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This seemingly innocuous three-bed end-of-terrace house in Clondalkin has become an internet sensation since recently going on the market for €185,000. No 44 Harelawn Drive – or the Marilyn Mansion, as some wags have dubbed it – conceals behind its ordinary facade a wall-to-wall shrine to screen icon Marilyn Monroe.
T... | 346 |
Brocade will buy Riverbed’s SteelApp application delivery controller business in an all-cash deal to flesh out its data center and service provider portfolio.
Networking solutions vendor Brocade (BRCD) said it will buy Riverbed’s (RVBD) SteelApp application delivery controller (ADC) business in an all-cash deal whose ... | 337 |
2015 Cotton Bowl: MSU Sunday practice
Michigan State co-defensive coordinator Harlon Barnett is regarded as one of the finest defensive backs coaches in the nation, producing first-round picks each of the past two seasons. Barnett, however, committed a violation when he played a pickup basketball game when a prospect ... | 585 |
The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) is the U.S. Army's institute for strategic and national security research and analysis. It is part of the U.S. Army War College. SSI conducts strategic research and analysis to support the U.S. Army War College curricula, provides direct analysis for Army and Department of Defense ... | 522 |
Zama Lake is a large lake in Mackenzie County, in north-western Alberta, Canada.
Major Ernest Wilson Hubbell, Chief Inspector of the Dominion Land Survey, recorded the name "Zammah River" in his field notes as the transliteration of the name of a Slavey Chief (Slavey Indians are now known as the Dene Tha' First Nation... | 247 |
Mae Beavers (born December 11, 1947 in Millport, Alabama) is an American politician. A Republican, she was a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 17th district from 2003 until she resigned to run for governor in August 2017. The 17th district is composed of Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Macon, Smith, and Wilson counties. Pri... | 786 |
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MOM's Second Anniversary at Mars
On Mars Orbiter Mission’s (MOM) second anniversary of Mars arrival, ISRO has (finally!) made available to the public data from its first year in orbit. As expected, there are no dramatically new science results. The most anticipated results were from t... | 728 |
The Convention Center District is an area in southern downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It lies south of the Government District, north of the Cedars, west of the Farmers Market District, and east of the Reunion District. Visitdallas is contracted by the City to attract conventions, although an audit released in January 2... | 126 |
The La Crosse Rail Bridge is a swing bridge that spans the Mississippi River between La Crescent, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin. The first bridge in this location initially was designed and ready to build by June 1876, and was completed in November 1876 by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, a predecessor of the C... | 1,054 |
Up until now, the focus had been on the tropical north-east of the country, in Pernambuco, where the disease was first spotted and linked to a spike in cases of newborns with unusually small heads, or microcephaly, because of restricted fetal brain development. But the release of the first figures since it became a not... | 1,034 |
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Verizon's and AT&T's reactive moves to expand unlimited data plans may be stifling their network speeds, according to T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray.
A nosedive in megabits p... | 426 |
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s economy contracted by a shock 2.3 percent in the fourth quarter, data showed on Thursday, denting a recovery that picked up steam elsewhere as the country made a successful return to regular bond auctions and sold at record-low yields.
Ireland raised 1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) from 10-... | 677 |
As confirmed by various outlets, character actress Betsy Palmer has died. She was 88.
Palmer was best known to modern audiences as Pamela Voorhees, the mother of the immortal, mask-wearing killer Jason Voorhees from the Friday The 13th films—though fans of the series will note that Pamela herself is the killer in the ... | 271 |
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Dear Emily Yoffe,
On behalf of the numerous women who have been sexually assaulted while drunk, I beg you to reconsider your opinion that teaching girls not to drink will prevent rape.
Your recent Slate article, ‘College Women: Stop Getting Drunk,’ oversimplifies th... | 1,406 |
Anonymous has turned its attentions from corporations to pedophiles with the news that the hacktivist group has taken down multiple child pornography sites, including one of the largest known, with account details of its 1589 users being posted online as evidence.
The incident was just part of something Anonymous is c... | 330 |
Antonino Gilligan "Tony" Consiglio (born May 28, 1970, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American cartoonist. He has had two graphic novels, More or Less and 110 Percent, published by Top Shelf Comics.
Biography
Education
Consiglio was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Queens, where he spent the first thirty-one years of ... | 261 |
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets Russian President Vladimir Putin as he arrives for the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday that UN peacekeepers might be deploye... | 137 |
Everyone is raving about Armenia’s Genealogy after their first rehearsal, and the members were still in high spirits when we interviewed them shortly afterwards.
Mary-Jean said that she’s “inspired by everyone in the band” and that it pushes her to be “as excellent as (she) can be”, with Stephanie also saying that the... | 140 |
Fleisher Yarn began as an amateur company soccer club of the SB & BW Fleisher Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia and quickly became a national amateur soccer power. They won the Philadelphia Industrial League championship in 1920/21, both the Allied Amateur Cup of Philadelphia and Philadelphia's Telegraph Cup in 192... | 143 |
Satan Girl is a fictional supervillain from the Supergirl series of comics. Originally, she was an evil duplicate of Kara Zor-El created by red kryptonite in Adventure Comics #313 (1963). She attempted to kill Supergirl's fellow female Legionnaires so she could sustain her independent existence.
Satan Girl reappears i... | 603 |
NEW DELHI: How about a pizza being delivered at your home by an UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle )? Or getting a courier through this flying machine? Or spying with a UAV as small as a butterfly which perches itself on a windowsill? Sounds like sci-fi ? Experts say this could well become a reality.While UAVs have been widel... | 504 |
Reaching Horizons is a demo-tape by the Brazilian power metal band Angra released in 1993 through Limb Music. The original cassette contained six songs, with some re-recorded for their debut album Angels Cry. In 1997, the record-company re-released the album, adding three bonus tracks. It is the only release by the ban... | 104 |
Inipit is a Filipino flat pastry made of flour, milk, lard, and sugar that have various filling sandwiched in between two sheets of the pastry. The name inipit means "pressed in between" or "sandwiched" in Tagalog.
Originally, the filling consists of a sweetened mashed potato mixture but other fillings especially cust... | 109 |
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi () (born August 14, 1975)
is a former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah.
Ansar-e Hezbollah used violence against students which caused Ebrahimi to decide that, "No, Ansar-e Hezbollah is wrong, you the students are right."
"Confessions"
Ebrahimi was also sentenced and spent two years in prison.
Iden... | 187 |
Samppa Lajunen (born 23 April 1979 in Turku) is a retired Finnish Nordic combined athlete who competed during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Athletic career
A winner of five Winter Olympic Games medals, his career highlight came at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City when Lajunen won all three gold medals in t... | 261 |
Earl Lawrence Mindell (born January 20, 1940) is a Canadian-American writer and nutritionist who is a strong advocate of nutrition as preventive healthcare and homeopathy.
Early life and education
Mindell was born to parents William and Minerva on January 20, 1940, in Saint Boniface, Manitoba. He immigrated to the Un... | 575 |
[More Info] Evidence of coca chewing by people in northwestern Peru. Archaeologists have found both chewed leaves and calcium-rich rocks that would have provided the lime that is used to this day in conjunction with coca chewing. Evidence suggests it was produced as a community activity at about the same time as system... | 1,060 |
Championship promotion hopefuls QPR came from behind to claim a point against Leeds, but their winless run was extended to five matches.
Ross McCormack, who had earlier seen a penalty saved by Rob Green, gave Leeds the lead with a deflected free-kick.
The hosts levelled just before the break when Jermaine Jenas slott... | 534 |
Place Tokyo (Japan)
Date February 18th, 2017 (Sat.)
Description
16 top level players selected via previous tournament qualifiers (or invites) will battle it out until the 4 finalists (FOUR KINGS) have been decided.
* Accommodation and transportation expenses involved in arriving at the tournament venue will be born... | 179 |
So, the Edmonton Oilers don’t have the number one overall pick in this year’s draft (hooray for slight improvement!), but not to worry Oil Country, this year’s draft is pretty deep and the Oilers need some help. The defensive unit in Edmonton was downright dreadful at times allowing opponents to shoot the puck 40+ time... | 688 |
Immigration: Some 53% of Democrats want illegal aliens to have the vote,
according to a new poll. Naturally: Why wouldn't they want millions of
new members for their party and its Big Government agenda?
When it comes to likely voters in all categories of the population, Rasmussen Reports has found that 60% don't wan... | 456 |
CAIRO — Militants carried out a devastating ambush on a convoy of Egyptian police and security officials deep inside the western desert late Friday in the deadliest such attack in years, security officials said on Saturday.
At least 59 Egyptian police officers and security officials were killed, security officials sai... | 167 |
Hezqeyas was a member of the Solomonic dynasty who was proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia from 1736 to 1737 by a group of notables opposed to Emperor Iyasu II. Hezqeyas had been confined to the royal prison on Mount Wehni until freed by his supporters, and had little influence over the early events.
James Bruce mentions a... | 847 |
Security firm G4S’ vision for Heavens new pearly gates
In an announcement that rocked global financial markets today the Kingdom of Heaven has revealed it is to outsource much of its operation to the private sector. Numerous invitations to tender have been sent across industry with perimeter security and IT modernisat... | 846 |
Peter Bennett (May 10, 1935 – November 22, 2012) was a popular music promoter who worked with several prominent artists including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra and the Jackson 5.
Peter Bennett was born as Pietro Benedetto in the Bronx, New York. As a distant cousin to singer ... | 1,274 |
The Brazilian gracile opossum (Gracilinanus microtarsus) is a species of small opossum from Brazil.
Description
Brazilian gracile opossums are relatively small opossums, with males ranging from and females from in snout-to-rump length. The tail is an additional several inches, and makes up between 30 and 50% of the ... | 548 |
The MS Pride of Telemark was a ferry which previously sailed between Dover and Calais for P&O Ferries and Stena Line.
History
Built at Chantiers de France, Dunkerque and completed in 1983 as the Stena Jutlandica she sailed for Stena Line between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn until 1996 when she was replaced by a new f... | 324 |
Mattis freezes Trump's ban on transgender
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Tuesday that he is freezing President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military, saying that he will first establish a panel of experts to provide advice and recommendations on how to carry out Trump's ... | 363 |
Wendell Castle (November 6, 1932 – January 20, 2018) was an American sculptor and furniture maker and an important figure in late 20th century American craft. He has been referred to as the "father of the art furniture movement" and included in the "Big 4" of modern woodworking with Wharton Esherick, George Nakashima,... | 972 |
More than 20 species of birds of prey will be on display during the 15th annual Eagle Days event Jan. 23-24 at Wyandotte County Lake Park.
There will be free educational presentations for the public about birds of prey, including live eagles, hawks, falcons, owls and other raptors.
Last year’s event drew almost 1,000... | 307 |
Two women accused of killing of North Korean leader King Jong Un's half-brother have been brought back to where the attack took place.
Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 29, returned to Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where they allegedly threw VX nerve gas into the face of Kim Jong Nam.
An entourage... | 288 |
The SEIU Local 660 was a local union of the Service Employees International Union in the United States. It represented 50,000 Los Angeles County employees. It later merged with Local 721.
External links
Official site
Service Employees International Union
Trade unions in California
Organizations based in Los Angeles | 48 |
"SITH" SPOILERS You've been warned... - "Revenge of the Sith" is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the "Star Wars" prequel the haters have been bitching for since "Menace" came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying. As dark as "Empire" was, this movie goes a thousand times dar... | 980 |
Le Fil is the second album by French singer–songwriter Camille. First released in 2005, the album was reissued with four bonus tracks in 2006 in the United States, the UK and Australia. The title translates as "The Thread".
The album features a low-level drone (a B tone) in the background of every song, which Camille ... | 315 |
While 100 cities across North America are thought to be preparing bids to convince Amazon to locate their second headquarters in their city, Seattle resident, technologist and activist Jeff Reifman says that having Amazon locate a headquarters in your city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Reifman spoke to David Gray on... | 768 |
Robert Joseph Ayala (born July 8, 1969) is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs and Montreal Expos.
Career
Ayala went to high school at Rio Mesa in Oxnard, California. He was brought up with the Reds as a starter before moving to the bullpen in his se... | 320 |
OTTAWA — Four minutes into the first working day of the new year, Canada's best-paid CEOs had already pulled in what the average Canadian worker earns in a year, an economic and social policy think-tank said in a critical analysis of pay scales for the rich and powerful.
Or at least that's what they pulled in during 2... | 681 |
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump says he hasn't spoken to Barr about Mueller report Ex-Trump aide: Can’t imagine Mueller not giving House a ‘roadmap’ to impeachment Rosenstein: My time at DOJ is 'coming to an end' MORE said Thursday that he wouldn't rule out appointing a special ... | 347 |
AUSTRALIA'S MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner has launched a stinging attack on Valentino Rossi following the Italian icon's move back to Yamaha.
Rossi will saddle up again with Yamaha after a failed campaign with Ducati, on which Stoner won his first world title before switching to Honda.
Stoner has accused Rossi o... | 405 |
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‘Give me enough rebar and an oxyacetylene torch and I’ll line the border with giant nude Amazons.’ – Armando Muñoz Garcia
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Rising a triumphant five stories from a refuse-strewn ravine, Tijuana’s “La Mona,” Armando Muñoz Garcia’s 18-ton naked-as-the-day-you-were-born sculpture/home, is the architectural incarnate ... | 1,059 |
Unless you’re talking about motherhood and apple pie, it’s nearly impossible to get 80 percent of voters to agree on anything. Well, you can add clean energy to the list.
According to a poll released last month by Fallon Research, nearly 80 percent of Ohio voters support laws requiring the state to produce a portion o... | 609 |
John Crossan may refer to:
Johnny Crossan (born 1938), Northern Irish footballer
John Dominic Crossan (born 1934), Irish-American religious scholar | 20 |
Now That's What I Call Music! (simply titled NOW) was released on October 27, 1998. Modeled after the highly successful Now That's What I Call Music! series in the United Kingdom, which compiles a number of songs that are popular around the time of its release, this album is the first edition of the Now! series in the ... | 132 |
According to Erving Goffman a role set is the various kinds of relevant audiences for a particular role. Robert K. Merton describes "role set" as the "complement of social relationships in which persons are involved because they occupy a particular social status." For instance, the role of a doctor has a role set compr... | 94 |
Friday, Ed wrote about CNN’s big scoop involving a shadowy figure emailing Wikileaks material full of Democratic emails to Donald Trump Jr. before the material was publicly released. As we all now know, that scoop was completely false. CNN eventually issued a correction explaining that two sources had given them the wr... | 1,165 |
Sylvester John Hemleben was born February 25, 1902, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, a descendant of an ancient German family which emigrated to America to practice medicine and pharmacy in pioneer Wisconsin.
Hemleben received the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iowa, the Doctor of Philosoph... | 260 |
What does it mean to be from the Pacific Northwest?
Is there such a thing as Cascadian culture?
Christ & Cascadia was founded a couple of months ago on a rather simple conviction. If Christians truly wish to connect with this little corner of the world, they will need to take some time to listen, explore, and underst... | 1,611 |
"Bingo" (also known as "Bingo Was His Name-O", "There Was a Farmer Had a Dog" or "B-I-N-G-O") is an English language children's song and folksong of obscure origin. Additional verses are sung by omitting the first letter sung in the previous verse and clapping or barking the number of times instead of actually saying e... | 598 |
Thorin's CS:GO Top 10 World Rankings is a series of periodically released articles, where Counter-Strike analyst Duncan "Thorin" Shields provides his current perspective on what he believes are the 10 best Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams in the world.
List of articles [ edit ]
# 2018 46 December 11 Article 45 ... | 242 |
Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo (born 18 September 1978) is a Spanish actress. She won a Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance playing Joanna of Castile in 2001 film Mad Love.
Family
Born in Madrid, López de Ayala has an older brother named Rodrigo López de Ayala Arroyo (b. 1975). Their parents are Rodrigo Lópe... | 761 |
Fielfraz was a Danish band, which had its heyday between 1990 and 1996. The band members were Claus Hempler on guitar and vocals, Nils Brakchi on bass, Kenneth Priisholm on guitar (lead) and Jens Langhorn on drums.
After several years of building up a live reputation in Odense, Fielfraz broke through with their very f... | 299 |
Palin Backstab? Commissioner Praised Then Fired Exclusive Video Shows Sarah Palin Praising Commissioner, Just Months Before She Fired Him
Advocates for women's issues in Alaska have come to the defense of the state's former public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, abruptly fired by Governor Sarah Palin in July.
Mone... | 810 |
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Got an idea for how virtual reality could revolutionize education? The White House suggests six ways you could get funding to make it a reality.
Education is one of the most obvious use-cases for VR; its ability to immerse and engage gives it massive potential to revolution... | 624 |
The Department of Homeland Security intends to monitor the social media accounts and internet search history of legal immigrants as part of a new tracking system set to roll out next month.
The policy applies to not just immigration applicants, but also to naturalized U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. It g... | 595 |
Photo: The Howard Stern Show
Sitting in on the News with Robin and Howard Monday morning as a special guest commentator and conspiracy theory expert was none other than former Minnesota Governor "Jesse Ventura" (aka James Adomian).
Jesse had had an opinion about everything from the moon landing (the landing was real,... | 243 |
Data security startup Guardtime has announced a partnership with the Estonian eHealth Foundation that will see it deploy a blockchain-based system to secure over 1 million patient healthcare records.
Under the deal, the foundation will integrate Guardtime‘s keyless signature infrastructure (KSI) blockchain into the fo... | 477 |
Zirconium(IV) chloride, also known as zirconium tetrachloride, () is an inorganic compound frequently used as a precursor to other compounds of zirconium. This white high-melting solid hydrolyzes rapidly in humid air.
Structure
Unlike molecular TiCl4, solid ZrCl4 adopts a polymeric structure wherein each Zr is octahed... | 488 |
In collaboration with privacy and civil rights organizations, Amnesty International launched Detekt, an app that enables people to scan their devices for traces of surveillance spyware, created with activists and journalists in mind.
The free web tool, backed by Amnesty International and developed by German-based secu... | 517 |
It’s the All Star break, a time when the very best professional baseball players have to travel for work and the rest get a four-day vacation. It’s also the dead of summer, when the Houston art world generally slows to a trickle and creative group shows compete for the attention of whoever’s not in Aspen. So in honor o... | 650 |
The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research today said 10-balloon flights will be launched from here for scientific purposes from November 15 to April 30, 2017 with the support of the Department of Atomic Energy and ISRO.
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B Suneel Kumar, Scientist–in–charge TIFR in a statement said the balloons, which carr... | 284 |
Canada’s central bank may shift focus away from the current measure of core prices when it renews an inflation-targeting agreement with the government next year.
The Bank of Canada’s current benchmark of core prices that excludes eight volatile items such as fresh fruit is underperforming relative to other indexes und... | 291 |
Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC) (Argentine Society of Music Authors and Composers) is the entity that gathers all musicians and authors of Argentina, and the Argentine performance rights organisation that keeps registry of musical works, and collects and distributes royalties on behalf o... | 246 |
The L-series (; Linke) trains are temporary trains run by railway bureaus of the People's Republic of China at times when they are thought to be necessary, such as the Chunyun period.
History
1940–1960
The very first L-series trains appeared during the Anti-Japanese war, when the national railway network was entirel... | 423 |
Update: deGrasse Tyson’s nephew, who raps under the name Tyson, has responded to B.o.B on deGrasse Tyson’s behalf with an NDT-approved diss track set to the beat from Drake’s “Back to Back.” Listen below:
B.o.B likes to pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, but believing that the earth is ro... | 212 |
Ab Band is a district in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Its population, which is almost entirely Pashtun, was estimated at 41,340 in 2002. The district is within the heartland of the Tarakai tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns. Ab Band is on the main road from Kabul to Kandahar. The district capital is Āb Band.
Politics and Gover... | 376 |
Passwords (Japanese: あいことば, Ai Kotoba) are event codes that the player can use to obtain rare items that
are not easily or cannot be found or obtained through the game.
To input the passwords, go to the post office in Castele Square, then talk to the Password Clerk behind the counter.
You need to complete Flutter's ... | 223 |
Season 4, Episode 2
April 21, 2017
It is the rite of passage of international Skam fandom.
Given that the series’ global reach grew exponentially only recently, during the show’s third season, most viewers never experienced the show happening in real time. While I knew while watching the show that each “episode” I w... | 1,917 |
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Metroidvania games seamlessly combine the classic elements of Metroid and Castlevania – two video game series that merge the heat of battle and the joy of world exploration. Most (but not all) of the best Metroidvania games involve 2D (or 2.5D) platforming, requiring players to non-linearly traverse back-and-fo... | 815 |
John Arthur Duttine (born 15 March 1949) is an English actor noted for his roles on stage, films and television. He is well known for his role as Sgt George Miller in Heartbeat and also Bill Masen in the TV series The Day of the Triffids.
Early life
Duttine was born on 15 March 1949 in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshi... | 663 |
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday the cache of 8,700 alleged CIA files released by WikiLeaks seemed to be legitimate — and "genuinely a big deal." The watchdog organization claimed the classified documents, called “Vault 7,” came from the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence.
"Still... | 356 |
My Mom’s recipe for Peanut Butter Balls is huge hit every Christmas. Of all of the desserts and candies baked for the holidays, these delicious creamy Peanut Butter Balls really stand out for their exceptional flavor and fun, bite-sized shape. The filling is made of butter, peanut butter, confectioner’s sugar and Rice ... | 264 |
Dugdale is a surname and may refer to:
Adam Dugdale (born 1987), English footballer
Alan Dugdale (born 1952), English footballer
Alex Dugdale, American saxophonist and jazz performer
Andrew Dugdale, fictional former Prime Minister of Australia in The Ex-PM
Arthur Dugdale (1869–1941), British Army officer
Blanche Dugdal... | 389 |
The Edmonton Eskimos faced the Montreal Alouettes in the Grey Cup game for the third consecutive year. And for the third consecutive year, the Edmonton Eskimos were Grey Cup champions. It was the first time in a Grey Cup that a touchdown was worth six points instead of five.
Canadian Football News in 1956
On Sunday, J... | 800 |
USS Hayter (DE-212/APD-80) was a Buckley-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. In 1967, she was transferred to South Korea where she served as ROKS Jonnam until 1986.
History
United States Navy (1943–1967)
Hayter was launched by Charleston Navy Yard, con 11 November 1943; sp... | 781 |
November 2001
Berlin, New York
I thought I'd gotten away, or at least as far away as I needed -- far enough to be safe.
It was a quiet and solitary sort of day: A Saturday by myself in the gable-roofed carriage house with stone steps that my boyfriend Neil and I rented in a small town in upstate New York. I was sitt... | 1,134 |
Horst-Dieter Höttges (10 September 1943 – 22 June 2023) was a German professional footballer who played as a sweeper or right-back. Having started his career with hometown club Borussia Mönchengladbach, he spent most of his career with Werder Bremen. He made 420 Bundesliga appearances for Werder Bremen, a club record f... | 734 |
The women at the back table of the Bottleneck bar on Granville Street are a cluster of long locks, funky accessories, a mix of tanned and fair, naturally athletic bodies and discreetly dabbed lip gloss. The conversation about the impossibility of finding man-love in Lotus Land ricochets between raucous laughter and tho... | 1,603 |
Jeffrey Peter Buzen (born May 28, 1943) is an American computer scientist in system performance analysis best known for his contributions to queueing theory. His PhD dissertation (available as https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0731575) and his 1973 paper Computational algorithms for closed queueing networks with expo... | 628 |
In a speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Barack Obama urged Americans to avoid discriminating against Muslims in the wake of last week's shooting in San Bernardino, California.
"Muslim-Americans are our friends and our neighbors; our co-workers, our sports heroes -- and, yes, they are our men and wo... | 496 |
BRISTOL, CONN – The Holbrook Little League All-Stars can pack their bags for Williamsport, Pa., the site of the Little League Baseball World Series.
They punched their ticket to youth baseball’s version of the Super Bowl with an 8-3 win over Thurmont (Md.) on Saturday night in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament cham... | 515 |
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A woman falsely told police she had been raped after having sex with a man on a train after their first date.
Karen Farmer, 35, mad... | 486 |
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Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Seán Lincoln in Episodes, Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups, Andrew in Bliss (2018), and Nathan ... | 2,148 |
Paul Routier, MBE is a member of the States of Jersey since he was elected in 1993, and is an Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister of Jersey since 25 November 2011.
Political career
Routier was first elected as Deputy for St Helier No. 2 district in the 1993 elections and served for three terms (nine years) before... | 246 |
Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.
In 1978, Corker founded a construction co... | 6,939 |
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption China is experiencing a growing problem of financial fraud
Li Wenxing was starting a new life. In May, the young university graduate left his home in rural China on the offer of work with a software company in the city of Tianjin.
But the job was a scam and Mr Li was swept i... | 825 |
ݙ is an additional letter of the Arabic script, not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki to represent a voiced alveolar implosive, .
Its other form is also found in Saraiki Spoken in Jhang in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, .
It is written as ॾ in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.
... | 160 |
Artist’s rendering of a scaled down Sierra Nevada Corp. Dream Chaser mini-shuttle launched by Stratolaunch Systems. (Photo: Sierra Nevada Corp.)
Although it lost a bid to launch NASA astronauts, a smaller version of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle could still launch people from Kennedy Space Center if ... | 945 |
Hypermasculinity is a psychological and sociological term for the exaggeration of male stereotypical behavior, such as an emphasis on physical strength, aggression, and human male sexuality. Within psychology, this term has been used ever since the publication of research by Donald L. Mosher and Mark Sirkin in 1984. Mo... | 1,818 |
The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen, Germany. It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, under the name "Cyclo Tower".
The Condor has 28 steel-framed gondolas, each with a fiberglass shell, frequently painted to resemble a bird. The seats hold one to two people, one sitt... | 422 |
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