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Kitty Kola – A Swedish Softdrink

Kitty Kola is a cola-flavoured soft drink. It  is produced in Sweden and bottled by Kopparbergs Bryggeri, Sofiero Bryggeri, Fagerdals Bryggeri and Fågelfors Bryggeri & Läskedrycksfabrik.The beverage is also found overseas due to the ease of exportation. It has been seen in specialty markets in the United States and other nations and is largely sodas.

This beverage is a light brown with a slight foamy head when poured and is made with several natural juices to which water, sugar, and flavorings have been added. Additional sugar and carbon dioxide are also added to the mixture. It also has added natural flavorings such as lime juice. Caffeine is added as well.

This popular cola comes in a 12 ounce bottle as well as larger, 20 ounce bottles and aluminum cans. It is a common drink with older adults, but is more heavily marketed to teens and young adults. One can contains as much caffeine as one cup of coffee.

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On This Day in 1975 – Missing Earl Guilty Of Murder

Lord Lucan murdered the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children, an inquest jury has decided. The earl has not been seen since the night Sandra Rivett died on 7 November 1974, and the jury of three women and six men returned the verdict in his absence.

A warrant committing him for trial at the Central Criminal Court was issued by Westminster Coroner Dr Gavin Thurston immediately after the decision. Scotland Yard detectives said they were "making active inquiries" abroad in an attempt to trace the disgraced peer – nicknamed "Lucky" because of past successes at the gambling table.

The court was told how the seventh earl of Lucan had beaten and killed Mrs Rivett with a lead pipe in the basement of their Lower Belgrave Street home and put her body in a mail sack.

Until these sightings run out we’ll continue to follow every one up    Police officer Roy Ranson

Lady Lucan said he later attacked and seriously injured her when she came to investigate why the family’s nanny was taking so long to make tea. The coroner told the inquest the motive for these attacks was a "matter of conjecture".

The peer’s estranged wife said in a statement she was relieved the case was over and now intended to put the matter behind her. "I cannot say that I am pleased or displeased with the verdict – I was only concerned with establishing the facts," she said.

Detective Chief Superintendent Roy Ranson said outside court he thought it unlikely the missing earl was still alive, but told reporters it would not affect the inquiry into the murder. "We’re still looking for Lord Lucan all over the world and until these sightings run out we’ll continue to follow every one up," he said.

In Context
Lord Lucan was the last person to be declared a murderer by an inquest jury – the procedure was outlawed by the 1977 Criminal Law Act. The earl’s version of events – as told to friend Susan Maxwell-Davis before he disappeared – was that he intervened in a struggle between an unknown assailant and his wife.

Others contend he hired a hitman to kill his wife, who then murdered Mrs Rivett by mistake. The case has never been examined in a criminal trial.

He was officially declared dead in October 1999 – possibly by suicide on the night of the murder – but his body has never been found.

From BBC Home’s “On This Day”

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Dr. Enuf Lemon-Lime Flavored Softdrink

Dr. Enuf is a brand of soft drink bottled by Tri-City Beverage in Johnson City, Tennessee. It is a lemon-lime flavored drink (though its taste is different from common lemon-lime sodas such as Sprite or 7-up), and is fortified with several water-soluble vitamins. Its marketing slogan is "Enuf is Enough!"

Dr. Enuf’s origins date back to 1949, when a Chicago businessman named William Mark Swartz was urged by coworkers to formulate a soft drink fortified with vitamins as an alternative to sugar sodas full of empty calories. He developed an "energy booster" drink containing B vitamins, caffeine and cane sugar. After placing a notice in a trade magazine seeking a bottler, he formed a partnership with Charles Gordon of Tri-Cities Beverage to produce and distribute the soda.

Early product heritage with Mountain Dew
Early in its development, Dr. Enuf was reported to have several therapeutic effects, including the easing of stomach pains, relief from hangovers and a clearing of the mind. One interesting note is that one of the early advertised uses of Dr. Enuf, curing hangovers, coincided with Tri-City Beverage’s other soft drink at the time, a drink mixer called Mountain Dew. (Tri-City Beverage later sold the rights to Mountain Dew to Pepsi, but kept the Dr. Enuf brand.)

The drink is still produced to this day by Tri-Cities Beverage. Dr. Enuf is available in original, Diet, Herbal and Diet Herbal varieties. A bottle of any of the varieties contains at least 80% of the recommended daily nutritional requirement of thiamine (Vitamin B1), niacin (Vitamin B3), potassium and iodine. The herbal varieties also contain ginseng and guarana, and are cherry flavored. For a short time in the fall of 2007 Dr. Enuf bottles were clear instead of the usual green color.

Where to find Dr. Enuf
Dr. Enuf is widely distributed in the Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City region of Northeast Tennessee, plus parts of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina.

While hard to find, Dr. Enuf is available in select locations throughout the Southeast as well as at many Cracker Barrel locations throughout the country.

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On This Day In 1963 – Soviets Launch First Woman Into Space

A former textile worker from the Soviet Union has become the first woman in space. Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth’s orbit when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched at 1230 Moscow time. Moscow Television broadcast the first pictures of the elated blonde – code-named Seagull – ninety minutes later.

One of the main purposes of her mission is to attempt the first docking manoeuvre with another spaceship. Colonel Valery Bykovsky was completing his 32nd orbit in the Vostok V – launched two days ago – when Lt Tereshkova hurtled into space from the secret Russian launch pad in Baikonur, central Asia.

At one time the two spacecrafts – which were in radio contact with each other as well as the ground – were only three miles apart, but they are reported to be drifting further apart.

Khrushchev’s acclaim
Russian Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev had a radio conversation with the female cosmonaut. He congratulated her on her achievement and spoke of his "fatherly pride" for her.

By 2000 BST Ms Tereshkova had completed 23 circuits of the globe – one more than the longest-flying US spaceman, Gordon Cooper – at a distance of between 114 miles (183km) and 145 miles (232km) with an average 88.3 minutes for each orbit. Thousands of jubilant women gathered in Red Square, Moscow, to celebrate the occasion.

 A special issue of Soviet newspaper Pravda said Ms Tereshkova had dreamed of going into space as soon as she heard about the first man in space, Colonel Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961. Ms Tereshkova – an amateur parachutist – joined the space programme last March.

Col Gagarin said she was popular with the other cosmonauts and their wives and described her "kind eyes and good-natured smile". Russian scientists also hope to analyse the comparative effects of space travel on a man and a woman.

In Context
Lt Tereshkova and Col Bykovsky landed safely by parachute two days later in Kazakhstan, several hundred miles from where they had taken off. Ms Tereshkova had completed 49 orbits of the Earth – 1,250,000 miles – in two days, 22 hours and fifty minutes.

Mr Bykovsky set a new record for time in space, completing 82 orbits – 2,060,000 miles – in four days, 23 hours and 54 minutes, 25 hours and 32 minutes longer than the previous record holder. Ms Tereshkova was feted by the Soviet leadership and became active in the Communist Party. She never returned to space.

From BBC Home’s “On This Day”

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On This Day In 1959 – Hovercraft Marks New Era In Transport

A revolutionary new form of transport which can operate on sea and land has been officially launched in the Solent, off England’s south coast. The Hovercraft, which has been described as a cross between an aircraft, a boat and a land vehicle, was invented by boat-builder Christopher Cockerell. Dubbed a "man-made flying saucer", the hovercraft is propelled on a cushion of air created by its own fan power.

It therefore hovers just above the waves at sea and avoids any irregular surfaces on land. Christopher Cockerell, from Lowestoft, began working on a hovercraft model in the mid-1950s. He said he first came up with the idea when he was thinking how to make a boat go faster by reducing the amount of friction caused when it travels through the water. He first tested the ‘hover’ theory using a cat food tin inside a coffee tin, with an industrial air blower and a pair of kitchen scales.

In 1955 he convinced the Ministry of Supply to back him but he was not able to commercially develop the product immediately as his idea had been placed on the government’s secret list because of its potential benefits to the military. In 1959 Cockerell managed to get his idea removed from the secret list and formed the Hovercraft Development Company Ltd. He obtained funding from the National Research Development Council of £150,000 to develop the project.

A contract to build the first Hovercraft was awarded to Saunders Roe, the flying boat firm at Cowes, at the beginning of this year. The SRN-1, an experimental model, is 29 feet long and 24 feet wide and weighs 6,600lb. Following today’s launch of the SRN-1 hovercraft in the Solent, Saunders Roe announced it is now planning a prototype up to ten times as big and weighing 40 tons.

The hovercraft, which has controls very similar to those in a helicopter, can reach speeds of up to 25-knots and it is hoped that at some stage in the future it will be able to cross the English Channel in as little as 20 minutes.

In Context
Sir Christopher Cockerell died on 1 June 1999. Within weeks of its launch the Hovercraft crossed the English Channel from Calais to Dover. On 26 July it left Calais at 4.49am and arrived in Dover at 6.45am.

Since then more than 80 million people and 12 million cars have crossed the channel by hovercraft. The cross-channel service was stopped in October 2000 due to increased competition from ferries and the channel tunnel The use of an air cushion to speed ships was considered as early as the 18th century.

Sir John Thornycroft got as far as patenting an early design in the mid 1870s but engines that produced enough power to make hovercrafts practical were not available until this century. Hovercrafts are still widely used in areas where land surface is uneven or sea levels low.

From BBC Home’s “On This Day”

Cott Sodas

The Cott Corporation (TSX: BCB NYSE: COT) is a leading supplier of private label carbonated soft drinks distributing to Canada, the United States, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Europe. In addition to producing many private-label beverages for retailers, Cott also has a large and growing portfolio of its own brands. These brands include Cott, RC (excluding North America, where it is part of Dr Pepper Snapple Group), Ben Shaws, Stars & Stripes, Vintage and Vess soft drinks. Recently, Cott has been expanding its product line into ready-to-drink teas, sparkling and flavoured waters, sports and energy drinks, juice drinks and smoothies. These newer Cott brands include Orient Emporium, GL-7, Red Rain Energy and After Shock Energy.

The history of Cott goes back to 1923, when Cott Beverage Corporation was founded by Solomon Cott, a Polish immigrant, and his son Harry, in Port Chester, New York. Harry Pencer, a clothier from Montreal, Canada, began to import Cott sodas into Quebec, Canada, in 1952. In 1955 Pencer acquired the Canadian rights to the Cott label and established Cott Beverages (Canada) Ltd., to bottle the Cott line of sodas. From 1976 to 1991, Cott expanded its distribution throughout Canada and back into the United States and into Europe. During the 1960s and 1970s, labels for its products were printed with the punning slogan "It’s Cott to be good". Vess Beverage assets and its division, Vess Specialty Packaging Company, was purchased in 1994. In 1969, the name was changed to Cott Beverages Ltd., and in 1991 to Cott Corporation.

From 1992 to 1996, Cott was headed by Heather Reisman, founder of Indigo Books & Music.

In October 2000, Concord Beverages, with its Vintage brand seltzer water, was acquired from Honickman Group. In April 2007, Cott was said to be considering a bid for Cadbury Schweppes soft drinks business. In 2007, in conjunction with the premiere of the The Simpsons Movie, Cott partnered with 7-Eleven to produce "Buzz Cola", a fictional soda found in the The Simpsons television series. In late February 2008, Cott was served notice by its key customer, Wal-Mart, that shelf space for some soft drinks made by Cott for the world’s largest retailer would be cut back. Nearly a year later in January 2009, Wal-Mart informed Cott it was terminating a 10-year-old pact under which Cott had been supplying the company with store-branded soft drinks.

In July 2010, Cott announced its acquisition of Cliffstar Corporation, a U.S. supplier of store-branded beverages.

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On This Day In 1963 – Dr Stephen Ward Charged Over ‘Immoral Earnings’

A key figure in the Profumo affair has been charged with living on immoral earnings. Dr Stephen Ward, a London osteopath and friend of Christine Keeler, was arrested in Watford and taken to Marylebone Lane police station. The arrest comes three days after the resignation of the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo.

He admitted he had lied to parliament after MPs accused him of having a relationship with Miss Keeler, a 21-year-old call girl. MPs also allege that Miss Keeler had relations with a Russian naval attaché and that the affair posed a risk to national security.

Profumo’s resignation is a “great tragedy”.
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

‘Extremely cheerful’
Dr Ward has not been allowed bail but his literary agent, Pelham Pound, said he was “confident” he would be freed after his court appearance scheduled for Monday 13 June. Mr Pound visited Dr Ward at the police station and described him as “extremely cheerful”. He had earlier collected some of Dr Ward’s belongings from his Bryanston Mews home in Marylebone.

Last night detectives searched his former flat at Wimpole Mews and took away some items in a brown paper parcel. Dr Ward has been charged with living on the “earnings of prostitution” at 17 Wimpole Mews since 1 January 1961.

The son of the late Canon Arthur Evelyn Ward, Canon of Rochester Cathedral, Dr Ward has treated such illustrious names as Sir Winston Churchill, Paul Getty, Douglas Fairbanks and Elizabeth Taylor. He is also an artist and has had members of the Royal Family and politicians sit for him.

In Context
The Profumo affair was the biggest political sleaze story of the decade and threatened to topple the Conservative government under Harold Macmillan. It also scandalised the nation, especially after sordid details of Dr Stephen Ward’s lifestyle and his relationship with Christine Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies came out at his trial.

Keeler, who lived with Ward at his Wimpole Mews flat, said he had introduced her to Lord Astor at his Cliveden stately home where she first met John Profumo.

On the last day of the trial on 31 July 1963, Ward took an overdose of sleeping tablets. He was found guilty while in a coma and died three days later. Less than two months after his death, an official report produced by Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls, concluded Profumo’s affair with Keeler had not endangered national security.

Shortly after this, the prime minister resigned, his ill health exacerbated by the scandal. He was replaced with Earl Home, who renounced his peerage to become Sir Alec Douglas-Home in order to take up office.

From BBC Home’s “On This Day”