New promotional events set for Disney’s “Phineas and Ferb’s Christmas Vacation”

Sunday, November 15, 2009 Further promotional and release plans have been announced by The Walt Disney Company‘s new special, “Phineas and Ferb’s Christmas Vacation,” from the company’s cartoon comedy Phineas and Ferb. According to the company’s press release site (Disney XD Medianet), on November 27, Disney will stream the seven musical numbers, performed by the […]

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Wikinews Shorts: May 7, 2007

A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, May 7, 2007. A 30 meter section of a gas pipeline in Luka (near Kiev) in Ukraine has been destroyed by an explosion. Although supplies to Europe via this pipeline have stopped, Ukrainian Energy Minister Georgi E. Boyko said that supplies to Europe would not be affected. “There […]

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Dozens arrested in leadup to St Petersburg G8 Summit

Wednesday, July 12, 2006 A G8 summit has been planned to take place from 15-17 July in St Petersburg, Russia. Several sources have reported that a systematic police crackdown on people participating in alternative meetings (a Libertarian Forum and the Russian Social Forum) and critical of the official meeting has begun almost a week prior […]

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High percentage of US patients on placebos without knowing it

Friday, January 4, 2008 A new study amongst doctors in the United States on the use of placebos—pills with no medical effect—shows that almost half of the questioned practitioners prescribe placebos, most of them within the last year. The majority of 466 faculty physicians at Chicago-area medical schools interviewed by a research group of the […]

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History Of A Fashion Icon: The Story Of Gucci

More Detail Here: Western World Saddlery Site History of a Fashion Icon: The Story of Gucci by Jessica Lavender A Modest Beginning It s hard to believe that such a prestigious international fashion icon had such humble beginnings! In 1906, Guccio Gucci started a small saddlery shop in Florence, Italy. Born into a family with […]

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