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Link: 86 Surprising Facts About Queen Elizabeth II
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,2880...
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You don't get to your Diamond Jubilee without accruing some impressive stats. Here's a fact for each year Elizabeth has graced this Earth.
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Kids Invent Edible Diamond Slippers, Champagne Soup For Queen's Jubilee
Shift Buzz The Duchess of Cornwall (better known to some as Camilla Parker-Bowles) challenged kids to come up with special dishes for the event this summer. Some of their creations include Luv-lee Jub-lee Bub-lee (soup made from champagne, elderflower, and strawberries), Diamond Slippers (cake slippers with edible diamonds), and Beefeater's Delight (potatoes with horseradish and beef).
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Link: Constitutional Wrangle May Be Delaying Royal Pregnancy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/17/why-kate...
Because not being pregnant because she doesn't want to be is not a viable reason. Turns out the succession wording may be what's keeping the buns out of Kate's oven.
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This Is The Perfect Face
Culture Buzz Science! Florence Colgate, an 18-year-old student from Kent, England, has what's been anointed by Lorraine Cosmetics as Britain's Perfect Face. Using measurements of her features, she mathematically almost perfectly fits the formulaic standard of beauty.
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The Duchess Of Cornwall Is A Proper Lady Having A Proper Spasm
Celebrity Buzz Here's Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, having a full blown conniption at the festival of silly hats and horses known as Cheltenham. Looks like she's having a fit of Irritable Bowles Syndrome. Boom. Anglophile joke.
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Link: Siri Shouts Expletives At Twelve-Year-Old Boy
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/172044/siri-blows-off-som...
She has become self-aware. Or someone on the Apple store in Britain messed with her settings. But it's more fun to believe the former.
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World War II Prison Camp Cross-Stitch Had Hidden Message For Hitler
Culture Buzz This is a really awesome story. Below is the crafty and subversive work of Major Alexis Casdagli, a British soldier held captive in a German POW camp from 1941-1945. Here's a needle in your eye, Adolph!
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This Was Stolen From The British Embassy In Iran
Culture Buzz The one thing Iranian hardliners and British diplomats can agree on: Samuel L. Jackson.
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Deadmau5 Performs Crazy Light Show On Millbank Tower In Britain
Music Buzz DJ Deadmau5 is best known for his iconic mouse helmet and awesome electronic beats. The Millbank Tower is an iconic skyscraper visible for miles at night in Britain. When you put the two together for a Nokia sponsored event, you get a light show of epic proportion (even if you're not on ecstasy).
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Link: Hitler’s Fake Passport
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/09/hitlers-fake-passport/
Wait a minute, Hitler isn’t a Jewish painter! As a joke, forgers at the United Kingdomâs Special Operations Executive made this fake German passport in 1941.
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Politics And Bullying Are The Real Reasons Christopher Eccleston left Doctor Who After Only One Series
TV Buzz It seems he was miffed about directors bullying prop guys or something. Read more at The Daily Mail.
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British Celebrities As Superheroes
TV Buzz Ever wonder what your favorite British celebrities would look like if they decided to dress up as superheroes? No? Just me? Okay then. As a publicity stunt for the overseas Syfy premiere of The Cape, London illustrator James Husbands has re-imagined some of England's stars as superheroes. These are super creative, but didn't The Cape do terribly in America? And where are the drawings of the cast of Doctor Who as superheroes? (via telegraph.co.uk)
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Emergency Session Of Parliament Called As Rupert Murdoch Scandal Reaches Upper Echelons Of Government
Culture Buzz British Prime Minister David Cameron has cut short a trade trip to South Africa in order to attend an emergency session of Parliament so that he may answer questions about his own involvement in the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal. The move comes as Britain's two top police officers have resigned in the face of corruption and bribery allegations related to the scandal, a scandal which has now become a crisis threatening every major institution in the UK.
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Rupert Murdoch Withdraws Bid For Sky Broadcasting, Will Be Investigated For Spying On 9/11 Victims
Culture Buzz In a major blow to News Corp., Rupert Murdoch has abandoned efforts to acquire British Sky Broadcasting, admitting that the fallout from the metastasizing phone hacking scandal has made the bid politically impossible. On another front in the fast-moving scandal, British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised a thorough inquiry into allegations Murdoch's employees attempted to bribe a New York City police officer in order to obtain information on victims of the 9/11 attacks.
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Massive Phone Hacking Scandal Leads To Investigation Of Rupert Murdoch Company, Tabloid Shut Down Amid Uproar
Culture Buzz UPDATE: Bowing to intensifying public and political pressure, Rupert Murdoch's son has announced that the News of the World will publish its last issue on Sunday. The uproar in Britain over a tabloid hacking into private cell phone data has intensified as it was revealed some of the phones may have belonged to dead soldiers, missing children and victims of terrorist attacks. British Prime Minister David Cameron has called the revelations “absolutely disgusting” and has called for public inquiries, on top of an ever-widening police investigation, into the scandal.
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Image: World's First Amphibious Ice Cream Truck
Licensed to chill. The HMS Flake 99 will serve British ice cream lovers on both land and sea, as it’s the world’s first amphibious ice cream van. (via autointhenews.com)
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Britain is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Britain.
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Video: Watch The Royal Wedding In Two Minutes
Did you sleep through the wedding of the century? Bad commoner. Lucky for you, BuzzFeed smooshed the five hour extravaganza down to a bite sized, two-minute highlight video.
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Image: I Am Only 6 But I Think I Can Do This Job
An application from Sam Pointon, who was then 6-years-old, for the position of Director of the National Railway Museum of Britain. He can control two trains at once. Might be overqualified.
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Link: Survey Reveals Britons Believe Sci-Fi Technologies Already Exist
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/14/survey-reveals-britons-...
We just assume they're smart because of their accent.
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Video: The United Kingdom Explained
This video explaining the differences between Great Britain, the UK, and England is seriously revelatory. I'll never accidentally offend an Irish person again!
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Former World’s Fattest Man Sues Government Over His Weight
Culture Buzz Paul Mason, formerly the world's fattest man, is suing the British government for not helping him lose enough weight. Here's a gallery of why he's so upset. What's that thing in between his legs?
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Link: Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain....
The new government's plan would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service since its inception in 1948.
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Link: Cameron Warns Britons of Austerity
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/world/europe/08britain....
Prime Minister David Cameron said that Britain's financial situation is even worse than we thought.
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Fear of Knees
Culture Buzz Sarah Lister is afraid of other people's kneecaps. Just seeing strangers' knees leaves her “flustered, angry and sweating profusely.” Yo' knees make me sweat, girl. Technically called Genuphobia, Lister's fear of knees began when she was 11 and her father dislocated his kneecap. Strange, huh?
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