Daily Archives: August 22, 2006

Fights, Love and Lust on the Island

It’s all kicking off on the Fiji Love Island. Yesterday brought about arguments, kissing, evictions and a punch up! Sophie seems smitten for the 3rd or is it the 4th time on the Island having fallen from Brendan Cole’s charms. Sophie who decided the pairings for the final week chose Brendan as her partner and it soon paid dividends winning the daily decider in emphatic style. Speaking in the beach hut Sophie was carried away with the love bug stating Brendan “ticks all the boxes”! Only time will tell if this relationship is doomed to failure like her previous ones on the Island. She does seem a little chilled out at the moment which has to be a good thing.

Lee and Brendan have had a punch up following a day drinking on a luxurious yacht filled to capacity with gorgeous models and drink and given their past arguments it was inevitable that things would kick off travelling in close proximity. Lee fell asleep in the limousine and was suddenly awoken by Chris kicking him (accidentally) in the face. Lee let rip and Brendan gave him a few home truths. Drink got the better of the youngster and he traded insult after insult, finally giving way to his physical urges and punched Brendan! Brendan retaliated and caused his a swollen ear, the Kiwi coming out on top in the first round!!

Back at the resort all of the guys had had enough of Lee’s antics and at one point Calum told Lee to F*ck right off. Later in the evening he went up to Brendan to apologise but the prat wouldn’t let thing lie even though Brendan accepted his apologies and said “let’s just leave it”. He couldn’t could he, nope, he went on and on and …

Joe Rosenthal Dies Aged 94

Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who took the soul-stirring picture of the World War II flag-raising on Iwo Jima, died Sunday at the age of 94. The committee who awarded him the Pulitzer Prize for that photo in 1945 described it as “depicting one of the war’s great moments,” a “frozen flash of history.” Some consider it to be one of the most famous photos ever taken.

On February 23, 1945, during the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Division caputred the strategic crest of Mount Suribachi and raised the U.S. flag – the image captured in the famous photo. Unfortunately, by the end of the battle of Iwo Jima just over a month later, three of the six men seen raising the flag in the famous Rosenthal photo had died in combat.…

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