<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Britain's first A to Z: The amazing 14th-century map of Britain : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>Britain's first A to Z: The amazing 14th-century map of Britain : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-08T01:08:08+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's first A to Z: The amazing 14th-century map of Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/49073/1/" /><id>49073</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's first A to Z: The amazing 14th-century map of Britain]]></summary><issued>2008-01-31T20:08:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-31T20:08:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It is the oldest surviving map of Britain, dating from around 1360.<br/><br/>The cartographer must have been feeling cocky.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Revealed: Britain, 100 years ago - in living colour]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39287/1/" /><id>39287</id><summary><![CDATA[Revealed: Britain, 100 years ago - in living colour]]></summary><issued>2007-10-23T11:04:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-23T11:04:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[These remarkable photographs show Britain at the dawn of the 20th century in a way that has never been seen before. A photographic record of the country in 1900, from Clacton Pier to Dumfries, the delicate colours bring the scenes to life in what was then a revolutionary photographic technique invented by the Swiss printer Orell Fussli.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Malaysian sues Britain over ethnic Indians' woes]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42178/1/" /><id>42178</id><summary><![CDATA[ Malaysian sues Britain over ethnic Indians' woes]]></summary><issued>2007-11-21T07:18:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-21T07:18:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An ethnic Indian in Malaysia is using an audacious strategy to highlight the plight of his mostly impoverished community by suing Britain, the country's former colonial ruler, for $4 trillion (1.9 trillion pounds).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Pint Lives: Metric Britain Abandoned]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36859/1/" /><id>36859</id><summary><![CDATA[The Pint Lives: Metric Britain Abandoned]]></summary><issued>2007-09-26T21:10:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-26T21:10:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's first shopping centre found - and it's 1,800 years old]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/67584/1/" /><id>67584</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's first shopping centre found - and it's 1,800 years old]]></summary><issued>2008-07-03T02:39:04+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-03T02:39:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[One of Britain's very first shopping centres has been unearthed by archeologists in a Welsh field. The 1,800-year-old row of narrow shop buildings shows that the Romans in Britain had their very own well-heeled fashionistas.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's slave history going online]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18119/1/" /><id>18119</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's slave history going online]]></summary><issued>2007-04-27T09:22:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-27T09:22:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain's slave trading past is getting a human face as an ancestry-tracing website starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/11184/1/" /><id>11184</id><summary><![CDATA[Modern Slavery in Britain: In Photographs]]></summary><issued>2007-02-20T13:13:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-20T13:13:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As Britain prepares to commemorate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, a new photographic exhibition focuses on human trafficking in the UK today.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain's oldest honeymooners have a combined age of 178]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/49985/1/" /><id>49985</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain's oldest honeymooners have a combined age of 178]]></summary><issued>2008-02-09T10:53:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-09T10:53:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He's 93 and she's 85 and they are madly in love as any other newlyweds. They are on a month-long tour around Britain and Ireland in a R.V.<br/><i>doesn't the picture of them in the vehicle look like a very poor photoshop?</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Female millionaires on the rise in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17908/1/" /><id>17908</id><summary><![CDATA[Female millionaires on the rise in Britain]]></summary><issued>2007-04-25T22:58:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-25T22:58:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Wealth used to be a man's world, but the gap between the sexes when it comes to money is narrowing rapidly in Britain.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain for Americans]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/11936/1/" /><id>11936</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain for Americans]]></summary><issued>2007-03-01T09:21:07+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-01T09:21:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is a guide  to Britain written for Americans who may be planning a visit here. Use this guide to help you become familar with the many complex, sometimes strange customs of the British People.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Weekend of silliness celebrated in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19315/1/" /><id>19315</id><summary><![CDATA[Weekend of silliness celebrated in Britain]]></summary><issued>2007-05-07T01:33:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-07T01:33:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The summer season has begun in Britain, celebrated during the weekend with eccentric rituals aimed at being silly for the sake of national identity.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain owes world &#163;31 trillion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/21180/1/" /><id>21180</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain owes world &#163;31 trillion]]></summary><issued>2007-05-23T15:40:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-23T15:40:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[According to the International Coalition for British Reparations, Britain owes the world &#163;31 trillion! If you think they're right, sign the petition.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wet weather means Britain is now home to a staggering 14 billion slugs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32617/1/" /><id>32617</id><summary><![CDATA[Wet weather means Britain is now home to a staggering 14 billion slugs]]></summary><issued>2007-08-22T03:49:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-22T03:49:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain's gardens have been invaded by record numbers of slugs as the wet weather sees their population double.<br/><br/>I hate slugs!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hospital staff told to make sure Muslim patients' beds face Mecca five times a day]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43289/1/" /><id>43289</id><summary><![CDATA[Hospital staff told to make sure Muslim patients' beds face Mecca five times a day]]></summary><issued>2007-12-05T00:05:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-05T00:05:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The job of the nurse used to one of caring for the sick and needy. But not - it would seem - in today's politically-correct Britain. Now, nurses are being encouraged to spend valuable time turning around the beds of Muslim patients up to five times a day - so they can face Mecca.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous teen in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25634/1/" /><id>25634</id><summary><![CDATA[The most dangerous teen in Britain]]></summary><issued>2007-06-29T06:17:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-29T06:17:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain's most dangerous teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a nurse to death because he was bored. <br/><br/>And the Americans thought they had a monopoly on psychos. ;)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Birds of Britain - video]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/3413/1/" /><id>3413</id><summary><![CDATA[Birds of Britain - video]]></summary><issued>2006-10-16T22:38:18+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-16T22:38:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 1970s spoof documentary that is very silly.  Well worth the watch.<br/><br/>Dirty bird.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Big Brother: The Google cars that will photograph EVERY front door in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/68396/1/" /><id>68396</id><summary><![CDATA[Big Brother: The Google cars that will photograph EVERY front door in Britain]]></summary><issued>2008-07-11T03:42:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-11T03:42:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Plans by Google to photograph millions of British homes and publish them online have been condemned as a 'gross invasion of privacy'.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fourth rare donkey born at farm in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20793/1/" /><id>20793</id><summary><![CDATA[Fourth rare donkey born at farm in Britain]]></summary><issued>2007-05-19T12:24:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-19T12:24:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The fourth foal of a breed of donkey rarer than the giant panda has been born in the space of a fortnight at a British farm.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain vulnerable to alien attacks!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/5506/1/" /><id>5506</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain vulnerable to alien attacks!]]></summary><issued>2006-11-10T07:49:51+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-10T07:49:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No... I mean REAL aliens! Thin grey men in flying ships and everything. FLEE! Run for your lives!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britons found to be most annoying fliers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30499/1/" /><id>30499</id><summary><![CDATA[Britons found to be most annoying fliers]]></summary><issued>2007-08-07T01:26:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-07T01:26:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A poll has shown that people from Britain are the most likely to be least friendly, snore the loudest and annoy cabin crew during airplane flights.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Big Brother Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/72432/1/" /><id>72432</id><summary><![CDATA[Big Brother Britain]]></summary><issued>2008-08-15T04:33:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-15T04:33:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[From the piece: Local authorities are to be given the power to access all the details of everyone&#8217;s personal text messages, emails, phone calls, and internet use under Home Office proposals published yesterday. Ministers want to make it mandatory for telephone and internet companies to keep details of all personal internet traffic for at least 12 months so it can be accessed for investigations into crime or other threats to public safety.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>Welcome to 1984, and it looks like it's here to stay. Irrespective of the supposed 'security' such measures will bring, I did not ask for, nor do I want, such intrusion into my life.]]></content></entry></feed>