Tapped for success: Boozy pipe dream becomes reality for Belgian beer lovers
A boozy pipe dream became reality for beer lovers in Belgium today as a Bruges brewery poured its first glass of ale delivered through a 2 mile-long long underground pipeline from an out-of-town...
View ArticleBelgian brewery's pipe dream brings relief to medieval Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium: A Belgian brewery is turning on the taps of a pipeline buried beneath the medieval city of Bruges to transport its beer to a bottling plant some 3 km away. Four years in planning and...
View ArticleBeer pipeline today, chocolate pipeline tomorrow?
Forget oil pipelines. This is one we can all agree on: a 3.2-km beer pipeline. The $4.5-million pipeline opens this summer in Bruges, Belgium, -- running beer from De Halve Maan brewery to its brew pub...
View ArticleBelgian Brewery's Underground Beer Pipeline Is Nearly Finished
An underground pipeline built to deliver beer to the people of Belgium is almost complete. When local brewery De Halve Maan, or The Half Moon, moved its bottling facilities two miles away from the...
View ArticleBeer pipeline chugs suds under historic Belgian town
BRUGES, BELGIUM — Beer-loving Belgians dove deep into their pockets and deep under the cobblestone streets of the historical city of Bruges to create world's first beer pipeline. Instead of hundreds of...
View ArticleCheers! The world's first beer pipeline is now open
A beer pipeline. It sounds like an ale lover's wildest dream. It's no longer a fantasy in the Belgian city of Bruges, where the world's first beer pipeline opened last week. The two-mile pipe connects...
View ArticleCrowdfunded beer pipeline to protect medieval city of Bruges
BRUGES, Belgium — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch. With the help of crowdfunding efforts among some 400 Madman fans, the...
View ArticleFairytale fables
Leisure travel In this world, especially in India, the magnetism of megalopolises dazzles today’s traveller. But, today, a Rome-Paris-London-Amsterdam itinerary finds a place in the attic of the...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass statues proposed
Two leading Maryland lawmakers on Friday proposed commissioning statues of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to be placed inside the Maryland State House. Senate President Thomas V....
View ArticlePolitics and ethnicity in Liberia
Opinion By Dagbayonoh Kiah Nyanfore II, USA. The use of ethnicity in elections is not strange in Liberian political history. For instance, Liberian former president, William V.S. Tubman and his...
View ArticleThe meaning of the Fourth of July
Frederick Douglass On July 5, 1852, the abolitionist, author and escaped slave Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to a gathering in Rochester, N.Y., that has lived on as a powerful and provocative...
View ArticleDurham Releases #BullCity Running Man Challenge Video
Wildin Acosta, the high school student who had been in federal immigration custody since January, was released Friday after his parents posted a $10,000 bond in Charlotte, a Latino advocacy group...
View Article"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
On July 5, 1852, Douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, held at Rochester's Corinthian Hall. It was biting oratory, in which the speaker told...
View Article#ICYMI: Popular Stories in Tech This Week (Week of June 27) (Flipboard Inc)
(Source: Flipboard Inc) Jessica Elsey / July 1, 2016 A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the...
View ArticleNeighborhoods: African-American history and more in Harlem
By Beth J. Harpaz / The Associated PressNEW YORK — Decades of African-American history have made Harlem one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. It’s also an essential destination for visitors to...
View ArticleTop 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition
Top 10 Conservative Idiots #3-9: 2 Fiery 2 Furious Edition Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Be sure to ask about our special low monthly payment plans and 1.9% APR financing with special...
View ArticleWhy Are Rabbis Throwing Away Their Shot To Speak Truth to Trump?
“We are human beings that live in and with others and through others. History has spoken!” The decision most mainstream American rabbinic organizations made after Charlottesville not to join President...
View ArticleMay 07, 2015CI to graduate over 2,000 students (California State University,...
(Source: California State University, Channel Islands) Camarillo, Calif., May 7, 2015 - More than 2,000 CSU Channel Islands (CI) candidates for graduation will receive degrees in separate morning and...
View ArticleReading Comprehension Worksheet 10
Like anything else at which you'd like to become skilled, reading comprehension requires a little bit of practice. To become a solid reader, one who understands what he or she reads, you'll need to get...
View ArticleHow Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
In the early days of the United States, colonists imported from England a set of regulations that were ostensibly meant to maintain the public peace. They were called, collectively, “common scold”...
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