<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Britain : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain greenlights first eco towns]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/128116/1/" /><id>128116</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain greenlights first eco towns]]></summary><issued>2009-07-17T01:57:13+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-17T01:57:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain gave the green light Thursday to four so-called &quot;eco towns,&quot; claiming it is playing a leading role globally in promoting carbon neutral communities.<br/><br/>&quot;The revolutionary concept of eco towns is a unique opportunity for us to confront two of the most urgent priorities&quot; facing Britain, namely providing more cheaper housing and fighting climate change.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hitler's pub dart bomb: The secret Nazi weapon drawn up to terrorise Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/84295/1/" /><id>84295</id><summary><![CDATA[Hitler's pub dart bomb: The secret Nazi weapon drawn up to terrorise Britain]]></summary><issued>2008-12-11T04:58:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-11T04:58:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With deadly accuracy and at speeds of up to 700mph, it could have pinpointed Nazi targets and wreaked havoc on Britain. At least, that is what German scientists believed as they plotted this weapon of terror.]]></content></entry><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[It&#8217;s blast-off Britain as ban on space flight ends]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/128348/1/" /><id>128348</id><summary><![CDATA[It&#8217;s blast-off Britain as ban on space flight ends]]></summary><issued>2009-07-19T12:22:12+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-19T12:22:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain is finally &#8211; and officially &#8211; to put men and women into space. A government policy against sending Britons into orbit is to be reversed after almost a quarter of a century.<br/>Until now, British-born astronauts have had to &#8220;hitch&#8221; rides on American or Russian space missions.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Klingon keyboard goes on sale in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/89460/1/" /><id>89460</id><summary><![CDATA[Klingon keyboard goes on sale in Britain]]></summary><issued>2009-01-15T10:07:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-15T10:07:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Star Trek-themed keyboard featuring letters from the Klingon alphabet has gone on sale in Britain. The keyboard has been designed for the thousands of science fiction fans who have learned to talk and write in the alien language, which is spoken by the Klingon warrior race.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain invaded by power-crazed super-ants that cause blackouts and fires]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129769/1/" /><id>129769</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain invaded by power-crazed super-ants that cause blackouts and fires]]></summary><issued>2009-08-03T06:30:45+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-03T06:30:45+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain has been invaded by hordes of foreign kamikaze ants that cause blackouts - due to their obsession with electricity.  <br/><br/>The first colony of lasius neglectus - the Asian super-ant - recorded in the UK has been found at one of the National Trust's most historic buildings. They can't resist electricity and swarms can zap cables, leading to blazes.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain wants to ban rampant foreign plants]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115055/1/" /><id>115055</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain wants to ban rampant foreign plants]]></summary><issued>2009-05-17T21:54:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-17T21:54:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It may not quite match the Day Of The Triffids. But Britain is being invaded by an army of alien plants.<br/>Ministers are so concerned about the threat from foreign imports that choke rivers, smother ponds and force out native species that they want to ban the sale of 15 of the worst offenders.]]></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[First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/123869/1/" /><id>123869</id><summary><![CDATA[First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain]]></summary><issued>2009-06-18T03:34:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-18T03:34:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The first &#8220;anti-stab&#8221; knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.]]></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[War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with nuclear attack]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/125781/1/" /><id>125781</id><summary><![CDATA[War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with nuclear attack]]></summary><issued>2009-06-24T18:45:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-24T18:45:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[New details of how Britain would have been governed in the event of a nuclear war from the 1960s into the 1990s have been disclosed with the publication of the secret War Book.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Britain unveils new medal for families of 8,000 military dead since World War II]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/126335/1/" /><id>126335</id><summary><![CDATA[Britain unveils new medal for families of 8,000 military dead since World War II]]></summary><issued>2009-07-01T13:27:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-01T13:27:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Britain unveiled a new medal Wednesday that will be offered to families of about 8,000 military personnel killed on active duty or in terrorist attacks since World War II.<br/>~Theme pic is NOT the medal, couldn't find it.~]]></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[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 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[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[Viene una tormenta]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/53648/1/" /><id>53648</id><summary><![CDATA[Viene una tormenta]]></summary><issued>2008-03-09T21:05:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-09T21:05:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[He said there's a storm coming in.<br/><br/>Storm winds of up to 80mph are due to hit Britain tonight in what is predicted to be the worst storm of the winter.]]></content></entry></items></xml>