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The government made preparations to ration food in 1925, in advance of an expected general strike, and appointed Food Control Officers for each region.In the event, the trade unions of the London docks organised blockades by crowds, but convoys of lorries under military escort took the heart out of the strike, so that the measures did not have to be implemented.
"Possum Kingdom" is a song by American alternative rock band Toadies released as the second single from their 1994 album, Rubberneck. The song's origins lie in folklore from the band's native state of Texas. Possum Kingdom Lake is a lake in North Texas near Fort Worth. In the documentary "Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck", vocalist Vaden ...
Lightning Run is a custom Hyper GT-X steel roller coaster, created and manufactured by Chance Rides, located at Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky. Since its opening on May 24, 2014, Lightning Run is, to-date, the only operating Hyper GT-X model roller coaster in the world.
The first known cookie sales by an individual Girl Scout unit were by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in December 1917 at their local high school. [13] In 1922, the Girl Scout magazine The American Girl suggested cookie sales as a fundraiser and provided a simple sugar cookie recipe from a regional director for the Girl Scouts of Chicago. [14]
Kingdom is a comic series created by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson, published in the British comic anthology 2000 AD starting in 2006.. The story revolves around a humanoid genetically modified dog named after Gene Hackman, in the distant future.
The Kingdom is a 2007 action thriller film directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner. The film is set in Saudi Arabia , and is based on the 1996 bombing of the Khobar housing complex , also on the 2004 Khobar massacre and the two 2003 bombings of four compounds in Riyadh .
Afterward, the duo began their own website and small business "Savvy Super Saver", which helps them sell numerous coupons and generate profit. However, Ken Miller, a hapless loss prevention officer for the A&G Family Marts stores in the Southwestern United States, learns about the coupons and the losses several companies are taking ...
Jack is conscripted, but is declared mentally unfit after attacking his drill instructor. When Alfred White dies of a heart attack, his incompetent son Harry declares war on Jack. In the then biggest raid in British history, Jack steals ration coupons from the Romford Food Office, securing his reputation as King of London’s underworld.