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<description><![CDATA[Russell Shortt is a Personal Travel Consultant with Exploring Ireland - the leading specialists in customized, private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and independent self drive tours of Ireland.]]></description>
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<title>Review - Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004)</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:30:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Proof. These were no Kentucky Fried Strokes. You only get a year to write your sophomore, at thirteen songs in under forty minutes, it seems the Kings took a week-end knocking out a great record. It grabs you by the cojones and never, ever lets up, thankfully it measures well under the hour. Oh it's filthy! Genet filthy! All knowing but unforgiving. The opener Slow Nights, So Long, swamp rocks the mop tops I Saw Her Standing There, she's seventeen, wasted and he hates her face but what the hell?]]></description>
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<title>Public Enemy Number One - John Dillinger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[You write an article on John Dillinger and you immediately fall into glorification of a villain, it's inevitable. His life was overly dramatic, the stuff of movies, the stuff that James Cagney was thrilling audiences across America in movies like The Public Enemy (1931) and G-Men (1935). ]]></description>
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<title>Review, Kings of Leon, Only by the Night (2008)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:46:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For a start it's mellower, a lot mellower; hard to believe that it's only being five years since Youth and Young Manhood, my how we've all aged...Caleb is becoming world weary and he's lugging us all down with him, like Van Morrison, it's all about him but involves us and it's maddeningly difficult to reach the core of what he's indicating but it's important and we need to know.]]></description>
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<title>Review - Kings of Leon, Because of the Times (2007)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:43:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Expectation was high, very high - this was their moment, could they shake the detractors? Still the column inches built up explaining and re-explaining the Pentecostal preacher pa called Leon and the itinerant wanderings around the Mississippi Delta - I mean come on! Enough is enough!]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Indian Vegetarian Aloo Gobi</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:42:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a great dish, very nutritious, in no way fattening, simple to make and cheap too! Anyone for the perfect meal then?  You will require the following ingredients. ]]></description>
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<title>The Reality of Pete Doherty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When I first heard The Libertines' Up the Bracket in late 2002. I was blown away, I told anybody who would care to listen, very few did. I thought I was losing touch because I reckoned this album was the savior of music, the only show in town since the final flames of Britpop were quenched, in many ways The Libertines were the one's dousing that once mighty inferno.]]></description>
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<title>The Wizardry of Harry Houdini</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Harry Houdini never escapes the public's consciousness, he remains the ultimate wizard, surviving even the modernists with their camera tricks, suave technologies and massive exposures. Old Harry is still viewed by most as the main man. He was born, Ehrich Weiss in Budapest, Hungary in 1874, migrating with his parents at the age of four.]]></description>
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<title>What is a Macrobiotic Diet?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It sounds a modern fad but macrobiotics is no passing trend, it was first mentioned in the writings of Hippocrates almost two and a half thousand years ago. He used the word macrobiotics to describe people who were healthy and lived long, indeed the word itself comes from the Greek for great life, macros equaling great and bios equaling life.]]></description>
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<title>Robert F Kennedy - The People's Politican</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert F Kennedy's speech, On the Mindless Menace of Violence, delivered on the night of 5 April, 1968 in the City Club in Cleveland, Ohio is truly a magnificent piece of rhetoric. Conveyed in the attractive, thick Boston accent with broad A's and non-existent R's; his voice remains steady, but with difficulty, suppressing the passion, fury and zeal that bubbles underneath. He was a man of his generation, emanating the spirit of the sixties, he embodied the Baby Boomer's hopes - cessation of the Vietnam War, avocation of civil rights, tackling the establishment and ridding society of the ills of violence and poverty.]]></description>
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<title>New York Dolls - First Time Around</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:35:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They didn't age well, however recently they have being experiencing something of a renaissance. Their circus never fitted well with many, dismissing them as a band of freaks with nothing much going on underneath the smeared lipstick, knee boots, high heels and mini skirts. This is simply not to know your music, the Dolls are the source of so, so much that came after them. ]]></description>
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<title>Review - Kings of Leon, Youth and Young Manhood (2003)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:32:16 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kings of Leon - the darlings of a media starved of any gun-slingers, sons of a preacher man, infant drifters across the Delta Blues, grizzled but pretty, sticky fingers but sweet cheekbones, nicked from Nashville and placed in pop. Are they ours? Or are they their own? Hard to tell, hard to tell. I really got to liking them, although I haven't really the foggiest what Caleb is warbling on about. Sounds good though don't it. Don't believe the hype, they weren't always like this, they didn't simply emerge shaggy and whistling Dixie, they evolved, don't we all?]]></description>
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<title>How to Make the Perfect Falafel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh falafel! You can't beat a good falafel, so tasty, so filling and so good for you! Try out this simple recipe but be warned falafels are very, very addictive! Throughout the Middle East you can gorge on falafel, from the street sellers to the best restaurants, you can sample countless variations, each one claiming to be the perfect falafel. The actual falafel is a fried ball made from spiced chickpeas and or/fava beans, they are usually served in pitta bread called lafa, topped with salads, vegetables and sauces.]]></description>
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<title>Tell Me About Sparta</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sparta holds a unique fascination for Western culture, we live by the ideals of Athens but we aspire to the austerity and discipline of Sparta. One of the most enduring symbols of heroism is the final stand of the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae against the million Persians of Xerxes. Their habits and way of life have become legendary, the method of transforming their men into killing machines has being admired and lauded by many societies.]]></description>
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<title>Alexander the Great</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:29:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alexander the Great, the moniker says it all really, doesn't it? On the day he was born in July 356 BCE, Herostratus burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Herostratus did so for no better reason than to become forever known, hence the Ephesians ordered that his name never be mentioned, Strabo however marked it down and so we know of Herostratic fame. But only barely, more importantly, the night it burned, Alexander the Great came into the world.]]></description>
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<title>It Was Grand When it Left Belfast! What Exactly Sank the Titanic?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:35:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They said she was unsinkable, they said that she was the greatest ship to have ever sailed. Yet, she never even completed her maiden voyage, floundering in the icy waters of the Atlantic, four hundred miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.]]></description>
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<title>The Man Who Wrote the Indian and Bangladeshi National Anthems</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:35:25 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The man is Rabindranath Tagore, the man who linked West and East. But like so many that went before him, and indeed many that came after him, he may very well have being completely overlooked by the Western world.]]></description>
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<title>How a Dozen of the Most Curious Sounding American States Got Their Name</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:56:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve of the Most Curious Sounding American States and How They Got Their Names. Illinois - French explorers derived the name from Illini, an Algonquin Indian meaning, 'tribe of superior men'.  ]]></description>
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<title>The Genius of Cezanne</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:55:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Both Matisse and Picasso thought of him as their Daddy, therefore Cezanne must really be something, if those two big cheeses cite the dude as an influence then the dude is a MAJOR influence, given that they more or less thought that everybody else was pretty hopeless.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make Indian Vegetarian Biryani</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Indian vegetable Biryani is quite the tasty dish, massively popular in Indian restaurants, here's how to make your own, so you can gorge yourself nightly and not have to stomp into the town, it's quite cheaper too.  You will need the following ingredients which are all fairly easy to acquire:]]></description>
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<title>So Where Does Salvador Dali Fit Into the Pantheon of Art?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:29:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Old Avida Dollars, his place in the artist's pantheon is not immediately evident, indeed there are some critics who maintain that he has no place at all. That analysis seems a tad harsh, but yet it does prevail, perhaps Dali's craving for stirring the waters gets in the way of what I believe is an undeniable contribution to the world of art.]]></description>
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<title>So Who is This Guy Called Hannibal? The Man Who Nearly Took Down Rome</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hannibal is for many people the only thing of Carthage that people are familiar with, for most the great city state of Carthage is completely unknown, it is forgotten, lost in the mists of time. By the time of Hannibal's birth, Carthage had fallen on hard times. They had been defeated in the First Punic War against the Roman Republic.]]></description>
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<title>Cleopatra - The Last Egyptian Pharaoh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cleopatra! What a life! What a woman! What a nose! Like all the greats, she is known to one and all simply by the one name. Her's was a life that was set to dominate world events in the most dramatic of fashions. I blame the parents, from the day she graced the world with her presence, she was informed that she was a goddess, she believed herself to be divine. There were going to be stormy waters ahead. She was the first of the great Divas, her modern sisters Beyonce, Britney and Mariah pale in comparison.]]></description>
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<title>Homo Sapien Vs Neanderthal</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:50:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world used to be a tad more interesting, more like Return of the Jedi than the strait-laced globe that we now inhabit where we are all the same. One hundred thousand years ago, a diverse group of hominids occupied Earth, however if you are reading this you are a Homo Sapien, the only ones that survived to the present day. The dominant theory of human movement is that there were two big advances that dispersed humans across Eurasia.]]></description>
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<title>Geronimo! The Last of the Apache</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:44:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Geronimo! The most famous Indian of them all, bizarrely his name is traditionally yelled when jumping from a plane and more than one horse has being called after him. Why is he so popular? Well, he was the leader of the last American Indian force to formally capitulate to the United States and then only following a prolonged struggle in which he time and again challenged the odds and won. He was hard beaten, he was molded by hellish acts perpetuated against him.]]></description>
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<title>The Rise of Benito Mussolini</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:29:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Named after the Mexican revolutionary Benito Juarez, Benito Mussolini was born in 1883 in the small town of Dovia di Predappio in northern Italy. Much of the man was molded while working the bellows in his father's forge, listening to his anarchist understanding of the world.]]></description>
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<title>Guajarati Vegetarian Potato Curry</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:28:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a very tasty recipe that my good friend Shetal eventually gave to me after dozens of meals and much hounding! It is from her home in Guajarati and is the finest potato curry I ever ate. It is a handy dish, which takes less than half an hour to cook and is simply oo-la-la! This version does for four but with a little tinkering you can make it for as many as you like or for as few as you like!]]></description>
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<title>Whatever Happened to the Poor Old Dodo?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:49:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The poor old Dodo, it is a symbol of how destructive us humans can be, how utterly obnoxious, vile and stupid we sometimes are. The Dodo waddled it's way around the glorious island of Mauritius for God knows how long, content and living the easy life. We know that it was a flightless bird, its stumpy wings been quite incapable of lifting its plump, ungainly little body; but this was a direct result of how easy its life was on the island.]]></description>
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<title>When Picasso Met Matisse</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:04:49 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I like Matisse, I mean I really like his paintings, so do many people, but not many as like Picasso, in fact not near as many, a fraction, a thin slice, everybody knows Picasso, he is the King of Art, Matisse dwells in the shadows, poor Matisse, if it means much, I for one prefer Matisse. Picasso grabs the headlines, his was a life of extremes in everything, he dominated and most were inhibited by him, he was The One, The maverick; whereas Matisse was immersed in the new movements of art, encouraging and helping, a teacher and so in the strangest of ways part of the system, Picasso never was, he was greater than the system.]]></description>
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<title>A Biography of General Robert E. Lee</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:05:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee is quite the quixotic character in American history, his should have being the brightest place in the sun, but he was a Johnny Reb and thus he dwells in the shadows of that great nation. He was one of it's greatest stars but although still an idol to many, he is perceived still as a dark star, a nemesis, an enemy of the state; it's harsh, for he was in many ways the essence of the old America, before he lost it all and was flung out of the hallowed halls.]]></description>
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<title>A Brief Outline of the American Civil War</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:02:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The American Civil War is the most defining event in American history. The twentieth century, the American century was molded by the carnage and devastation of the Civil War. It marked the end of slavery, the fading of the great Southern aristocratic families, the dawning of a new political and economic order and the beginning of big business and government.]]></description>
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<title>How to Make the Tasty Indian Vegetarian Dish - Aloo Palak</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:01:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I love this Indian vegetarian dish! It's easy to make, cheap and good for you! So, get doing it!]]></description>
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<title>A Biography of Ulysses S Grant</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:58:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ulysses S. Grant, he of the exalted name but humble background, whose earlier life provided no indication of the greatness that he would achieve. His were meek origins, the son of a leather tanner in Pleasant Point, Ohio; he was a withdrawn boy, short and skinny but with an unnatural ability with horses. His father lobbied their local US Congressman for an appointment to West Point, which was duly obtained, Grant attending in 1839. His time at West Point was an undistinguished one, he spurned academia, being only really content when he was mucking around with horses, he graduated anonymously in the middle of the class, failing to land the cavalry duty which he wanted.]]></description>
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<title>Dylan Thoms - Myth Or Man?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:47:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas has always being a man trapped between eras, very difficult to pin-down, far from easily definable, charmingly elusive. His origins are murky, perhaps not murky in fact but murky in attempting to ascertain his influences, in attempting to pinpoint where his Muses flock. By the age of four the young Dylan was supposed to be able to recite some Shakespeare that his father force fed him, this smacks of a fatherly blindness, perhaps bestowing the lofty ideals that had eluded him on his burgeoning alter ego.]]></description>
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<title>The Top Seven Irish Dishes Ever!</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:39:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recipes for Irish stew run the length of your arm, there are thousands upon thousands of variations. Each household has a specific way of making this fine dish and each counters that their mother's is the best. A simple rule of thumb is hock in what vegetables are lying around, just ensure you have lamb as your meat, none of this fancy beef business that some hostelries are offering up these days. A great filler on a chilly winter's day.]]></description>
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<title>Lord Byron - The Original Rock Star</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:32:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This latter affair with Annabella as Byron called her, was to have some longevity, in fact he married her and they had a daughter Augusta Ada, and with that they separated a month later. It was a strange relationship, mostly something of a mystery, they appeared very much in love but then split up very abruptly. There were financial woes, indeed creditors were coming a knocking and arrest seemed imminent. There also exists the lingering rumour that Byron had married to cover up an incestuous relationship he was conducting with his half-sister Augusta that had produced a child but this has never being confirmed. In any case...]]></description>
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<title>The Life and Times of John Keats</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 13:11:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[John Keats, I am not sure why but he has always struck me as being somewhat old, but of course he was never old, he died at the tender age of twenty-five. I don't know why I think that way, whether it be his worldly views or his whole of the moon visions or perhaps the way the legion of Romantics exalt him so. He was a Londoner, born in 1795 to a tavern owner, remarkably the tavern still stands, nowadays trading as Keats at the Globe.]]></description>
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<title>The Legend of James Dean</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:03:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[James Dean, strange you know the name before the man, indeed many film buffs I know never even seen the movies he made and many are startled on discovering that he only starred in three movies. Yet, everyone knows James Dean, his ubiquitous image charms us from all kinds of angles, you would have to live on the moon to not recognise his face, and indeed it appears that to know him is to be seduced by him. The enigma that he is though is still somewhat of a riddle, how can one man, no matter how attractive he is...]]></description>
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<title>The Life of Martin Luther</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 10:15:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther is the rarest of creatures, a man who knows his own mind, speaks it and refuses to be swayed. There is something so, so logical about the man and his life; he was baptised on the Feast of St. Martin of Tours, he fulfilled his father's wishes by enrolling in law school but he dropped out almost immediately as he viewed law as symbolising uncertainty, he entered the monastery because he had made a vow on the spur of the moment that he would become a monk if he was saved from a storm - something maddeningly logical...]]></description>
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<title>Seven Sacred Irish Tasks</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:08:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ireland is a land chock full of magic, superstitions, legends and cures. Here are seven of the best that you may stumble upon as you drift through the country. Some are terribly simple - once you can find them!]]></description>
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<title>The Life of Malcolm X</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925. His father, Earl Little was an outspoken Baptist preacher and an avid supporter of the Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. The young Malcolm was to be moulded by his father and the terrible oppression that was inflicted upon his family.]]></description>
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<title>The Life of Martin Luther King</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Interestingly, he was named after the original Martin Luther, the initiator of the Protestant Reformation.]]></description>
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<title>Seven of Ireland's Best Pubs  (From a List of Millions!)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:52:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[EJ Morrissey's, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois. The black doors of Morrissey's are a swirling time machine, you disappear inside to a bygone age. Scuttle into one of it's many warren like snugs and sink a few pints of the black stuff.]]></description>
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<title>Your Body is Made Up of Ten Trillion of Them! What Exactly is a Cell?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:52:41 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What is a cell? Good question! Mon Dieu a cell is a complex thing, unfathomable to the human mind, in fact unfathomable to the ten trillion cells that makes up the human body. What makes them all the more impossible to grasp is that they are not all the same, no far from it, there are hundreds of different types of cell. ]]></description>
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<title>How Come the Mighty Dinosaur Were Wiped Out by the KT Meteor, But the Lowly Toad Survived?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How come the mighty dinosaur were wiped out by the KT Meteor but the lowly toad survived?  Around sixty-five million years ago a meteor struck Earth with the almighty force of one hundred million megatons, obliterating the earth and wiping out seventy percent of the Earth's life. This apocalyptic event is termed the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction or more commonly the K-T Event.]]></description>
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<title>The Scariest Ghost of Them All - My Experiences With an Irish Banshee</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:35:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oh the Banshee, I could write a book on her or it or whatever it is. Growing up in Ireland, all children were petrified and if the truth be told a tiny bit attracted to the Banshee. It is said that she is a harbinger of doom, if her awful wails are heard, somebody in the house will die within the week, if she herself is seen the watcher themselves will die within the week.]]></description>
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<title>Ireland's Most Haunted Tourist Location</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:34:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You won't find St. Michan's Church in any of your run of the mill guidebooks; the place is just too scary to have trusting tourists wandering into. The place drips with history as the existing structure is built on the original site of a Viking chapel dating from the eleventh century.]]></description>
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<title>The Top Ten Midland Tourist Traps in Ireland - Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 12:27:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This Norman Castle straddling the shore of the River Shannon marks the traditional gateway to the West of Ireland, standing like a sentinel over the hustle and bustle of the Athlone Town. Enter the inner walls of the stronghold and wander back through nine centuries of history. ]]></description>
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<title>The History of the Earth Stuffed Into One Day</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:25:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Try to think way, way, way, way outside the box for a minute, try to squeeze the 4,500 million years of the Earth's history into a single day, twenty-four little hours. Difficult isn't it? But if you can, this is how the world has progressed - the first signs of life began creeping around just after four o'clock in the morning, it consisted of simple, single-celled organisms and that was it for the next sixteen hours!]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:21:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The fact that the captains of the two ships, Marie Celeste and Dei Gratia were good friends has led many to speculate that they may have been in cahoots in an insurance scam. However, the profit on such an enterprise would have been very modest, too modest one would think to stage such an elaborate ruse. Some assert the theory of a storm but the weather had been favourable and even if they had hit a freak storm, why would they depart a seaworthy ship in favour of a tiny yawl and indeed take no protective gear?]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:21:06 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[James Winchester was appalled with the cursed ship, selling it immediately at an enormous loss. But the curse on the ship continued, it changed hands an unbelievable seventeen times in the following thirteen years. The beleaguered ship was in terrible shape when it ended up in the hands of GC Parker who deliberately wrecked it in the Caribbean Sea in an insurance fraud on 3 January 1885, thus ending the Marie Celeste's twenty-four hideous years.]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part Four</title>
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<description><![CDATA[So the Marie Celeste was in good shape and seaworthy, yet the crew had abandoned her in a hurry but there was no sign of a piracy raid, a mutiny or any kind of struggle nor was any severe weather reported. None of the crew or passengers were ever found, neither was the yawl. The mysterious ship was sailed to Gibraltar by the Chief Mate of the Dei Gratia, where an investigation was conducted by the Vice Admiralty Court.]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:19:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On closer inspection, the event became all the more bizarre; all the ship's papers with the exception of the captain's logbook were missing; the clock was not working and the compass was smashed, in addition the sextant and the marine chronometer were missing. Compounding the mystery - there had being no attempt to weigh the anchor, roll up the canvas or tie the steering wheel - all contributing to the ship's wild drifting. Mysteriously, the peak halyard, which is used to hoist the main sail, was found tied to the ship, with the other end, terribly frayed, trailing in the ...]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:19:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Another ship, Dei Gratia, captained by a friend of Captain Briggs of the Marie Celeste departed Staten Island, New York one week after the Marie Celeste had set sail; it was following a similar route to the Marie Celeste across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Straits of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. On 4 December 1861, the Dei Gratia was some six hundred miles west of the coast of Portugal when the helmsman sighted a ship about five miles off the port bow. The helmsman noticed that the vessel was lurching slightly and that her sails were scattered and torn. ...]]></description>
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<title>The Most Mysterious Maritime Mystery Ever - The Marie Celeste, Part One</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Marie Celeste, (in fact, in reality it was called the Mary Celeste), is the greatest maritime mystery of all time. She was built in 1861 by Joshua Dewis in Nova Scotia, Canada and was initially named the Amazon. The Amazon was rather calamitous; her first captain died of pneumonia within a week of taking charge; his replacement struck a fishing trawler, forcing the ship to return to the shipyards for repairs where it subsequently caught fire; on it's first trans-Atlantic crossing it once again collided with another vessel.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part Eight</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:25:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Much of the fanfare surrounding Dylan began to dwindle, though it didn't overly concern him, his next three albums Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980) and Shot of Love (1981) were of Christian Gospel music as he flaunted his new status as a Born Again Christian, follow that if you can! And if they were willing to persist they were in for a rollercoaster of a ride for the duration of the eighties. Infidels (1983) marked something of a recovery, Empire Burlesque (1985) was simply puzzling, Knocked Out Loaded (1986) is a sloppy affair while Down In the Groove (1988) ...]]></description>
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<title>The Album of Bob Dylan, Part Seven</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Surely, reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated. Of course they were, he lay low for quite some time, releasing Planet Waves in 1973 which was a good record by anybody's standards bar Dylan's. The Second Coming or was it the Third?]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:13:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The masterpiece that is Highway 61 Revisited (1965) was like a cannonade, Dylan had drove away from Minnesota in 1961 to re-invent himself, only four years later he was thinking it all up again, back on the Blues Highway where Robert Johnson had sold his soul to the devil. Dylan was on another planet, the record came out of no-where and would define the era, everybody else was playing catch-up, everybody else was in the Dark Ages by comparison, as Springsteen later recounted of the opening track, Like a Rolling Stone, 'it sounded like somebody had kicked open a doorway ...]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:07:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Musically, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan would change everything and would create clones of Dylan in bars, student haunts and coffee hang-outs for generations to come. But whatever he did - bedding Joan Baez, walking off the Ed Sullivan Show, singing at the March on Washington, added to the allure, there could be no escape. He wasn't doing himself any favours of escape by releasing the wonderful album The Times They Are a-Changing' (1964), on which he tackled head-on the raging issues of the day - poverty, racism and social change.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:07:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dylan continued to forge links whilst in the uber-cool environment of Greenwich Village, as he burrowed away in the second-hand stores and beetled away in the libraries, studying the past, rooting out rare recordings, discovering lost ballads; examining the way that songs were crafted. It would serve him well, linking the stony ballads of old with the stylish leanings of the Village. He had his finger on the pulse but he created his own zeitgeist, he was re-inventing the role of folk singer-songwriter.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:07:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If that is the case, it is all the more impressive, how could somebody maintain such a dedicated following since 1962, without having major talent, simple answer, they couldn't. Criticising Dylan as simplistic, is maddeningly myopic, Dylan is an icon, in the proper meaning of the term, he is America, as Cadillac is, as Fitzgerald's Gatsby is, as Bellow's Augie March is, as Sinatra is, as Jimmy Dean is, as John Wayne is, as Coca-Cola is, as the Hollywood sign is, as Kentucky Fried Chicken is, as Wendy's is, as Tarantino is, as Wall-Mart is; the point is like him ...]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan, Part One</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:07:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bob Dylan, where to begin, all the superlatives have been used; the man dominates, simply dominates, all are in awe of Old Zimmy, the Eternal Trickster. Eternally inscrutable, he is what a musician should be, known for his sound rather than his life, something that has being forgotten somewhere along the line, doused by lazy journalism, the public's juvenile fascination with artists' paltry affectations and the dumb editorial policies of the rags to feed them, indeed they even make them ravenous for it. Next week sees the release of his thirty-third studio album, Together Through Life (2009), how apt, The ...]]></description>
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<title>What is in Haggis?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:58:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA['Have you had the haggis yet?' This is a question that visitors to Scotland's shores will hear more than once in the course of their stay; usually delivered with a wry grin and an all knowing wink. So what is haggis?]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Seven</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:57:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Boss was heading back Nebraska way, stirring up the ghosts of Guthrie and Steinbeck once again. It was grim, and after it's release, Springsteen disappeared, it was like the disillusionment had become too much for him, that he had become sick and tired about the lack of change. Rumours abounded that that was it for The Boss, he was retiring, we wouldn't hear from him again.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:57:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[His target was now more micro; romantic relationships, personal entanglements, warring domesticity; all are met head on. He rallies against the promises that we make and then break, the demons that pursue us, driving us from our lofty ideals of love and commitment. And Springsteen ain't wagging fingers, he places himself at the very epicentre of the record, strikingly his own marriage was to break up in the wake of the album.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:56:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If Nebraska isolated him, the following album Born in the USA (1984), brought the world to his feet, it became on of the best selling albums of all time, seven of it's singles broke the US Top 10. The band embarked on what would become one of their trademark mammoth tours to promote the album. For fifteen months, the Springsteen crew roamed the globe, night after night delivering marathon sets of spell-binding intensity.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:56:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[He completed the trilogy of albums with The River (1980), a double album tour de force with a staggering range of styles on show. If Born to Run and Darkness at the Edge of Town detailed the experiences, The River throws up what people do after the realisation of the betrayals committed against them and indeed their complicity in them. But Springsteen ain't offering a candy-coated path of redemption, no sir, rather he maps out the Dreiserian paths that are taken, the method of simply finding a way, to deal, to move forward.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:56:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Born to Run (1975) was to change everything, although Springsteen struggled terribly in recording it. Seeing it as his last chance at achieving a commercially viable record, he strove for perfection, becoming frustrated when the sounds in his head were not being replicated in the studio, indeed he was deeply unhappy with the final product. It was released to great hype, the rumours had been building and building, a rare thing, they were justified, the record re-defined the whole thing, rock and roll that is.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:55:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Or so it appeared, but appearances can be deceiving and this one was, small-town they were but definitely not small-time, some of these New Jersey shore guys included Steve van Zandt, Vini Lopez and Vinnie Roslin, all of who would be in Springsteen's first successful band, Steel Mill and would go on to form the core of the E-Street Band. As would Asbury Park itself, Springsteen has drawn influence from the small town, right down to the present day. The decade spent in the wilderness, served him well as he honed his craft as a songwriter, musician and performer.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bruce Springsteen, Part One</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:55:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Boss is a hard one to nail down, a mega star who forges an intimate bond with his listeners; a mainstream artist who attains a street creed even amongst the snobbiest aficionados; a musician who has always being valid, being required, yet has never changed his clothes, never mind alter his image; one of the 'next Bob Dylan' brigade who succeeded in not being anything like Bob Dylan in some ways and who was perhaps the only one of the brigade to succeed.]]></description>
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<title>Inside the Acid House Scene, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Life was too heavy to be heavy when out. This is where the whole thing becomes sort of complicated, the authorities feared the movement because from the outside looking in, they perceived the powers that could collect thousands of people into remote fields must surely be doing more than just facilitating them to dance. Anybody with that power would, wouldn't they?]]></description>
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<title>Inside Acid House, Part Four</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Teen pop was howling it's ridiculous chants through every speaker in the country, there was no escaping New Kids on the Block and Tiffany. Lionel Ritchie and Whitney Heuston were telling us fairytales. Alternative rock was beginning to enter the mainstream, but bands like The Cure and The Smiths were still pretty isolated, shouting in from the terraces, and anyway thousands and thousands were not going to gather in a warehouse to sing along to Morrissey and Robert Smith.]]></description>
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<title>Inside the Acid House Scene - Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:54:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But as the old mantra goes, not making a decision, is in itself making a decision. The United Kingdom had been wracked for a decade under the individualist policies of the Thatcher administration. Acid house stressed the collective and offered a means of escape from a country where the wealthy were prospering whereas the masses were suffering deprivation, anomie and isolation from the main.]]></description>
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<title>Inside the Acid House Scene - Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:38:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After-hour clubbing was illegal in London and the police began cracking down on the clubs, so punters needed places to go. They began to hold events in more innocuous venues such as warehouses and disused spaces. Thus, the rave scene was born. Demand was huge and so the raves in turn became huge. They began to be run by production companies or unlicensed clubs such as Revolution in Progress and Sunrise. These massive events began to garner acres of negative newsprint criticising the hedonism, decadence and drug-taking of these events.]]></description>
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<title>Inside the Acid House Scene - Part One</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Acid House was branded by Chicago DJs who were experimenting with the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesiser-sequencer in the mid-1980s. The TB (Transistor Bass) was originally developed with guitarists in mind, to provide them with bass accompaniment for when they were practicing. The word acid was used to describe the acid, squelchy sound that the synthesiser produced.]]></description>
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<title>The Albums of Bob Dylan - Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:04:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On 29 July 1966, Bob suffered serious injuries following a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He disappeared from public life, retiring behind the white picket fence with his wife and kids, the crowds attempted to seek out their saviour, but Dylan had being trying to escape the baying hordes for years, the accident cemented his resolve, he refused to tour for eight years, once again he was going to do things his way. Of course he continued to create, John Wesley Harding (1967) was a pared down, contemplative effort; informing the masses that he was not ...]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:56:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Morrissey had adored the New York Dolls, macho wasn't going to cut it, the single garnered a cult following, were they really listening? The cads in the hallowed towers chanted pedophilia, oh please, throw enough mud and all, is it? This Charming Man the follow-up single, broke the charts, were The Smiths happy?]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Seven</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:25:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Top (1984), although their least performed album, was a definitive turning point for the band and was a Top Ten hit in the UK. They embarked on a world tour to promote the album, the new line-up featuring Smith, Tolhurst, a retuning Porl Thompson (last seen with The Cure pre-Three Imaginary Boys), Andy Anderson on drums and producer turned bassist Phil Tornalley. The tour was markedly different from previous The Cure efforts, they even found time to record their first live album, Concert.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:25:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The 1982 single Let's Go To Bed, which was the complete opposite of what The Cure had stood for, surprisingly therefore (or perhaps unsurprisingly) it was a minor hit, despite the fact that Smith had publicly derided and ridiculed the song. Despite it's relative success, Smith appeared still disinterested, abandoning The Cure or at least abandoning Tolhurst who was the only other member left, and re-joining The Banshees. ]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:24:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pornography (1982) was a masterpiece, true, but that did not matter a jot to the band at the time. Dwelling in a suspended reality with detractors on all sides they faced the torment of a world tour to promote the album which was called the Fourteen Explicit Moments Tour. It was far from pleasant, the band crawled further into their tiny triangle, painting their faces white, their eyes red, which had the grotesque effect when the heat was on that they appeared to be weeping blood.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:24:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The band made it back to Britain after the Faith tour, tattered and battered. Audiences had not reacted well to the quasi-religious, sombre, morbid gigs. The band were on a downward spiral and flying headlong into a deepening depression. However, Robert Smith was still persisting to fulfill his austere vision, stating that the new album would be called Pornography, hardly the sunny escape route that the band needed. Smith was in an abysmal state, a wreck, he was incapable of expressing his ideas to the rest of the band.]]></description>
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<title>Confesssions of a Curehead, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:22:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The second single Boy's Don't Cry, was released in June but rather surprisingly, even after it was universally praised by critics, it failed to capture the public's attention to any great extent. In September 1978, the band embarked on a nationwide tour with Siouxsie and The Banshees, it was to prove to be a monumental turning point for The Cure.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:22:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Working now as just a trio - Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey recorded sessions at Chesnut Studios in Sussex and sent the demo tapes off to all the major labels. What a first effort it was! containing the tracks Boys Don't Cry, Fire in Cairo, It's Not You and 10.15.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part One</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:21:30 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Robert Smith turns fifty this month, yes, that's how old we're all getting. King Curehead clocks the half century, happy birthday Bobby-boy, ya made it. Back in the late 1970s it didn't look that way, did it? In fact, you wouldn't have put all your pennies on the whole Gothic Rock genre lasting to blow the fifty candles.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Seven</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:21:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[But all was far from rosy; suspicions were verified when Marr left the band in June 1987 and from what we thought we knew about these fellows, there would be no going back, there would be no emotional reunion of hugs and kisses. It was over, Smithmania had bitten the dust. The general statement issued was that Morrissey had become sick and tired of Marr's dalliances with other bands, while Marr was sick and tired of Morrissey's musical inflexibilities. Battle lines were drawn, the ice age cometh. ]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:12:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On the Queen Is Dead record, Morrissey appeared to be accepting that much of the criticism levelled at him during the previous months. Though perhaps not justified, it was okay and he accepted them. It wasn't the end of the world, The Smiths were still producing music of the finest calibre and he wasn't so serious as everybody accused. It was good while the album lasted but alas all was far from well, the wheels were indeed coming off.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Ten</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:12:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Wish (1992) was to be the band's major commercial peak, as the band chopped and changed with Thompson and Williams leaving, Roger O'Donnell returning and Jason Cooper being drafted in on drums. The following album, Wild Mood Swings (1996) received poor reviews, perhaps because Smith seemed happier than ever, or perhaps the hardened Cureheads just simply couldn't take the unbridled joy of the vanilla pop, strawberry happy single, Mint Car.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:11:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Following the release of Meat is Murder (1985), the band embarked on a lengthy tour of the UK and the US. On their return they began working on their third album proper but a legal dispute with Rough Trade Records led to a delay in its release. Somewhere in the midst of all this, the inevitable cracks began to appear, The Smiths were susceptible to the smaller picture after all.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Curehead, Part Nine</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:11:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Disintegration (1989) was perhaps a reminder to all recent Cureheads of what the band were really about. Many had come aboard following the massive selling The Head on the Door (1985) and Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me (1987) - halcyon days for hardened veterans of the band. ]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:10:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Smiths were taking over the youth, the synth brigade with all their flash clothes, flash videos, flash, flash, flash, could all just flash off, we had one, that's all we needed - just one to be candid. And Morrissey was fanning it, he was what we always wanted our pop stars to be, not a phony, he was doing what we would do if we found ourselves in such an exalted position. But would we do what he was doing? probably not, we would metamorphose into a bloody New Romantic.]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:03:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Through the rest of 1984, they released a series of singles that were not contained on the album, they were to be some of their most enduring songs. All of these singles, B-sides and different versions of songs were gathered on the end of year compilation album Hatful of Hollow (1984).]]></description>
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<title>Confessions of a Smiths Fan, Part One</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:57:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Steven Patrick Morrissey and John Maher formed The Smiths in 1982. Steven wanted to be known as Morrissey and John as Johnny Marr (to avoid confusion with The Buzzcock's drummer who was his namesake) and so Morrissey and Marr, one of the most famous duos in pop music was born. They were joined by Marr's school-friend Andy Rourke on bass and Mike Joyce on drums; deciding on the name The Smiths, the simplistic brand, a direct reaction to the over use of complicated, arty band names.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part Six</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Extraordinarily, the only thing that the prisoners had to keep them going and give them hope was football and the Makana Football Association. The Association set up a football league consisting of teams made up by the prisoners with the teams divided by their political affiliation. It created solidarity amongst the prisoners and indeed it proved to them that they could together run a federation under the harshest, most oppressive of regimes.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part Five</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:22 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 1961, Mandela became leader of the ANC'S armed wing, Umknonto we Sizwe (MK) and began to co-ordinate sabotage campaigns against military and government targets, he also organised paramilitary training and fund raised for the movement. As a result of these activities, Mandela was forced to go on the run, adapting many disguises to evade capture. Working on a tip-off from the CIA, the South African authorities finally managed to locate him, he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mandela's role was to travel the country to organise resistance to discriminatory legislation, he was arrested, charged and convicted of contravening the Suppression of Communism Act, he was given a suspended sentence. In addition, he was prohibited from attending gatherings and was restricted to the confines of Johannesburg for six months. During his confinement to the capital, Mandela along with Oliver Tambo opened a law practice, in which they represented thousands of people who were subjected to horrific treatment by the apartheid government, offering low cost legal counsel.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Under the leadership of Anton Lembede, the younger members like Nelson Mandela began the formidable task of transforming the African National Congress (ANC) into a mass movement by expanding it's membership to include the millions of illiterate working people in the towns and countryside of South Africa. They formed the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), Nelson Mandela proved to be a highly efficient organiser and tireless worker and was soon elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League in 1947.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So, how was he so prevalent? Why was he cared about so much? How does his star still shine?]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Life of Nelson Mandela, Part One</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:45:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela, the man has always existed. Even when locked away in a lonely cell on the rocky, battered and forgotten Robin Island, the world was somehow aware of this remarkable man. Personally, I cannot recall when I first became acquainted with him, he was just always there, a part of my life, like he was a part of everyone's life.]]></description>
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<title>What is and Where is Timbuktu? Part Four</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:55:15 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The decline of the city began when European explorers and slavers began establishing bases on the West African coast, thereby providing alternatives to the slave market in Timbuktu and the trade route which had to cross the mighty Sahara. The rot was compounded by the successful capture of the city by a Moroccan army under the leadership of Pasha Mahmud ibn Zarquan in 1591. The Moroccan force plundered the city, burned the great libraries, executed many scholars and deported many more to Fez and Marrakech.]]></description>
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<title>What is and Where is Timbuktu? Part Three</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:55:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Mali Empire flourished mainly due to its immense gold mines, by the beginning of the fourteenth century, Mali was the source of almost half the world's gold, it also boasted huge reserves of salt and copper. During the decades of the fifteenth century, a number of Islamic institutions were established including the mighty Sankore mosque which became known as the University of Sankore. Timbuktu became a flourishing centre of learning, culture and education; it had three universities and almost two hundred Quranic schools.]]></description>
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<title>What is and Where is Timbuktu? Part Two</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:55:03 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Timbuktu is located exactly where the Niger River flows northward into the southern edge of the mighty Sahara. It soon became a central meeting point for the various nomadic tribes who included Songhai, Wangara, Fulani, Tuareg and Arabs. The settlement began to grow and traders from both further north and further south began to make their way to Timbuktu to do business.]]></description>
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