Focusing on the Scottish people, this title takes us on a journey around their homel&, discovering en route the intriguing & surprising ways the places & their history contribute to the Scottish character. It reveals the traditions, triumphs & disasters, foibles, quirks & customs that come together to make up the Scottish people. ...

Packed with legends, firsts, birthplaces, inventions & adventures, this work talks about the thirteen traditional Welsh counties. It aims to unearth the hidden gems that they each hold. It stands as a pantheon of writers & artists, thinkers & inventors, heroes & villains who have lived & toiled in this small country. ...

From England's largest vale & northern Europe's largest gothic cathedral to Britain's oldest city, Yorkshire is home to some of Britain's best architecture, most ravishing scenery & is the cradle of some of our country's most influential & individual characters. This book takes us on a journey through the Britain's largest county. ...

Buddy movie taken to extremes. New York firefighters Chuck Levine (Adam Sandler) & Larry Valentine (Kevin James) live different lives. Whilst Chuck is a self-confessed lothario out for a good time, Larry is a widower struggling to keep a regular home life for the sake of his two young children. With Larry refusing to take up life as a single parent & deal with his loss, he forgets to change the primary beneficiary of his pension from his wife to his children before the cut-off date, which would financially protect them in the event of a work injury. The only solution is to get married again, but Larry decides there's no other woman he could trust enough with his children's future. During a routine search of a burning house, Larry saves Chuck's life in an accident & Chuck is forever indebted to his best mate as they awake in hospital. Evaluating his predicament whilst in his sick bed, Larry finds an article about a same-sex domestic partnership & realises Chuck could pay his debt quicker than anticipated! After wearing Chuck down, they eventually get hitched in a bizarre Las Vegas wedding chapel & just when they settle in to a scene of same-sex domestic bliss for the sake of the kids, they soon realise that their gay union is going to be under serious scrutiny from surprise inspector Clinton Fitzer (Steve Buscemi), who is always ready to catch out straight guys cheating the system. ...

Trio of Adam Sandler films. In 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry' (2007), New York firefighters Chuck Levine (Sandler) & Larry Valentine (Kevin James) live different lives. Whilst Chuck is a self-confessed lothario out for a good time, Larry is a widower struggling to keep a regular home life for the sake of his two young children. With Larry refusing to take up life as a single parent & deal with his loss, he forgets to change the primary beneficiary of his pension from his wife to his children before the cut-off date, which would financially protect them in the event of a work injury. The only solution is to get married again, but Larry decides there's no other woman he could trust enough with his children's future. During a routine search of a burning house, Larry saves Chuck's life in an accident & Chuck is forever indebted to his best mate as they awake in hospital. Evaluating his predicament whilst in his sick bed, Larry finds an article about a same-sex domestic partnership & realises Chuck could pay his debt quicker than anticipated! After wearing Chuck down, they eventually get hitched in a bizarre Las Vegas wedding chapel & just when they settle in to a scene of same-sex domestic bliss for the sake of the kids, they soon realise that their gay union is going to be under serious scrutiny from surprise inspector Clinton Fitzer (Steve Buscemi), who is always ready to catch out straight guys cheating the system. In '50 First Dates' (2004), Drew Barrymore stars as Lucy Whitmore, a beautiful woman suffering from acute short-term memory loss. After a car accident several months before, she has been left with a rare brain condition that causes her memory to be totally erased every night when she goes to sleep. Adam Sandler plays Henry Roth, a vet who works at the aquarium in the Hawaiian resort where Lucy is living a quiet life with her over-protective father (Blake Clark) & goofy brother (Sean Astin). Henry usually spends his summers seducing a string of female tourists that he'll never see again
- but when he meets Lucy he realises he's found something special, & resolves to give up his promiscuous, non-committal lifestyle. The only problem is, when he meets her again the next day, she hasn't got a clue who he is. Henry embarks on an elaborate quest to win her heart, with the help of his stoner best friend Ula (Rob Schneider). Dan Akroyd makes a cameo appearance as Lucy's doctor. Finally, in ' Mr Deeds' (2002), an updating of the 1936 Frank Capra classic ' Mr Deeds Goes to Town', Adam Sandler takes on the Gary Cooper role of smalltown poet & pizzeria owner, Longfellow Deeds, who inherits $40 billion from his uncle & sets off for New York to take over his new business empire, bringing his smalltown values with him. Television reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) poses as an innocent smalltown girl in order to dig up any dirt on him, but despite her best efforts, finds him to be nothing other than a gentleman, & even falls for him.
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