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ATMs speak Cockney.(East End, London)(transactions in automated teller machines programmes using Cockney rhyming slang)(Brief article)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 541 words; ...to make transactions in the neighborhood dialect, Cockney rhyming slang. After the machine reads their bladder of lard, customers will enter their Huckleberry Finn before making withdrawals in multiples of speckled hen, for instance. For some...

Drogo the last castle: tucked onto the edge of Dartmoor, with central heating.
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1700 words; ...Julius Drewe named his new family seat after him: Drogo Castle. Julius Charles Drew...China, then ran a tea shop in Liverpool before opening a small grocer's shop in Paddington...humanity over nature...." In the years after 1925, this increasingly gave us an architecture...

Police arrest illegal shebeen operators; Community angered by arrests as Western Cape Liquor Act takes full effect.(News)
Cape Argus (South Africa); 12/31/2009; 677 words; ...They say they are being targeted more than in previous years, after the enactment of the new law. But Mbulawa said the crackdown...The operators are usually warned to shut down their operations before they are arrested, said Mbulawa. He said these operators would...

WHAT WAS GREAT IN '08.(News)
The Boston Herald; 12/31/2009; 1036 words; ...having writ, moves on . . . But before it moves on to 2009, here...in 2008: Bob Lobel, hours before doing his last Channel 4 sportscast...The Rev. Ronny Lanier, 90, after lightning damaged First Baptist...looking to see if anybody was after her. I was aware of dead bodies...

ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 29 - Israel Set For Ground Invasion.
APS Diplomat Recorder; 12/31/2009; 911 words; ...trapped under the rubble. Shortly before targeting Al-Sarayya, the...deeper into Israel than ever before. Palestinian President Mahmoud...Israel that collapsed last week. After meeting with Egyptian President...Palestinians entering Egypt after Israel launched airstrikes to...