"Pvt. 1st Class Christopher Mullen grew up with "about a million" Airborne stories. When he graduated from Airborne School Friday, he reminisced about some of the anecdotes his grandfather, Darrell Branstetter,...
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Charles Darwin created a big controversy with his evolutionary theory and powerful church leaders castigated him. Now after 126 long years Church of England has realised their mistake and agreed to issue an an apology. Darwin in his theory had said that man descended from the...
"I cannot help being anxious about what's happening to Georgia. My daughter is in Tbilisi with my grandson. Her husband, Sandro Kvitashvili, is the minister of health and social services. I don't know how dangerous his job is each day, whether he is on the streets, possibly...
On holidays like today, there is often an exchange of gifts.If there is one thing that I would be grateful or should I say thrilled to get as a present on this occasion, it would be 2 or 3 plane tickets to France so I can visit with my wife and kids and finally meet my...
" John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by...
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"The victims of the Irish Famine are to be remembered in an annual official memorial day, which is to be established in the Republic of Ireland.It is believed that about one million people in Ireland starved in...
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Mao Xinyu is Chinese royalty, well, as close to royalty as possible in a communist state. The grandson of Chairman Mao recently conducted an interview with Xinkuaibao and the following are excerpts from a Danwei.org post. "Mao Xinyu (毛新宇), holder of a PhD on...
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AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...
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"How could 94-year-old 'slip out?' family asks
By J. Harry Jones
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 27, 2007
ESCONDIDO – A 94-year-old woman who wandered away from a nursing home early Thanksgiving morning and was then struck and killed by a car was wearing an alarm...
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"Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke down and sobbed after he knocked down a 10-year-old-boy outside a school.
Jamie Halliwell ran into the side of the footballer's Bentley - but escaped with only a broken...
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I have often wondered where Welford is located and what lies within this unknown place. Welford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire, situated in the valley of the River Lambourn to the...
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A 66-year-old Brazilian man wrestled with a 15-foot (5-metre) anaconda for nearly half an hour to free his grandson from the snake's crushing death grip, local media reported on Friday.
Matheus Pereira de Araujo, 8, would likely be dead inside the belly of the 80 pound (35...
"On Saturday a 56-year-old woman was unloading her valuables into the plastic bins at security in the LA Airport and apparently thought she should include her month-old grandson in the screening process. A...
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" YONKERS, N.Y. - Malcolm X's grandson was arrested Thursday after punching a doughnut shop window, sending shattered glass onto two patrons, police said. Malcolm Shabazz, 21, was picked up in Mount Vernon, Yonkers police said. He was charged with reckless endangerment,...
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