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Margaret Thatcher's Rigorous Diet Secret: Eggs

By Terence NeilanJan 31st 2010 – 4:33PM
Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

(Jan. 31) -- Margaret Thatcher's uncommon determination wasn't only reflected in her becoming Britain's prime minister by buttering up the bourgeoisie and undoing the unions. She also managed to lose 20 pounds in two weeks by eating 56 eggs. According to revealing personal papers published on Saturday, as the Iron Lady...

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Margaret Thatcher Lookalike Stars In Taiwanese Ad

By Asa Bennett May 15th 2012 - 04:28AM

Admirers may be surprised to see the Iron Lady appears to have made a new career move - promoting compterized airconditioning units.

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Margaret Thatcher Hoax: Death Of Ex-Prime Minister Of Great Britain Publicized By Unlikely Source

By Christian Cotroneo May 09th 2012 - 05:17PM

An erroneous report of the "death" of Margaret Thatcher, the prominent ex-prime minister of Great Britain, was mistakenly publicized today by the most unlikely source.

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  • 05/29/12 Government U-turns: the laddie's for turning Source: The Guardian - London - UK The U-turn gained its peculiar place in Tory psychology with a joke that Margaret Thatcher told – very possibly without understanding it.
  • 05/29/12 Postal services: stamped upon Source: The Guardian - London - UK In Margaret Thatcher's time, the early arguments over the privatisation of key public services were so heated, so polarised, that even the most disengaged voter would have had an idea about what was at stake.
  • 05/29/12 Thirty-six years of failure: a brief history of... Source: Redding.com - Redding CA The 1988 conference...put climate change on the global agenda and proposed a specific initial target for a global reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases - 20% below 1988 levels by 2005 - on the way to a much larger ultimate reduction, to be set following further research and debate."
  • 05/26/12 Housing upheaval can be traced back to Thatcher Source: LabourList.org If further evidence was needed that the Government is destroying our communities then it came by the bucket load with proposals to relocate hundreds of housing benefit claimants.
  • 05/22/12 The Iron Lady Source: The Bulletin - Bend OR Some movies arrive pre-stamped with a consensus opinion.

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