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The first user of ZAT, Rowntree's of the U.K., launched Fruit Pastil-Lolly, a cross between a lollipop and an ice cream, the first sugar confectionery brand in the U.K. ice cream sector. White ...
Badr, Muhammad al-
Yemeni king and imam who came to power in 1962 but was almost immediately overthrown during an Egyptian-backed coup; after his numerous attempts to restore the monarchy failed, he went into exile in ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
Iceland Frozen Foods of the U.K. launched a range of flavoured vegetables for children that included chocolate-flavoured carrots and pizza-flavoured sweet corn. In Italy La Faraona introduced a ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
Ethnic dishes, especially Mexican-style foods, became more popular around the world.Seni Pramoj, Mom Rajawong
Thai diplomat and politician whose refusal to honour Japanese demands that he deliver a Thai declaration of war against the U.S. and the U.K. during World War II kept the U.S. from attacking Thailand ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
Nestle SA of Switzerland retained its position as the world's largest food producer, its sales increasing by 3.4% in the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, 1995. Nestle sold Wine World Estates, which ...
Agriculture and Food Supplies
In March the U.K. announced a possible link between BSE, or "mad cow" disease, which was primarily found in the U.K., and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare but fatal condition in humans. Though the ...
UNITED KINGDOM
Throughout 1993 the U.K. continued to send humanitarian aid to the former Yugoslavia and to resist calls for other forms of military intervention. More British troops were sent to assist the ...
Military Affairs
(For a comparison of approximate strengths of selected regular armed forces, see Table III.) The defense budget for 1993 totaled 23.5 billion. Modernization of the U.K.'s national nuclear forces ...
McIlkenny, Richard
Northern Irish-born factory worker (b. Dec. 22, 1933, Belfast, N.Ire.-d. May 21, 2006, Dublin, Ire.), was one of the Birmingham Six, who were wrongly convicted of a 1974 pub bombing in which 21 ...
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