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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers at a German university have confirmed the location of the oldest Roman military fortification ever discovered in that country -- a camp believed to be built during the Gallic War in the late 50s B.C. that they say will provide new insight into Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul. The approximately 260,000 square mile site, located near the town of Hermeskeil in the Hunsrueck region in the German federal state of...

PROGRAM TO BE AIRED PRIMETIME ON DECEMBER 22 SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ - Anything Technologies Media Inc. (EXMT.PK) announced today that it has successfully launched its first DVD, A Celtic Christmas, for sale worldwide.  A Celtic Christmas aired last Sunday on TBN and is scheduled to air again, prime time on December 22, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm and on the 23 at 1:00 am to 2:00 am on 420 TV stations across the U.S. to 99 million households. Below is a review of A...

SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ - Anything Technologies Media Inc. (EXMT.PK) announced today that it has launched its first DVD, A Celtic Christmas, for sale worldwide.  A Celtic Christmas is scheduled to be aired on December 12, 2010 on 420 TV stations in the U.S.  A Celtic Christmas is the first program of its revenue sharing agreement with Anything Media Inc., (AMI) to co-market and fulfill orders of this block buster DVD of Christmas music and dancing.  Below is a...

We are advised by Celtic Insurance Company, Inc. that journalists and other readers should disregard the news release, "Celtic HealthyTexas Launches New Website," issued 18-Oct-2010 over PR Newswire. SOURCE Celtic Insurance Company, Inc.

The origin of the "˜Celtic fringe' of genetically and culturally distinctive people in the northern and western British Isles is the source of fierce academic controversy.But new research into the movement of small mammals, such as voles and shrews, at the end of the last Ice Age, could provide important new clues to resolve the debate. The research is published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.An international team of scientists, led by Professor Jeremy Searle of...

Historians attending a conference in England say the Vikings that first settled in Britain and Ireland may have been better neighbors than previously thought. Experts at the three-day University of Cambridge conference, which began Friday, said recent evidence suggests that many of the Norse Vikings who arrived in Britain and Ireland starting about 1,200 years ago lived in peace with Anglo-Saxons and Celts and often traded ideas with the natives, The Times of London reported Friday. The...

By Bob Karlovits Irish singer Darren Holden says the show by the High Kings gets down to the basics in Celtic entertainment. "It's the biggest Irish pub session in the world," he says about the brand of Celtic entertainment that encourages, shall we say, interaction. "We want people to be standing on their chairs, dancing or shaking their fits in the air," he continues. The High Kings, four singers who could be looked at as a testosterone-laden version of Celtic Woman, will be bringing...

NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Celtic Thunder -- the Irish all-male wonder from producer Sharon Browne, and legendary songwriter/composer Phil Coulter -- embarks on a national tour of the U.S. this fall. Already a smash hit, Celtic Thunder wowed audiences with their Public Television Pledge Special. Now, audiences across the U.S. will have the chance to witness the spectacular power of Celtic Thunder live, as they undertake a 48-city tour. For a list of tour dates, check out...

CARTHAGE - New England Celtic Arts will host a fundraising concert and auction at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center. At 6:15 p.m., there will be a pre-show jam open to audience members. Musicians from all over Maine will gather to perform for the benefit of Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center building project. Andy Buckland of Boreal Tordu will emcee and organize the musical segments. Phill McIntyre, director of New England Celtic Arts, will be the guest...

By Mary Starr, The Brunswick News, Ga. Aug. 1--Perhaps because there are so many people of Scots-Irish heritage in the United States, Celtic music has a huge following on this side of the Atlantic. Fans of the music, with themes that range from melancholy to humorous, and the pace of which can often be mournfully slow or rollicking, will be in for a treat Sunday when Savannah-based Celtic musician Harry O'Donoghue drops in to "A Little Light Music" on the lawn of the St. Simons...