the executive, who requested anonymity. The Iranian beverage takes its...