In the latter portion of this period, the country was assailed by famine and pestilence - — a fearful visitation which will be noticed hereafter in its order of date, and of which it would be out of place to say more at present.

In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.

Angus felt fantastic to have made it around the Island and beaten the record.

The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social order to an ultra-liberal model - at the cost of millions of jobs, abrupt social decline and significant threats to democracy itself.