Posts Tagged ‘Fortune’

Widow Sues Her Kids To Gain Husbands Millions

Thursday, July 3, 2008 14:35 No Comments

Actress Taryn Dielle, 42, decided to sue her own children (aged one and three) after her husband, Mark Butler, died of cancer last year. Her husband left a fortune of over £2 million of which she is entitled only £125,000 due to the lack of last will.
She is taking this action to gain access to [...]

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No fortune cookies at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Saturday, January 19, 2008 19:00 No Comments

The fortune cookies that we all know and have in every Chinese restaurant that we go are not Chinese. As Jennifer Lee in her New York Times research, the Fortune Cookies are actually Japanese. For some reason Americans (and most of the rest of the world) have connected them to China. Specifically Jennifer reports [...]

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Foreign magazine subscriptions

Sunday, January 6, 2008 22:17 2 Comments

Once a month I open my door and I see Wired magazine sitting there waiting for me to read it. I have subscribed to it and there are two reasons for it. Firstly because it comes straight to my house, so I do not have to search it in specialized shops and secondly its by [...]

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