BRITAIN Briefing.SHOPPERS will enjoy unprecedented reductions from Christmas Eve as retailers face up to the prospect of a gloomy 2009, analysts said today. Stores are launching their Boxing Day sales up to 48 hours early. A growing list of major stores have announced discounts of 50% or more in sales to start as early as 7am on Christmas Eve. A TAPE recording of a "drunk" John Lennon Noun 1. John Lennon - English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980) Lennon slurring his way through his version of a rock 'n' roll song has sold at auction for EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 36,000 (pounds 24,000). The never-publicly-heard cassette was made in 1973 by the former Beatle has him substituting original lyrics with "debauched" amendments. It was sold as part of a collection of entertainment memorabilia which went under the hammer in Los Angeles yesterday. The six-minute recording has Lennon singing the 1957 Lloyd Price song Just Because. Auction house Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. The firm has London salerooms in New Bond Street and Knightsbridge. & Butterfields describe the singer as being "drunk". It was made during the period in which Lennon left his wife, Yoko Ono, and moved to Los Angeles. A MAN left totally blind by brain damage has astounded scientists by flawlessly navigating an obstacle course without the help of a cane. Experts believe it was the most dramatic demonstration yet of "blindsight blind·sight n. The ability of a blind person to sense the presence of a light source. " - the strange ability some blind people have to detect things. He walks with the aid of a stick to track obstacles, and has to be guided around buildings. Scientists investigating TN's blindsight ability constructed an obstacle course consisting of randomly arranged boxes. |
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