Where to go to find the luck of the Irish

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Here’s a list of some of the world’s luckiest destinations:
Touch of the Blarney
Ireland’s Blarney Stone is a block of bluestone that was built into a tower at Blarney Castle in 1446. According to legend, kissing the stone gives you the gift of the gab – great eloquence or skill at flattery. Nose for Luck
In the centre of Florence’s Mercato Nuovo is a 17th-century bronze boar fountain. The fountain is said to bring good fortune to those who toss a coin into it and rub the pig’s nose.
Tucked away in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, Lourdes attracts millions of pilgrims every year for the supposed healing properties in the spring waters. In 1858, a 14-year-old school girl had a vision of the Virgin Mary in a remote grotto. A statue was erected there and water from the cave has been linked with several unexplained recoveries.
Spin the tile
In 1989, the people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formed a human chain of more than 2 million people to protest Soviet rule. The end point of the chain was a tile in Vilnius cathedral, Lithuania. The Stebuklas, or miracle tile, supposedly has magical properties, and anyone who spins around on it three times will have a wish granted.

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7 Responses to “Where to go to find the luck of the Irish”

  1. Preston says on March 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pm :

    My point was merely that one needn’t feel bad for him, since he’s not in that bad of shape now.

  2. Cindy says on March 17th, 2008 at 4:38 pm :

    You said, if you want reform buy stock.I said, buying stock won’t bring reform, in most companies, it can’t bring reform.Now you’re saying the opposite? I’m confused.

  3. Clark says on March 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm :

    For all the people on here who complain about the Fed being a private institution, I’m surprised they haven’t caught on to this. It’s not the taxpayers who are paying for this, near as I can tell.

  4. Christabelle says on March 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm :

    Ok let’s do that, when we make bad decisions, as average american nobody bails us out. The fact that he had billions at some point doesn’t make any difference to me. He should be treated the same. We should have been comparing his billions to a big fat zero instead of millions out of our pocket.

  5. Alys says on March 17th, 2008 at 7:10 pm :

    Hegemony!

  6. Maitland says on March 17th, 2008 at 8:00 pm :

    It’s all about how much value was added during his tenure. The net of which is NEGATIVE $3.5 Billion.Why would someone whose net contribution to a company resulted in its 10-fold devaluation be allowed to walk away with that much money?If only executives were vulnerable to class-action lawsuits from investors…