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  • Mystery Solved: The Most Expensive Champagne in the World Sold in an Auction was Purchased by Buyan

    06/23/2011 12:30:19 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    RedOrbit ^ | aturday, 18 June 2011
    Mystery Solved: The Most Expensive Champagne in the World Sold in an Auction was Purchased by Buyan, Singapore's Premier Russian RestaurantHistory was made when Buyan Russian Haute Cuisine & Caviar Bar located in the Republic of Singapore, won the world’s most expensive Champagne in a fierce bidding war. Buyan, which offers both inexpensive traditional Russian fare as well as Russian haute cuisine meant for the Tsars, has paid €30,000 (SGD43,630) for a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, which is believed to be 170 years old. Singapore (PRWEB) June 17, 2011 History was made when Buyan Russian Haute Cuisine & Caviar Bar...
  • Åland vs EU: David Confronts Goliath

    02/16/2006 2:27:02 PM PST · by Anne_Conn · 2 replies · 328+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | Thursday, February 16, 2006 | Paul Belien
    Last week Chresten Anderson wrote a piece on this website about the tiny island of Åland (actually a group of islands, as one of our readers pointed out) that is rebelling against the European moloch in Brussels. The Daily Telegraph sent its Brussels correspondent David Rennie to Mariehamn, Åland’s capital.
  • Tiny island that's ready to stop Europe in its tracks

    02/15/2006 1:42:31 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 58 replies · 2,394+ views
    Daily Telegraph ^ | February 15, 2006 | David Rennie
    In the decade since they voted to join the European Union the islanders of the Aland archipelago in the Baltic Sea have been outvoted and overruled by Brussels, time and again.Now Aland, a unique, autonomous region of Finland, is about to teach Brussels a lesson in democracy it may never forget. Shopkeeper Alf-Erik, in Aland, a revolt by islanders has been brewing for some time Thanks to a quirk of early 20th-century history, Aland's 26,000 people are essentially sovereign co-rulers of their home nation of Finland. As such, they can veto any international treaty that Finland wants to enter, including...
  • Westcott and Hort part 3

    03/01/2003 1:11:00 PM PST · by Commander8 · 7 replies · 300+ views
    An Understandable History of The Bible ^ | 1987 | Dr. Samuel C Gipp Th.D
    Westcott's Peace-Movement No true Christian loves war. A Bible believer takes the premillenial view and realizes that war is caused by the sinful nature of mankind-James 4:1. He understands that this will all be changed at Christ's return-Philippians 3:21.
  • The Witnesses

    02/26/2003 7:11:12 PM PST · by Commander8 · 1 replies · 275+ views
    An Understandable History of The Bible ^ | 1987 | Dr. Samuel C Gipp Th.D
    It would be extremely beneficial at this point if we could simply produce the original autographs for examination. This would greatly simplify the operation of establishing correctly the New Testament Text. But this simply cannot happen. It has long been acknowledged by scholars that we no longer have the "originals." They have long since passed from the scene. This is due to the fact that scribes were known to destroy worn out MSS after they had copied them. Apparently the church valued the WORDS of the original more than the original itself. Therefore, the readings of the originals must be...