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Today is Shrove Tuesday, a time when the faithful went to confession and were granted absolution (being "shriven"), just before the start of Lent.  As the Church forbade the use of butter, sugar and eggs, among other things, during Lent, these ingredients had to be used up - no refrigeration in t...

The usual culprit - Hallmark Cards!  The Gringe may have stolen Christmas, but it was Hallmark who stole St. Valentine's Day.The origin of the celebration of St. Valentine's Day is generally accepted as the commemoration of the martyrdom of a Christian priest called Valentine, who was executed by...

Everyone knows that Google has complex algorithms that it uses to help to assess the value of results to be returned in a search. What is not so widely known is that Google also employs a number of companies to provide manual reviews by their employees.These reviewers are given a set of quality g...