$9,000 ring awaits lovelorn Sarkozy.A JEWELLER who became the talk of his town in Romania for sending gifts to famous people has a new item on offer: a ring he hopes French President Nicolas Sarkozy might buy for girlfriend Carla Bruni during his visit to the country on Monday. Ovidiu Paraianu, who was forced to give up working as a coal miner after losing an eye in a work accident, has put the finishing touches finishing touches finish npl the finishing touches → der letzte Schliff finishing touches npl → ultimi ritocchi mpl on the ring. The band of rubies, sapphires and diamonds in the colours of the French flag could be Sarkozy's for $9,000. Paraianu seems to be counting on the local media attention to attract Sarkozy's eye to the offer and perhaps entice him to visit his town of Targu Jiu, 300km west of the capital. In the centre of the ring he has set a miniature copy of a sculpture by the late Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi Noun 1. Constantin Brancusi - Romanian sculptor noted for abstractions of animal forms (1876-1957) Brancusi , who lived and worked in France. Paraianu, 55, said even if Sarkozy does not buy the ring, he will still honour him with a golden key, also shaped like one of Brancusi's works. Paraianu has also sent golden keys to Britain's Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth, or Elizabeth, may refer to: Living people
Bohemia Bills row raises a stink A supplier's anger over unpaid bills forced judges and lawyers at a courthouse in the Belgian city of Bruges to bring their own toilet paper to work. "There have been unpaid bills since June ... it is unacceptable," said Justice Ministry spokesman Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. de Bock Noun 1. bock - a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring bock beer lager beer, lager - a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally . "Magistrates actually judge people who don't pay their bills." He said steps would be taken to prevent a recurrence. Poles feast to fast Lengthy queues grew in front of pastry shops in Warsaw on "Fat Thursday" as Poles bought-up lip-smacking, plump traditional Polish "paczki pacz·ki n. pl. paczki A round Polish pastry similar to a doughnut, usually filled with fruit and topped with sugar or icing. [Polish p " ahead of the Christian period of Lent or fasting, ahead of the Easter holiday. "It a great excuse to eat as many doughnuts as you want," Marzena, 31, said. "Ten isn't too many today," said Marzena, a Warsaw lawyer. She had been waiting for well over an hour in a 200-person queue in front of a popular shop in the city's swish central Nowy Swiat shopping street. "It's a very pleasant tradition - but you can't exaggerate and eat too many or there will be serious consequences," said 70-year-old optician optician, filler of prescriptions for and dispenser of corrective lenses. An optician may grind lenses as instructed by the prescription of an optometrist (see optometry) or ophthalmologist (see ophthalmology) or transcribe the instructions for laboratory mechanics. Wojtek, adding that queuing on Fat Thursday was a "family tradition." Instead of having holes in the middle like their North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. cousins, Polish "paczki" - pronounced "ponch-key" - are ball-like affairs, filled with jam made from wild cherries or rose petals. Copyright [c] 2008 Gulf Daily News Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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