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A Weighty Issue - Fat through History

Those of us who struggle with weight sometimes may wish we had been born in an earlier time, when being plump meant a woman was “Rubenesque”, not fat, and a large man was manly, not sluggish. But in...

0 comments    health life food
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How to convince your parents to put you in hostel?

  Dear fellow hubbers,   I have written out these 15 weird tips on how to convince your parents to put you in hostel as requested by london_guide in the hub requests section but while writing them,...

2 comments    entertainment family how to
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Holiday Supplement

 We all know that the holiday season is right around the corner. First comes Halloween with all its wonderful snickers and baby ruth bars. Thanksgiving is next and then it all wraps up with the seasonal...

0 comments    nutrition holiday wellness
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I Wish I Were Dead - A Poem

This poem is based on real events only the names have been changed so that the people involved are not easy to identify from the poem. Lost and alone Feeling so sad and blue Locked up in jail And...

22 comments    suicide prison hunger strike
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Eighth Day of Hunger Strike For Roxana Saberi

05/11/2009 AP wire is reporting that Journalist Roxana Saberi is to be freed from an Iranian jail today and will be sent home immediately. She was given the reduced sentence in an eight hour closed door...

0 comments    lawyer paris iran
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TAMIL TIGERS

  WHATS ALL THE FUSS ABOUT? When you say Sri Lanka to people on the street- they say “ Beautifull place, went there last year- it was amazing”. When you tell them about the war-they say “Sh*t...

0 comments    war media london
Jan Egeland [Library Photo]63

LTTE

We sometimes criticize others without knowing the history. We will be doing injustice to the world if we discuss anything about LTTE and its freedom struggle before fully reading and knowing its history. ...

2 comments    government tamil human rights
a portrait in rage69

Bernadette Devlin: A Portrait in Rage

link "Bernadette MacAlisky [née Devlin] was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone. She was educated at St.Patrick's Academy, Dungannon and at Queen's University, Belfast where she joined the University...

9 comments    education women politics
Photo: Sinéad Moore and Mairéad Farrell in the yard at Armagh Gaol69

the forgotten protesters

. Silent Grace "It was barely reported that the IRA hunger strikes of the 1980s involved women. Now a new film is to tell their story... ...The 1980/81 hunger strikes were one of the most traumatic...

6 comments    education women politics
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Fast for all political Prisoners every friday

My freedom loving brethren we have done a fast for Mr. Farinas several times in the past. Mr. Fari

0 comments    health politics democracy
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