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Over the years, Kiwi has been owned by a variety of corporations. For the first six decades of its existence, it was part of iterations of an Australian corporation with Kiwi in its name, all based in the state of Victoria, including Kiwi Boot Polish Co. (1913–1916) and Kiwi Polish Co. (1916–1971). The company then joined with Nicholas International Ltd, a Melbourne based pharmaceutical company producing international brands such as Aspro and Rennie. The new company was renamed Nicholas Kiwi. In 1984 it was acquired by American-based Sara Lee (at the time known as Consolidated Foods Corporation) who eventually sold...

Revisiting 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' by the Band. Any opinions? I think James Gleason nailed it in his Rolling Stone Review: Nothing I have read … has brought home the overwhelming human sense of history that this song does. The only thing I can relate it to at all is The Red Badge of Courage. It's a remarkable song, the rhythmic structure, the voice of Levon and the bass line with the drum accents and then the heavy close harmony of Levon, Richard and Rick in the theme, make it seem impossible that this isn't some traditional...

I had an interesting conversation with friends, and was inspired to ask my Friends for their comments... I first chose an American classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPLQpLAxc4 ~ Nat King Cole ~ Stardust! I then chose the Irish Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Irish Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Holy God We praise Thy Name(3:36) Finally, I decided on a blues classic: (1975 Dublin) Thin Lizzy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261uidoVOVk

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(please note, this article is NOT from the Onion) Early in February, the satirical news publication The Onion published a story about Elon Musk, titled, “Elon Musk Offering $1.2 Billion in Grants to Any Project That Promises to Make Him Feel Complete.” (please see the full article, at the link)

3 lessons the forthcoming miniseries can learn from the failed 2007 film His Dark Materials, the celebrated fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, is getting a second chance to do a screen adaptation right. Deadline reports that the BBC is producing a big-budget TV miniseries adaptation of the first volume of the trilogy, The Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in the US). The BBC has certainly poured some money into the talent pool, with boldface names galore already signed on to the project, according to Deadline: Tom Hooper, of Les Misérables and The King’s Speech, will direct, Logan breakout Dafne...

Right to its bitter end, there is no escaping “Rosemary’s Baby.” On film Ira Levin’s best selling novel is as horribly frightening as it was on paper. Few people could put Levin’s book down. By the same token, viewers of the movie at the Criterion and Loew’s Tower East Theatres will find themselves compelled to see it through. It is that tantalizing a shocker. The subject matter is peculiarly repugnant. It is witchcraft, not as practiced in Salem or the like, but as taken seriously in our very own city. The setting is an apartment house modeled after those venerable...

What Elementary School Did You Go To?You don't have to mention the name.Mine was a Catholic School,1st Grade through 8th Grade,learned a lot,those Nuns where tuff;)

I like her. She's a badass. She's not someone to mess with. I wish she was Speaker of the House. More things would have gotten done in Washington. Ryan has no spine. Mcconnell has no spine. Coryn has no spine. I saw her CPAC 2018 speech. I like her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4glpsLOl-s

Hundreds of assault rifles, shotguns, and pistols, along with hand grenades and 100 kilos of ammunition, have been confiscated from a sports shop owner in the northern French port town of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Customs officials displayed the arsenal on a video on Youtube that shows line after line of the weapons seized. The man was stopped by officials in a post office in Boulogne as he was trying to send a package to the Netherlands that was found to contain a rifle. When customs officers searched his vehicle, they found a handgun and bullets. They then proceeded to his home, accompanied...

Altered Carbon 1-houe 2018 Sci-Fi Netflix Streaming Series Set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored, a prisoner returns to life in a new body and must solve a mind-bending murder to win his freedom. Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs Martha Higareda as Kristin Ortega Antonio Marziale as Isaac Bancroft Kristin Lehman as Miriam Bancroft Chris Conner as Poe Dichen Lachman as Reileen Kawahara

Gross. Rep. Joe Kennedy delivered the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union Address to a mostly white audience tonight in Massachusetts. The young Kennedy gave a passionate response to President Trump’s magnificent speech on Capitol Hill tonight.The poor guy got a little too excited and started slobbering down his face. Somebody needed to bring him a napkin.

DAMN. Kendrick Lamar opened the 2018 GRAMMYs with a powerful and political performance of his hit, "XXX.'" The rapper featured an army of face-covered soldiers marching in the background of an American flag, that quickly turned into a "satire" taking a jab at the current political climate in the United States. Bono joined the rapper for their duet of "XXX" and in the middle of Kendrick's rap, the camera quickly turned off to the side of the stage where Dave Chappelle delivered a powerful statement, telling viewers, "I just wanted to remind the audience that the only thing more frightening...

A man was spotted with a cat on the hood of his SUV earlier this week, and people who saw it thought it was not only weird but perhaps it was a case of animal cruelty. But the owner of the cat, Jesse Dorsett Jr., said his three felines, Pixie, Dixie and Mister Jinks, love going for rides.

FRiends, I'm hoping that someone can replace Giorgio A. Tsoukalos' with Chuck Schumer (reading glasses and all) to create the new, "Aliens Guy" meme updated for the shutdown news cycle.

ROUND 2 of the greatest hits of the '70s begins! Due date: Sunday, Jan 28 @6:00 pm (Eastern) This Round takes the top 6 songs of each year of the '70s per BILLBOARD, and pairs them in brackets along with the best 4 #7s as voted in Round 1.

Is Trump secretly Goku?

This is the closing song on the album "The Road to Freedom" by "L. Ron Hubbard and Friends" from 1986.

1. A bat and a ball cost £1.10 in total. The bat costs £1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? 2. If it takes five machines five minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? 3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?