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Top 5 Premier League Signings of the Summer: Arsenal, Manchester United, Sunderland, West Brom and Tottenham Take a Bow

• Nov 16, 2010 from mabujo in Sports
  Were these the best buys of the summer? Did Emirates boss Arsene Wenger strike gold? Has Steve Bruce brought a touch of class to the Stadium of Light? How did Harry Redknapp manage to get such a class act to come to White Hart Lane for just 8m? Does Sir Alex have a ready made Old Trafford goal machine?Place any bet your like and get 25 worth of free bets!The Premiership has a reputation of being the hardest league in Europe. Its fast, its rough, and its not for everybody. Clubs spend millions of their precious pounds each summer, hoping to attract the very best in world football, but the

Divers find 230-year-old bottles of champaign belonging to King Louis XIV

• Jul 17, 2010 from RawStory(The Raw Story) in Politics
  Divers have found bottles of champagne some 230 years old on the bottom of the Baltic which a wine expert described Saturday as tasting "fabulous".Thought to be premium brand Veuve Clicquot, the 30 bottles discovered perfectly preserved at a depth of 55 metres (180 feet) could have been in a consignment sent by France's King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court.If confirmed, it would be by far the oldest champagne still drinkable in the world, thanks to the ideal conditions of cold and darkness."We have contacted (makers) Moet & Chandon and they are 98 percent certain it is Veuve Clicquot," Christian Ekstroem, the head of the diving team, told AFP."There is an anchor on the cork and they told me they are the only ones to have used this sign," he said, adding that a sample of the champagne has been sent to Moet & Chandon for their analysis. Story continues below...The group of seven Swedish divers made their find on July 6 off the Finnish Aaland island, mid-way between Sweden and Finland, near the remains of a sailing vessel."Visibility was very bad, hardly a metre," Ekstroem said. "We couldn't find the name of the ship, or the bell, so I brought a bottle up to try to date it."The handmade bottle bore no label, while the cork was marked Juclar, from its origin in Andorra.According to records, Veuve Clicquot was first produced in 1772, but the first bottles were laid down for 10 years."So it can't be before 1782, and it can't be after 1788-89, when the French Revolution disrupted production," Ekstroem said.Aaland wine expert Ella Gruessner Cromwell-Morgan, whom Ekstroem asked to taste the find, said it had not lost its fizz and was "absolutely fabulous"."I still have a glass in my fridge and keep going back every five minutes to take a breath of it. I have to pinch myself to believe it's real," she said.Cromwell-Morgan described the champagne as dark golden in colour with a very intense aroma."There's a lot of tobacco, but also grape and white fruits, oak and mead," she said of the wine's "nose".As for the taste, "it's really surprising, very sweet but still with some acidity," the expert added, explaining that champagne of that period was much less dry than today and the fermentation process less controllable."One strong supposition is that it's part of a consignment sent by King Louis XVI to the Russian Imperial Court," Cromwell-Morgan said. "The makers have a record of a delivery which never reached its destination."That would make it the oldest drinkable champagne known, easily beating the 1825 Perrier-Jouet tasted by experts in London last year.Cromwell-Morgan estimated the opening price at auction of each bottle at around half a million Swedish kronor (53,000 euros, 69,000 dollars)."But if it's really Louis XVI's wine, it could fetch several million," she added.The remaining bottles, which could number more than the 30 uncovered by the divers, will remain on the seabed for the time being. Their exact location is being kept secret.Meanwhile local authorities on Aaland will meet Monday to decide who legally owns the contents of the wreck. The archipelago at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia belongs to Finland, though it enjoys autonomy from Helsinki and its inhabitants speak Swedish.

Timeline of The Historical Events of WW1 (Assassination of Franz Ferdinand to the Armistice Signing of 1918)

• Sep 15, 2010 from thefreeresource(The Free Resource) in *
  
  
  
  Events Leading up to WW1
  January 18, 1871 :
  Bismarck completes efforts to unify Prussia and the German kingdoms into a single nation and has King Wilhelm I proclaimed Kaiser.
  May 10, 1871 :
  France forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany that ends the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War.
  1888 :
  After his fathers untimely death, 29 year-old Wilhelm II becomes ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany.
  1894 :
  Nicolas is crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want. Germany and Russia do not renew a friendship treaty and begin their adversary relationship.
  1901 :
  Great Britains Queen Victoria, whose bloodline runs through most of the ruling houses of Europe, dies.
  1904-1905 :
  Russo-Japanese War results in disastrous defeat for Russia and major civil unrest at home
  January 22, 1905 :
  Bloody Sunday Massacre by Tsarist troops in St. Petersburg left Russian workers dead and cost Nicholas support among the workers and farmers. The number killed is uncertain but the tsars officials recorded 96 dead and 333 injured.
  1906 :
  British launch first dreadnought class battleship.
  Timeline of The History of World War 1
  28 June 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand:
  Franz Ferdinand, aged 51, was heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was married to Sophie Chotek von Chotvoka and had three children. Franz Ferdinand was, however, very unpopular because he had made it clear that once he became Emperor he would make changes. The Balkan states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been annexed from Turkey and taken into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was strongly resented by many Serbs and Croats and a nationalist group, The Black Hand, was formed. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, had decided to inspect Austro-Hungarian troops in Bosnia. A Serbian nationalist student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, when their open car stopped at a corner on its way out of the town.
  28 July 1914 Austria declared war on Serbia:
  The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. Although Russia was allied with Serbia, Germany did not believe that she would mobilise and offered to support Austria if necessary. However, Russia did mobilise and, through their alliance with France, called on the French to mobilise.
  1 Aug 1914 Germany declared war on Russia:
  Germany declared war on Russia.
  3 Aug 1914 Germany declared war on France:
  Germany declared war on France. German troops poured into Belgium under the Schleiffen Plan, drawn up in 1905. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium.
  4 Aug 1914 British declaration of war:
  Germany did not withdraw from Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany.
  Aug 1914 Battle of Tannenberg:
  The Russian army marched into Prussia. The ensuing battle was a heavy defeat for the Russians with thousands of men killed and 125,000 taken prisoner. Although the Germans won the battle, 13,000 men were killed.
  13 Aug 1914 Japan declared war on Germany:
  Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902
  Sept 1914 Battle of Masurian Lakes:
  Having defeated the Russian Second army, the Germans turned their attention to the Russian First army at Masurian Lakes. Although the Germans were unable to defeat the army completely, over 100,000 Russians were taken prisoner.
  29 Oct 1914 Turkey:
  Turkey entered the war on the side of the central powers and gave help to a German naval bombardment of Russia.
  2 Nov 1914 Russia declared war on Turkey:
  Because of the help given by Turkey to the German attack of Russia, Russia declared war on Turkey.
  5 Nov 1914 Britain and France declared war on Turkey
  Britain and France, Russias allies, declared war on Turkey, because of the help given to the German attack on Russia.
  1914 Early stages of the war:
  The German advance through Belgium to France did not go as smoothly as the Germans had hoped. The Belgians put up a good fight destroying railway lines to slow the transport of German supplies. Despite a French counter-attack that saw the deaths of many Frenchmen on the battlefields at Ardennes, the Germans continued to march into France. They were eventually halted by the allies at the river Marne. British troops had advanced from the northern coast of France to the Belgian town of Mons. Although they initially held off the Germans, they were soon forced to retreat. The British lost a huge number of men at the first battle of Ypres.
  Dec 1914 Zeppelins:
  The first Zeppelins appeared over the English coast.
  7 May 1915 Lusitania sunk:
  There outraged protests from the United States at the German U-boat campaign, when the Lusitania, which had many American passengers aboard, was sank. The Germans moderated their U-boat campaign.
  23 May 1915 Italy:
  Italy entered the war on...

Anelka Chelsea

• Nov 29, 2010 from ahmedanies in Business
  Anelka Chelsea. Nicolas Anelka the twenty eight year old French striker has been signed by Chelsea from Bolton for a staggering fifteen million pounds. I am very concerned that this is further

WLU Symphony Orchestra Review 13/10/07

• Oct 15, 2007 from missmussel(The Omniscient Mussel)
  From the first notes, it was obvious that this is a group that plays very well together, an encouraging sign considering the school year is just five weeks old. After a little bit of furniture shuffling, soloist Wil Herzog made his way to the front of the stage to perform the last two movements of Mendelssohn?s Violin Concerto in E minor. A patron