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In Victorian London, Frederick Treves, a surgeon, discovers John Merrick in a freak show. He pays Bytes, Merrick's “owner” to have him at his hospital to study his deformities. On his return to Bytes, Merrick is badly beaten and asks for help from Treves who gives him shelter at the hospital. Nurses are frightened because of his appearance and Treves believes at first he is intellectually disabled, but soon discovers that he can speak and read. Merrick has tea with Treves and his wife and from then starts to get London's high society interested in him and visit him in his room where he builds a model of the cathedral he can see from his window. He even receives actress Madge Kendal who gives him a copy of Romeo and Juliet; the they play some lines from it and Kendal kisses Merrick. At the same time, a night porter named Jim starts selling tickets to locals who come at night to gawk at the Elephant Man. Some members of the hospital council consider that the hospital should not pay for Merrick's lodging, but he is guaranteed a permanent residence by Queen Victory, the hospital's royal patron. One night, during Jim's showing where they invade Merrick's room, Bytes kidnap him and forces him to play the Elephant Man in the circus, this time in Belgium. Merrick is ill and weak and unable to perform, so Bytes leaves him to die in a cage. He is however rescued by the other freaks who all flee in the night. Merrick travels back to London where he is first harassed at the train station before being returned to the hospital by policemen. Merrick recovers some of his health and even attends a performance of Kendal's at the theatre; Kendal addresses the audience who then applauds him. Back in his room at the hospital he finishes his cathedral models then lies down and dies (his was aware that, due to his deformities, lying down would cause asphyxiation).

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Chicago Surgeon Richard Kimble is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. He claims to be innocent and that his wife was killed by a man with a prosthetic arm, but the police is not able to find that man. A year later Kimble manages to escape during transport when other prisoners cause an accident leading to the bus being destroyed by an oncoming train. Kimble sneaks into a hospital, tends to his wound, shaves his beard, steal clothes and escapes in an ambulance. US Marshall Samuel Gerard chases Kimble into a tunnel from which Kimble escapes through the storm drain and despite being followed by Gerard, manages to disappear by jumping from a high spillway into the river. Kimble then returns to Chicago to find the one-armed man himself, getting money from his friend and colleague Charles Nichols. Posing as a janitor at the prosthetics' department of Cook County Hospital, he manages to make a short list of patients who could be his wife's killer. He however blows his cover when he is asked during a rush in E.R. to take a boy on a gurney to another floor but instead modifies the doctor's orders so that the boy would be operated on, saving his life. Gerard deduces what Kimble is doing and produces his own list of suspects. He spots his fugitive when interviewing a jailed suspect in Chicago City Hall, but loses him during the St. Patrick's Day parade. Later Kimble breaks into the home of his last suspect, Fredrick Sykes, a former cop, now chief of security for a pharmaceutical company. Kimble finds a link between this company and Lentz, the doctor who was in charge of testing a new drug, soon to get FDA agreement, that Kimble knew was causing liver damage. Kimble phones Gerard and leaves evidence in sight before leaving. He then visits a former colleague of his at the hospital. He learns that Lentz has died in a road accident six months earlier (presumably killed by Syskes because he too had found that the drug had side-effects). Kimble then gets proof that the liver samples used for the FDA agreement are fakes, and that Nichols, now a member of the board of the company, is the only person who could have replaced them. On his way to the cardiologists' conference where Nichols is going to announce the new drug, Kimble is attacked by Sykes on a train and a transit police officer is killed; Kimble is blamed and Chicago PD wants revenge. At the hotel, Kimble confronts Nichols, they fight and end up in the laundry, followed by Gerard and his men. Kimble saves the US Marshall's life when Nichols attempts to kill him. Gerard tells Kimble they have got Sykes and proof that Nichols helped the killer to stage the burglary of Kimble's home and to kill his wife.

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Dix ans après la seconde guerre mondiale, Sir Hugo Drax est un industriel britannique qui a fait fortune dans les minerais stratégiques et construit pour le royaume son premier missile balistique près de Douvres ; pour des raisons de limitations budgétaires, tous les techniciens travaillant sur la fusée ont été sont Allemands et ont été embauchés par Drax, et seuls deux policiers de Scotland Yard sont chargés de la sécurité, dont une, Gala Brand, sous la couverture de secrétaire de l'industriel. Drax fréquente le même club que M, et ce dernier le soupçonne de tricher au bridge. Il demande de l'aide à Bond, qui se fait un plaisir de faire perdre une fortune à Drax. Peu de temps après, le policier en charge de la sécurité est tué par un des techniciens pour une histoire de c½ur. Le Yard demande de l'aide à M et Bond devient le nouveau chef de la sécurité. Il découvre que son prédécesseur avait aperçu quelque chose de louche au large la nuit précédent sa mort, et Brand et lui manquent de se faire tuer par l'effondrement de la falaise alors qu'ils examinaient la plage. La veille du premier lancement d'essai, Drax part à Londres avec son homme de main, Krebs, et sa secrétaire. Brand parvient à voler le carnet dans lequel Drax note chaque jour les réglages des gyroscopes du missile que sa secrétaire calcule en fonction de données météo. Elle découvre que ces réglages emmèneraient le missile de test droit sur Londres et non pas vers la mer du Nord, mais Drax s'en aperçoit et la fait prisonnière. Ayant planifié un rendez-vous à Londres avec Brand et ne la voyant pas venir, Bond part à sa recherche et finit par poursuivre la voiture de Drax. Ce dernier provoque un accident, et Bond se réveille prisonnier dans la base aux cotés de Brand. Drax révèle être un ancien officier Nazi qui, déguisé en soldat anglais, avait posé à la fin de la guerre une bombe dans un QG britannique ; il avait été blessé dans l'explosion, a feint l'amnésie et pris une fausse identité en sortant de l'hôpital. Drax compte se venger du Royaume Uni en plaçant une ogive nucléaire fournie par les Soviétiques dans son missile et en le lançait sur Buckingham Palace. Drax ayant laissé Bond et Brand se faire incinérer par le décollage du missile, ces derniers parviennent à s'échapper et à re-régler les gyroscopes de sorte à le faire retomber dans la mer. Drax et ses hommes, qui s'étaient échappé à bord d'un sous-marin soviétique, sont tués dans l'explosion. Bond part alors à l'étranger, se faire oublier quelques temps.

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During the American Civil War, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March live with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts while their father is at the front. Meg wants to become an actress, Jo writes, Beth plays the piano and Amy draws and paints. They live near the Laurence's house where Laurie lives with his grandfather and his tutor John. The sisters live happily many years together even though Amy is jealous of Jo's relationship with Laurie. Mr. Laurence invites Beth to play his late daughter's piano in his house, eventually gifting her the piano. Mother and daughters also help a poor neighbouring family, the Hummels, from which Beth contracts scarlet fever, and Amy is sent to rich Aunt March to avoid catching the disease. Despite getting eventually better, she remains in weak health. Aunt March eventually takes Amy to Paris to take art courses, while Meg marries John and resents being poor compared to her richer friends. Laurie appears in Paris, revealing that Jo rejected his marriage proposal as she does not see herself married. Amy however refuses to be his second choice, despite having secretly been in love with him for many years, but also rejects the proposal from her wealthy acquaintance Fred. Jo has gone to New York to become a writer; she manages to publish dreadful stories that sell well, but her friend Friedrich criticises her work, angering her. She returns to Concord upon receiving a letter telling her that Beth's illness has worsened; she eventually dies. Amy returns from Paris with an ill Aunt March. Jo wonders if she should have accepted Laurie's proposal, but discovers he and Amy got married on their journey back. Jo then begins to write a novel based on her and her sisters' lives. In the meanwhile, Friedrich visits her and her family on his way to California. Jo's publisher is not impressed by the first chapters, but eventually agrees to publish the novel after her daughters demand to know how the story ends, but refuses to accept that the protagonist remains unmarried in the end; Jo then ends the book with the protagonist, herself, asking Friedrich to stay in the East. Jo successfully negotiates copyright and royalties. Following Aunt March's death, she inherits the house and opens it as a school where Meg, Amy, John and Friedrich all teach.

Al·Ith is the queen of Zone Three, where people live in harmony and have some kind of a shared consciousness. The god-like Providers order Al·Ith to go to Zone Four and marry its king, Ben Ata. Zone Four has lots of natural resources but its completely militarized civilisation makes no use of them and to Al·Ith its people look poor and unhappy. Both countries however see the natality rate of both humans and livestock decline very rapidly, and Al·Ith supposes that the marriage between the zone is going to solve it. The two rulers could not be different, Ben Ata being foremost a soldier, not used to the company of women he cannot control. After being forced to live together they however learn each other habits and end up falling in love. A son is born, Arusi, future ruler of both Zone Three and Four, and Al·Ith receives the help of some women, led by Dabeeb. The Providers then order Al·Ith to go back to Zone Three without her son and Ben Ata to marry Queen Vashi of Zone Five, ruler of many tribes of desert nomads who pillage the rest of the rich Zone. Both Al·Ith and Ben Ata are devastated by this news. Back in Zone Three, nobody recognizes Al·Ith whose sister Murti· has taken over as queen. Murti· is disturbed by how her sister has changed and exiles her at the frontier with Zone Two. She tries to enter the Zone but she finds it inhospitable and is told by invisible people it is not her time yet. In he meanwhile, Ben Ata disbands most of his army so that the men can rebuild the towns and villages; he also manages to gain Vashis's confidence and convince her to stop plundering Zone Five. With Arusi old enough to travel, Dabeeb and her band of women travel to Zone Three to visit Al·Ith and are shocked to see the former queen working in a stable. the inhabitants of Zone Three also have xenophobic attitudes towards the visitors. Five years later, the Providers tell Ben Ata to go and see Al·Ith. He is at first stopped at the border by a makeshift army but comes back with his own troops and despite not being well received, he finds his first wife surrounded by a small band of followers. Ben Ata tells her of the reforms he introduced in Zones Four and Five. One day, Al·Ith enters Zone Two and does not return but there are apparent changes in the three previously stagnant Zones where people and knowledge flow freely between them.

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“tropical with a citrus burst of bitterness”

Definitely tropical fruits. Quite good. Contains malted barley, wheat and oats.

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Isaïah et Agathe sont chasseurs de fantômes : elle est médium est peut les voir et les attirer dans un piège pour que lui, sorcier hoodoo, les force à partir vers l'au-delà. Ils sont appelés à Landrez en Bretagne pour chasser les fantômes du manoir de Ker ar Bran, situé à coté d'un phare que l'on dit maudit : celleux qui en ouvrent la porte sont condamnés à mourir sous peu. Agathe se rend compte que la maison est hantée par les fantômes de deux jeunes filles, et parvient à apprendre le nom de l'une d'entre elle, Solen (grâce à un enfant qui l'a vue et lui a parlé). Iels découvrent aussi les archives de Théophile, un érudit parisien, ésotériste spécialiste des anges, venu s'installer à Ker ar Bran en 1921 et mort tragiquement en 1922 après avoir tenté un rituel magique pour invoquer des anges. Les archives de la mairie, qui auraient pu les éclairer sur l'identité des fantômes ont été détruites dans un incendie quarante ans plus tôt. Toutes ces informations sont cependant insuffisant et Isaïah et Agathe repartent à Paris ; Agathe surtout a le sentiment d'avoir échoué alors qu'elle aurait dû réussir. Après avoir demandé de l'aide à un sorcier plus puissant qu'elleux, iels sont rappelés à Landrez et retrouvent des document ayant échappé à l'incendie des archives. Iels découvrent qu'en 1841, Tugdual de gardien du phare qui habitait Ker ar Bran a été reconnu coupable du meurtre d'une adolescente. La même année, Gwennyn, qui avait été accusée de sorcellerie a été bannie du village. Avec les prénoms des deux fantômes, Isaïah et Agathe tentent un nouvel exorcisme, sans plus de succès. Mais Agathe découvre une connexion avec Gwennyn (Agathe, Théophile et Gwennyn partageraient la même âme) et parvient à lui parler. Elle lui révèle que Solen, fille d'un marin mort dans un tempête, a été tuée par le fils du maire en essayant de la violer. Le maire a étouffé l'affaire en faisant accuser et condamner Tugdual. Gwennyn, qui pouvait entendre les fantômes, a appris de Solen qui l'avait tuée et l'a annoncé à sa mère. Cette dernière, horrifiée par le pouvoir de sa fille, l'a dénoncée au curé qui l'a fait bannir, la conduisant à se suicider. Théophile, quant à lui, a réveillé les nombreux esprits vivant sous Ker ar Bran et même s'il a été sauvé par Nenoga, une sorcière locale qui y a laissé ses pouvoirs, a fini par tomber en dépression et se suicider. Après ces révélations, les deux fantômes, apaisés, décident de leur plein gré de partir vers l'au-delà.

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Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist who lost a libel trial against crooked businessman Wennerström. Wealthy Henrik Vanger promises Mikael proof of Wennerström illegal activities in exchange for investigating the disappearance and presumed murder of his grandniece Harriet forty years ago. Mikael moves into a cottage on Vanger family estate on Hedestad Island and starts studying the files collected by Henrik. Most of Henrik's relatives live on the island and were Nazis and Nazi sympathizers during World War II. In a notebook that belonged to Harriet he discovers a list of names and numbers that are Bible references. At least one name matches an old, unsolved murder, and the reference describes the way the victim was killed. Mikael hires Lisbeth Salander, an investigator and computer hacker who researched Mikael before Henrik hired him. Lisbeth is a ward of the State, deemed unable to make social relationships and take care of her finances and who has been abused by the social services employee handling her money. Lisbeth discovers more victims, all with Jewish names, and matches their locations to places in the country where Vanger's company has business places and where Harriett's father Gottfried was present at the time of each murder. One more murder was committed after his death, leading to suspect her brother Martin committed it. Confronting Martin at his house, Mikael is made prisoner and taken to the basement where Martin brags about having committed many more murders while preparing to torture and kill the journalist. Mikael is saved by Lisbeth, Martin flees. Lisbeth chases the man on the road and the latter then dies in a road accident. Mikael and Lisbeth then deduce that Harriet is alive and living in London under the name of her estranged cousin Anita who had helped her flee Sweden. Harriett had killed her father Gottfried who had raped her, but had been seen by Martin who also had used this as leverage to abuse her too. Harriet and Henrik are finally reunited. The proof against Wennerström is however outdated and useless, but Lisbeth has hacked Wennerström's computer and found evidence of money laundering for various criminal syndicates. While Mikael publishes this information, Lisbeth empties Wennerström's offshore bank accounts, leading the fallen businessman to be murdered by his criminal employers.

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Rocannon is part of a survey team on an unnamed planet orbiting Formalhaut II where four different intelligent species have developed. All the other members on Rocannon's team have been killed by people from the Faraday system who have installed a secret military base with the intent on conquering planets from the interstellar League of All Worlds. With the enemy now controlling the only means of contacting the League, Rocannon wants to reach the base and use their ansible to reveal the location of the base. Rocannon travels on the back of windsteeds, by boat and walking, in the company of members of the Angyar culture of the Liuar species, on the northern continent. They meet with a members of the Fiia who guides the for a while, are made prisoner by cave-dwelling Gdemiar who wants to burn Rocannon (he survives thanks to his high-tech protective suit) and by the Winged Ones. The latter, a hive society, have captured them to feed on them, and they manage to escape only thanks to the Kiemhrir. In the mountains near his goal, Rocannon encounters an entity that gives him a form of telepathy. He finally reaches the enemy' base and contacts the League, leading soon after in its destruction; having felt telepathically the hundreds of deaths of his enemies, Rocannon feels guilty and is traumatized. Rocannon then retires among the Angyar of the southern continent, waiting for rescuers from the League. However, as humans cannot survive FTL travel, he has to wait at least eight years for anyone to reach him and dies before they arrive, not knowing the planet is now named after him.

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Just another ale. Contains malted barley an wheat.

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Roasted, chocolate, coffee flavours. Contains malted barley.

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Masklin (along with Angalo and Gurder) are searching for Grandson Richard, as the Thing has told him that it could call their spaceship if it could get aboard the communications satellite Richard is going to launch. The nomes first go to the airport where they quietly board Concorde and fly to Florida. After causing some trouble on the plane, they hide in Richard's luggage and end up in his hotel room. They however have to flee and end up outside where they meet a tribe of Nomes who speak a language close to ancient Nomish. They manage to communicate thanks to the Thing and the local Nomes fly them to the space shuttle's launch site on geese (thanks to which they migrate yearly between Alaska and Florida). Near the shuttle, the Thing uploads itself into the satellite and exhausts in doing so all the power it had stored. After the takeoff, Masklin decides to take it to a human building to let it recharge itself near electrical wires. He is caught (on purpose) by humans but manages to escape with the recharged Thing as the Nomes' spaceship arrives and Angalo and Gurder board it. Masklin then by chance meets Richard, with whom he discusses briefly as the Nome's spaceship, piloted by Angalo, lands again and let him board. They then fly away back to Britain after making a detour through South America where they pick up a Bromeliad flower that Masklin gives to Grimma before taking the Nomes. Gurder decides to stay on Earth to search for other Nome tribes, tell them of their origins and give them the possibility to migrate to a Nome planet the next time the spaceship would visit Earth.

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The nomes have resettled in a closed quarry. When they discover that the quarry will soon reopen, they wonder what to do, and consider moving to a barn on the other side of the field. Reading a newspaper article about Arnold Bros' grandson who who is traveling to Florida on business about a communication satellite, Masklin decides to leave with a few nomes and find more about the grandson. In the meanwhile winter comes and covers the ground with snow, making it impossible for the younger and elder nomes to travel to the barn. As humans come to reopen the quarry, Grimma has to oppose a rising religious nome who promises that faith in Arnold Bros will solve all their problems; that nome is accidentally killed by humans. The nomes sabotage a truck in an attempt to prevent the humans to enter the quarry, lead by Dorcas who make them steal the battery and diesel fuel, but the truck accidentally rolls onto the railways tracks and causes an accident. More humans come to the quarry, put poisoned bait to eliminate what they believe to be rats. Dorcas and his nomes, who had been lost outside after the accident, is finally found and presents his plan: he has found and repaired a JCB digger in shed, and proposes to use it to take all the nomes to the barn. The drive out among amazed humans, but are chased by the police. The eventually get stuck on the top of a hill, when a spaceship appears above them.

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Roger hires Eddie to check if his wife indeed cheats on him with Clark Gable, as the tabloids claim. Soon after, Eddie is also hired by Selznick who want him to find a small metal box that had disappeared after a triple interview with Roger, Baby Herman and Enigman for his next film, Gone with the Wind. Eddie first suspects Enigman, but the latter gets killed with Eddie's gun as the detective is interviewing him at his home. Suspected by the police, Eddie's investigation leads him to a shady rum dealer who is later murdered. Eddie is also hired by Clarke who suspects his girlfriend Carol Lombard to cheat on him. Roger is also suspected of murder, but it's his cousin Dodger who is also after the box that framed him, only to be murdered soon after. With Roger and Clark as sidekicks, Eddie discover that the box contains the formula for the Toon Tonic that can transform a toon into a human and vice versa, and Selznick's right hand, Pepper Potts, is the toon behind the murders. Eddie recovers the box from Roger's coverall pocket (where Baby had put it to reduce the competition for Selznick's film). Roger makes some of the Toon Tonic and becomes another human in the crowd. Eddied eventually agrees with Potts to exchange the box against Jessica and her twin sister Joellyn (who is only 6 inches tall) whom Potts had abducted. During the encounter, Eddie gets wounded, Potts gets killed, but the two women are found and saved by the police. Roger decides to become a toon again and gives Eddie the leftover tonic for safekeeping, after having burnt the formula. Selznick then explains Eddie he knows nothing of Potts' dealings and that he had bought the formula from the rum dealer in the hope of making enough money from it that he would be able to produce his film; Eddie suggests he makes the film with human actors and with a serious tone instead. Jessica then explains Roger that she leaked the rumors of her infidelity to the press to make Carol jealous and open to Clark's marriage proposal; the plot succeeds. Jessica and Roger also get triplet children. There is also a side story with Eddie's lost brother Freddy who had disappeared but is actually happily living his life as a toon and Eddie's sister Heddy whom he suspects of being a toon pretending to be a human married to a toon cop.

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En 1961, Spirou et Fantasio se rendent à New York pour interviewer Castro lors d'un discours à l'ONU. Ils y retrouvent Longplaying à qui ils donnent un GAG amélioré, sans savoir qu'il travaille pour la CIA. Deux agents utilisent Spirou, le prenant pour un groom, pour un attentat contre Castro, et les hommes de ce dernier kidnappent Spirou et l'emmènent à Cuba. Les agents y envoient alors Fantasio, armé du GAG, reprendre contact avec la rébellion pro-USA. À Cuba, Seccotine est en reportage et rencontre Guevara. Lors d'une réception où elle est invitée par ce dernier, elle rencontre Fantasio déguisé en clown. Suite à une altercation causée par le Marsupilami, les deux journalistes s'enfuient et se réfugient dans la forêt, où ils sont faits prisonniers par les rebelles. Après avoir réussi à s'expliquer, Seccotine part de son coté pour tenter de libérer Spirou en prévenant la police que les américains préparent une attaque, mais finit par être mise par Guevara en prison, dans la même cellule que Spirou. De son coté, Fantasio et les rebelles préparent une attaque contre la prison et parviennent à libérer les deux prisonniers. Ils apprennent de Guevara que Castro, qui s'est emparé du GAG, va participer à la défense contre les américains et se cachent dans son avion, faisant échouer son plan et détruisant le GAG.

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A handful of nomes live in a burrow at a rest area along the motorway. Life being very hard, they decide to hop on a lorry and leave, in the hope for a better life. The lorry stops in the garage of the Arnold Bros department store where they meet a community of two thousand nomes who has been living there for generations and mostly refuses to believe there exists an Outside. The newcomers have a black box, transmitted from generation to generation, that starts to speak to them as it comes near electrical wiring; it explains that the nomes have crashed on Earth in a spaceship fifteen thousand years ago and that it is a flight recorder. The nomes had attempted to teach technology to the humans in order to get them to build a space shuttle that could fly them to their mothership, but it failed. When the nomes discover that the store is about to be closed, they plan to escape by stealing a lorry. As the closure happens faster than expected, they have to steal a lorry (thankfully loaded with plenty of useful items) in a hurry and learn to drive (with the help of numerous levers and pulleys) as they escape. They eventually find shelter in a quarry near the airport and contemplate stealing an airplane.

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En Écosse, Bonnie et Émilia obeservent des moines dans un monastère en ruines, mais ces derniers disparaissent. Le lendemain, un moine explique à Yoko que'ils cherchent les traces historique d'un animal satanique qui a habité les lieux au moyen-âge. Cecilia montre alors à Yoko une patte d'aigle en or, trouvée une siècle plus tôt. Plus tard, le moine révèle à Yoko les deux versions de l'histoire de l'aigle, soit tué par les moines, soit enlevé par des démons dans une machine entourée d'une spirale de lumière. Yoko contacte alors Zarkâ qui explique que l'aigle, synthétique, avait été mis en place par les Vinéens pour surveiller les moines 800 ans plus tôt. Zhyttâ vient alors chercher Yoko à la demande de la déesse Brigit. Mais Monya arrive alors avec le translateur temporel, et Yoko décide de plutôt l'accompagner à l'époque de l'aigle 800 ans plus tôt. Elles arrivent juste après l'incendie du monastère et rencontrent Sébastien, un jeune moine qui les explique que les moines sont surveillés par d'autres moines-alchimistes qui fréquentent Lucifer, apparemment un extraterrestre. Les moines confient à Yoko l'aigle qu'ils gardent prisonnier, et elles repartent vers le présent avec l'aigle et Sébastien. À leur retour, elles voient que Khâny est arrivée et repartent avec elle au temple des immortelles pour faire réparer l'aigle par Zhyttâ, qui est partie en avance. Au temple. Yoko présente Sébastien à Brigit, puis rejoint Zarkâ auprès du sarcophage où survit une créature que Zarkâ décrit comme avoir été imposé pour gérer la Terre, et qui a crée Zarkâ. De peur d'être détruite par Yoko, la créature, qui ressemble au Lucifer des moines du passé, les force à fuir.

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Suite à un accident, Rabah est devenu un légume. Carlo a fait construire un nouveau Stromboli, mais a besoin d'argent pour le payer. Nao et lui sont enlevés par Ragnar le pirate qui a besoin d'un courrier pour échanger de l'or contre des otages. Ragnar travaille avec un scientifique peu scrupuleux qui affirme pouvoir guérir Rabah. Nao accepte, en échange de laisser Ragnar établir une base sur Aquablue. Carlo et Nao récupèrent les otages et parviennent à garder l'or, grâce à une dissension entre deux factions des kidnappeurs, une espèce insectoïde. Rabah est soigné par le scientifique pendant que l'autre faction d'insectoïdes attaquent la base de Ragnar pour reprendre l'or. Une fois les attaqunts repoussés, Rabah se réveille et prend possession de son nouveau Stromboli.

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Patch, le roi des brigands fait enlever Puck par Scabs afin de contraindre Tom à voler, dans le musée privé de Scotland Yard, une lettre écrite par Jack l'éventreur. Lorsqu'il lui livre la lettre, Patch dit à Tom de se débrouiller avec Scabs libérer Puck. Tom s'enfuit grâce à l'aide de son ami le vieux Bailey. Billy et Charlie trouvent la cachette où Scabs a enfermé Puck et le libèrent. Holmes est cependant mécontent que Tom lui ait caché son problème et soit allé voler la lettre. Quand Tom découvre que Patch a fait tuer Bailey, il retourne chez Patch pour se venger. Ce dernier lui propose de tue Scabs, mais Tom refuse. Patch, qui vient de faire enlever Charlie, exige que Tom revienne dans sa bande de voleurs. Tom accepte pour sauver son amie. Charlier demande alors de l'aide à Watson, qui va exiger la libération de Tom. Bones, le tueur dont Patch use pour contrôler les autre brigands par la peur se fait tuer et ces derniers se débarrassent de leur roi. Holmes récupère la lettre chez un ancien policier du Yard qui revend ds relique criminelles à des collectionneurs sans scrupule, mais bannit Tom des Irréguliers pour avoir mis en péril sa réputation professionnelle.

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Sur fond de campagne présidentielle, Belton enquête sur la source d'une drogue frelatée qui tue nombre de ses utilisateurs. Une femme masquée appelée Foudre cherche elle aussi le fournisseur, qui est un criminel masqué appelé Crâne. Josh s'infiltre dans l'organisation de Kenler, un baron de la droguer connu (aussi candidat à l'élection), tandis que Jenna devient danseuse dans le cabaret de Melvik, connu pour diffuser la drogue. Josh est fait prisonnier par Crâne au cours d'une opération de Kenler pour se débarrasser de son rival, et est libéré par Foudre. Cette dernière est capable d'utiliser les miroirs pour se déplacer. Jenna se fait inviter à dîner chez Melvik où elle est attaquée par Crâne et sauvée par Foudre. Plus tard, lorsque Marnie surveille l'appartement de Melvik, elle le voit s'échanger avec Crâne grâce à un miroir et se battre contre Foudre. Crâne est démasqué et arrêté, mais Foudre s'échappe.

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Morn has been rescued by Nick's pirate. The ship's computer expert is killed by Nick for having attempted to rape her just after having boasted that he planted a virus in the ship's computer. Morn, needing to be useful to the ship to avoid being killed, claims she can flush the virus. To bear being raped by Nick, she accidentally sets her zone implant so that she takes pleasure in it, slowly making Nick fall in love with her. Thanks to the device, she also works continuously for days and successfully gets rid of the virus. She also discovers being pregnant (from Angus) but leads Nick to believe he is the father. As a spaceship is no place to rise a child, Nick decides to go to the Amnion outpost and trade some of his blood for getting the baby extracted and artificially grown close to adulthood. As the Amnions cannot create a new mind, the boy, Davies, receives Morn's memories. The Amnions are specialists in genetics and want to mutate humans to turn them into Amnions; until now the process is imperfect and most humans are frightened of them, but as Nick seems to be an agent of UMCP (the mining corporation's all-powerful police) he has access to an anti-mutagenic drug that UMCP has kept a secret. The Amnions notice that Nick has cheated when donating his blood and demand Davies in reparation. As Nick seems willing to agree to that deal, Morn rigs a self-destruct of the ship and threatens to blow up the Amnion's outpost if they don't leave with Davies. The pirate ship manages to leave to a human outpost but an Amnion cruiser blocks their way. Nick has locked Morn in her cabin and has humiliated her as a revenge for manipulating him in multiple ways. He agrees to transfer Davies to the Amnion ship in an escape pod, but Morn manages to escape and change the pod's programming and send it to the human outpost. Nick also sends a secret message to UMCP, who then sends Angus Thermopyle, turned into a cyborg against his will, to capture her.

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Four years after defeating Enchantress, Joker breaks up with Harley Quinn. Without his protection, all the people she has wronged in the past want to kill her. At a night club owned by crime lord Roman Sionis, Harley meets Dinah, a singer who becomes Sionis' driver, the latter being impressed by her fighting skills when preventing a drunk Harley from being kidnapped. Sionis is also investigated by Gotham City PD Detective Renee Montoya, who also investigates a series of mob killing carried out by a crossbow-wielding vigilante. Sionis sends his sadistic henchman Szasz and Dinah to retrieve a diamond containing the account numbers to the fortune of the Bertinelli crime family, who were massacred years ago, but Cassandra Cain, a child pickpocket steals the diamond and swallows it as she is soon after arrested by the police. Harley is captured by Sionis' men and convinces him to release her under the promise she can retrieve the diamond from Cassandra. Harley breaks into GCPD, frees Cass and takes her to her apartment, but they have to flee when attacked by criminals, Sionis having also placed a bounty on Cass' head. Harley agrees to meet with Sionis in an abandoned amusment park to exchange Cass for his protection. Dinah, who had agreed to become an informant for Montoya, tells her about the meeting, but Szasz notices it and tells Sionis, who assembles an army of thugs to attack the meeting place. At the amusement park, Harley and Cass are joined by Montoya and soon by Szasz who forced Dinah to come with him. Szasz is killed by the crossbow killer who appears suddenly and who reveals herself as Helena, the sole survivor of the Bertinelli family and who wants to avenge their deaths. Together they fight Sionis' thugs, but Cass is captured and chased by Dinah and Harley. Sionis is finally killed by Cass. In the end, Montoya (who has left the police), Dinah and Helena form the Birds of Prey team of vigilantes thanks to the Bertinelli fortune, while Cass and Harley sell the diamond and go their own way.

“USA and Australia hops… honeydew melon, green grape and pink grapefruit flavour… citrus finish”

Just another ale. Contains barley, wheat and oats.

North Brewing Co, Leeds, England. 8.5% alcohol.

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After having drifted in space for 57 years, Ripley is rescued. Her employer accuses her of destroying the Nostromo and does not believe her story about the alien, since the planet is now being colonized and terraformed and no alien ship has been found. When contact is lost with the colony, she is asked to accompany Burke, a representative of the company, and group of colonial marines to investigate. They find the colony destroyed, two alive face-huggers in vats in a laboratory and one little girl called Newt. They locate the other colonists under the fusion-powered atmospheric processor, cocooned in a sort of nest with many eggs, where some of them are still alive and waiting to be taken by face-huggers. They are attacked by several adult aliens when trying to kill a juvenile that just hatched, and some of the marines get killed. They decide to evacuate with the dropship that took them to the surface, but an alien who had climbed aboard causes it to crash; in doing so it damages the fusion reactor which will explode and destroy the colony after a few hours. The survivors barricade themselves in the colony and wait until Bishop, an artificial man and technician with the marines, is able to got outside, reach and hack the colony's transmitter to remotely pilot the second dropship from the spaceship waiting in orbit. Ripley discovers that Burke asked the colony to investigate the alien ship on in the hope to profit from turning the aliens into a biological weapon. Before she can expose him, he attempts to get her and Newt impregnated by the two face-huggers from the lab, that would allow him to smuggle the alien back to Earth. Having failed, Burke flees and is taken by the aliens that attack and kill most of the remaining marines. Ripley, corporal Hicks and Newt try to reach the dropship that is on its way, but Newt is taken by the aliens and Hicks is severely wounded. Ripley arms herself and enters the nest under the fusion reactor where she angers the alien queen laying eggs. She manages to save Newt and escape as the reactor explodes, destroying the aliens' nest, but the queen stows away on the dropship. Ripley manages to push her into an airlock by using an exosuit cargo loader. Then they all go into stasis for their return trip to Earth.

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Five years earlier, Mark Hogancamp was beaten up and left for dead by a group of white supremacist because he admitted, while drunk, to sometimes enjoying wearing women's shoes. He has physically recovered but has lost all memory of his life before the attack. Formerly an illustrator specialized in World War 2, he cannot draw anymore and has turned to photography. Mark has constructed a model village named Marwen, set in Belgium during the war and built up a story about an American pilot, Hogie, who is rescued and later protected by the women of the village. Characters are represented by fashion dolls and each of the women of the village is imagined after a real woman whom Mark has met. The village is regularly attacked by Nazi soldiers who, despite being killed by the villagers come back to life thanks to Dejah Thoris, the village's witch. Mark photographs his fantasies to help him cope with memory loss and post-traumatic stress disorder. After a lot of hesitation, Mark agrees to appear in court to deliver a victim impact statement but upon seeing his attackers he imagines the court room is attacked by Nazi soldiers and he flees in terror; the judge postpones the hearing. When Nicol moves in the house next door and is nice to him, Mark adds a new doll named after her to the village. Hogie falls in love with doll Nicol and they get married. In real life however, Nicol turns his proposal down. In Mark's fantasies, doll Nicol is killed by a Nazi which is in turn killed by Hogie. Dejah Thoris revives the Nazi and demands that Hogie comes with her to the far future in the time machine Mark built for her, but during a struggle Hogie discovers that the witch is actually a Nazi spy and Mark learns that she is the personification of his addiction to pills that he thinks are helping him. He throws the pills away, attends the court hearing and delivers his statement. He also agrees to attend the exhibition of his work and makes a date with his friend Roberta, who is a sales clerk at the hobby store where he gets his supplies.

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Angus Thermopyle is an evil an unsuccessful space pirate. When he enters a bar on a mining space station accompanied with a beautiful young woman, Morn Hyland, the patrons wonder how that happened. Another, better looking pirate, Nick Succorso, confronts Angus and somehow rescues Morn. It sounds like a classical drama of captor, victim and rescuer. The real story however is that Angus was chased by a United Mining Company Police vessel aboard which Morn was serving. Suffering from undiagnosed gap-sickness, she lost control and provoked the vessel to self-destruct. Angus rescued her, installed a zone implant in her brain (for which he could be executed if caught) to control her actions and prevent her from destroy his beloved ship, and used the implant to torture Morn into submission to him. He however unexpectedly grew emotionally attached to her. When Nick leaves suddenly the station to raid a ship in distress just before it is locked down, Angus, who has been monitoring his communications, follows him. Th ship however does not exist, it is all a trap set by Nick with the complicity of someone in station security. Nick cripples Angus' ship, and flies slowly back to the station. There Nick makes secretely contact with Morn who helps him frame Angus for stealing stations supplies. She negotiates the zone implant's remote control from Angus in exchange for her silence about the illegal installation of the device. Morn leaves in Nick's ship and Angus is arrested but his life is spared, making Morn his rescuer.

“stone fruit and citrus… papaya and pineapples”

Just another ale. Contains malted barley and wheat.

Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 5.9% alcohol.

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The crew of the Nostromo ore transporter wakes up, believing they are arriving close to the solar system. Instead, they were woken up to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planet. A team crash-lands near a large alien spaceship. As part of the team repairs the shuttle, others go out and discover the long-dead body of a creature with a hole in its torso. Analyzing the signal, Ripley concludes it's a warning to stay away, not a distress signal. One member, Kane, discovers a chamber containing hundreds of eggs and as one of them opens, a spider-like creature jumps out and attaches to his face, through his helmet. When the shuttle flies back to Nostromo, Ripley insists Kane's body remains in quarantine, but science officer Ash decides to let him in the infirmary, where he tries to remove the creature from Kane's face by cutting one of its legs. The creature's blood is very corrosive and manages to drip through several floors. The creature eventually detaches itself and Kane regains conciousness, but a few hours later he dies as another creature jumps out of his chest. The crew starts hunting the creature, but, having quickly become full-grown, it kills first Brett, and then Captain Dallas who was following it in an air duct. Having to assume command, Ripley learns from Mother, the board computer, that Ash has secretly been ordered by the Company to bring alien creatures back to Earth and that the crew is expendable. She confronts Ash, who tries to kill her, but with the help of Parker they manage to kill him out and discover he's an android. Upon reactivating its head, Ash indicates the alien cannot be killed. The remaining crew decides to self-destruct the Nostromo and to escape in the shuttle. Parker and Lambert are ambushed and killed by the creature, so Ripley initiates self-destruct, and despite the alien initially blocking her way to the shuttle and a failed attempt to cancel the self-destruct, she manages to escape just in time. As she prepares for stasis, she notices the alien is hiding in the shuttle; she puts on a space suit and flushes it out of the airlock. She then prepares for the trip back to Earth.

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Nick Carraway tells his psychiatrist about his meeting of Jay Gatsby in 1922 in New York. Carraway's cousin, Tom Buchanan is a domineering man whose wife Daisy introduces her friend Jordan Baker to Carraway. Tom also has a mistress, Myrtle, wife of a garage owner in a disreputable part of the city, whom Nick meets at a party. Carraway has bought a house next to Gatsby's mansion and wonders about the mysterious man. One day, Nick is invited to one of the extravagant parties held by Gatsby, and is apparently the only person with an invitation. Gatsby asks Nick to invite his cousin Daisy for tea at his cottage one day, when Gatsby would just happen to visit his neighbour. Nick learns bit by bit that Gatsby had met Daisy five years earlier when he was in the army and had fallen in love with her. But since he was poor, he could not marry her and she then married Tom and started to throw parties in the hope she would attend. Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair, but when she ask him to run away with her he refuses, saying she must divorce Tom. Gatsby pressures Daisy to tell Tom she is leaving him, and during a dinner at the Buchanan Tom becomes suspicious of Gatsby and his wife, but Daisy changes the subject, suggesting they all go into town, at the Plaza Hotel. There Gatsby tells Tom that his wife never loved him (which is not quite true) and Tom reciprocates exposing Gatsby as a nobody who made his fortune through bootlegging with mobsters. Gatsby and Daisy leave and on the way back home they pass by Myrtle's garage and accidentally kill her but do not stop. Nick eventually deduces that Daisy was driving that night but Gatsby protects her by letting people believe is is responsible. He then waits for Daisy's phone call where she would tell him she has finally left Tom, but he is instead killed by Myrtle's husband. Nobody attends Gatsby's funeral except Nick, as now that his past is know and he is still thought to be Myrtle's killer, he has become an outcast from the society of the wealthy. In the end, Nick reflects on Gatsby's ability to hope.

“toffee, caramel, biscuits and toasted nuts… tangerine marmelade and citrus… grapefruit zest bitterness”

Just another ale. Contains malted barley and malted wheat.

Marble Beers Ltd, Manchester, England. 5.5% alcohol.

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Des pièces d'or anciennes entrent en contrebande aux États-Unis et financent l'organisation de Mr. Big. Ce dernier, à la tête d'un réseau criminel, est un agent de l'URSS, originaire de Haïti et possède une grande influence sur la communauté noire américaine qui le considère comme le Baron Samedi du Vaudou. Le yacht de Big va régulièrement de la Floride à la Jamaïque pour y chercher des poissons exotiques et des coquillages, vendus par un grossiste local. Comme l'or semble provenir de la Jamaïque, Bond est envoyé à New York pour enquêter avec Felix Leiter, agent de la CIA. Dans une boite de nuit de Harlem, Bond est enlevé et interrogé par Big qui fait appel à une jeune femme, Solitaire, capable de détecter le mensonge. Bond s'échappe et part ensuite en train en compagnie de Solitaire qui veut échapper à Big. Ils échappent de peu à un attentat et arrivent en Floride mais sont rapidement repérés par un agent de Big. Solitaire est enlevée par Big, tandis que Leiter, allé enquêter seul chez le grossiste, finit à l'hôpital, mutilé. Bond y enquête à son tour, découvre que l'or est caché dans le sable au fond des aquariums de poissons venimeux. Il est attaqué par le propriétaire du magasin qui finit à travers une trappe dans le bassin à requins dont Leiter a été victime. Bond part alors pour la Jamaïque et se prépare pour une expédition sur l'île, privée, où mouille le yacht de Big. Il parvient à l'île en scaphandre autonome et place une mine sur la coque du navire, mais est ensuite repéré et arrêté, tenant compagnie à Solitaire. Les hommes de Big sont en train de vider la caverne contenant le trésor du pirate Henry Morgan. Leur départ est prévu le lendemain matin, juste au moment où la mine doit exploser et Big prévoit de tuer Bond et Solitaire en les trainant derrière le yacht à travers le récif de corail pour attirer les requins et barracudas qui les achèveront. La mine explose heureusement juste à temps et Bond et Solitaire sont sauvés par Quarrel.

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Le Chiffre est un agent de SMERSH en France. Il a perdu de l'argent de ses commanditaires dans de mauvais investissements et tente de gagner de l'argent en jouant au casino de Royal-les-Eaux. James Bond, sous la couverture d'un riche fils de planteur de la Jamaïque, est chargé de lui faire perdre son argent au Baccara afin de le discréditer auprès de ses supérieurs. L'opération est un succès, mais sa collègue Vesper Lynd avec qui il dinait est enlevé par Le Chiffre. Bond les poursuit en voiture mais est enlevé à son tour quand sa voiture est forcée à sorti de la route. Le Chiffre torture Bond pour lui faire révéler l'endroit où il a caché le chèque que lui a remis le casino. Il doit son salut à un assassin de SMERSH qui exécute Le Chiffre mais qui n'a pas d'instructions à son sujet. Bond se réveille à l'hôpital quelques jours plus tard et songe sérieusement à changer de carrière. Il passe sa convalescence avec Vesper, mais leur relation se détériore au bout de quelque jours, cette dernière devenant mélancolique et distante; elle est effrayée et voit des ennemis partout. Bond décide de la demande en mariage, mais il la retrouve morte le lendemain. Dans un lettre expliquant son suicide, elle révèle être une agente double. En colère de s'être fait manipuler, Bond décide de poursuivre sa carrière d'agent secret.

The civilization of Canopus colonizes the planet Shikasta and expects to keep it under its positive influence, but a cosmic event reduces that influence to almost nothing. Johor, emissary of Shikasta reports that the Giants, installed there to guide the evolution of the Natives disappear slowly under the ambiguous influence of agents of Sirius and under the negative influence of the emissaries of Shammat, the moral opposite of Canopus. The Natives themselves are less and less benevolents towards each other. Johor reports the typically miserable lives of a few individuals between World Wars 1 and 2, and History books cite the diary of a young woman telling the story of her brother George in the time leading to World War 3. Very charismatic, George organizes Youth groups that turn into Youth Armies in various parts of the world, who take care of providing refuge to children orphaned by the various conflicts that erupt everywhere. Reports by Chinese agrens indicate that at some point George is chosen to represent non-white people in a mock trial of the white people regrding the colonization of Africa and the Americas. This event seems to mark the beginning of the third World War.

Strong fruit flavour, probably guava. Contains malted barley and wheat.

Northern Monk Brew Co., Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. 4.0% alcohol.

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As a child, Diana participates in a competition that she almost win by cheating, only to be stopped before the finish line by Antiope, who explains that anything worthwhile must be obtained honestly. In 1984, Diana works as the Smithonian Institution and befriends Barbara Minerva, a shy geologist and cryptozoologist with whom she tries to identify stolen antiquities by request of the FBI. They notice a Latin inscription on a large yellow crystal, claiming it can grant one wish. Barbara wishes she would be more like Diana and soon gets more self-confident, noticed by other people and develops super powers. Diana, yearning for Steve Trevor, discovers that her dead lover has resurrected in the body of random man; he seeks her and they are reunited. In the meanwhile, failed businessman Max Lord steals the crystal and wishes to become it. He thus can grant anyone else's wish and take something from them in return. This soon results in worldwide chaos, destruction, and instability. Diana and Barbara discover that the crystal was created by the God of Lies and grants exactly what is asked, but in a way that is always detrimental to the wisher, and has caused the downfall of many civilisations throughout History; the only alternative would be that all wishers renounce their wishes, but neither Barbara nor Diana are willing to do so. Max then visits the US President who wishes to have many more nuclear missiles than the USSR; in exchange Max gets access to a US satellite system that allows to broadcast to anyone in the world. Max thus plans to steal the wisher's life force to compensate for his body's decay due to granting wishes. Diana tries to stop Max, but Barbara sides with him and they escape together. Steve then convinces Diana to renounce her wish, which restores her full strength. She then flies to the island from which the broadcast system is controlled and again battles Barbara, who is turning into a humanoid cheetah. Having won, Diana confronts Max and uses her Lasso of Truth to communicate with the world through him, persuading everyone to renounce their wishes. Seeing a vision of his son searching desperately for his father, Max realizes his error, renounces his wish, cancelling most of the changes that occurred due to people's wishes.

Indeed roasty. Contains malted barley, malted wheat and malted oats.

Marble Beers Ltd, Manchester, England. 5.7% alcohol.

“hedelmiä, vaniljaa… tammea, karamellia… Bourbon-tynnyreissä”

Makea, väkevä, vähän savua, hedelmäinen. Sisältää ohramallasta.

Teerenpeli panimo, Lahti, Finland. 10 % alkoholia.