Monday, December 24, 2007 Oscar Peterson, a Canadian jazz pianist who earned many honours during his decades-long career, died Sunday in Mississauga, Ontario aged 82. The Montreal-born Peterson learned to play piano in childhood and by the 1940s was actively performing in Canadian big bands such as the Johnny Holmes Orchestra. A groundbreaking performance at […]
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Saturday, November 26, 2011 At least three people died today and seventeen more were injured after a road bridge collapsed on the Indonesian island of Borneo. At least three cars, several motorbikes, and a public bus all fell into the Mahakam River. The bridge was constructed from concrete roughly a decade ago to resemble California’s […]
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Click Here To Know More About: Bad Credit Loans Australia Aistralian Premier Finance Website bytimothyharvard Auto loans in Wichita, KS, are made available to individuals with different credit records. Almost all banks in Wichita, KS, offers auto loans to the needy customers. There are also some loan lenders that work together with financing companies. Usually, […]
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Monday, June 11, 2007 Anti-junta demonstrations in Bangkok reached their largest point yet on Saturday night, when between 10,000 and 15,000 protesters marched from Sanam Luang to the Royal Thai Army headquarters to call for the resignation of Council for National Security chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin. Yesterday, Sonthi, the leader of last year’s coup d’état, […]
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Sunday, August 5, 2012 The following is the ninth in a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2012 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after a brief mention of some of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s edition on the campaign trail: the rules of third party candidate polling are […]
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December 26, 2018
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Full-length open source movie ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ is released online
Full-length open source movie ‘Boy Who Never Slept’ is released online
Monday, July 3, 2006 Amateur filmmaker Solomon Rothman has released a full-length open source movie called ‘Boy Who Never Slept.’ The movie is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license; this allows people to use, edit, or share the movie in any way (except commercially) as long as they credit the creators. All of […]
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December 25, 2018
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Britain’s Royal Windsor Castle to get hydro-electric power plant
Britain’s Royal Windsor Castle to get hydro-electric power plant
Monday, July 25, 2005 Windsor Castle, one of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom’s official residences, is to get a hydro-electric power scheme. The £1 million project will consist of a series of under-water turbines to be installed at Romney Weir in the nearby River Thames. The system will generate 200kW, enough to meet […]
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December 25, 2018
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Wikinews interviews biologist Chris Simon about periodical cicadas
Wikinews interviews biologist Chris Simon about periodical cicadas
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 In May, periodical cicadas with 17 years life cycle emerged on the East Coast of the USA after underground development as juveniles since 1996. Researchers and scientists worked to map and study the rare wave, and the locals prepared for the noisy event. First recorded in 1666, the Magicicada septendecim species […]
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Sunday, December 19, 2004 CRAIG, Alaska –Rachelle Waterman, (aka Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman and “smchyrocky”), a 16-year-old girl from Craig, Alaska, USA, has been charged with the first degree murder of her mother. The case has rapidly received a wide following on the Internet, partly because Waterman kept a public record of her thoughts and […]
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012 The following is the fifth in a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2012 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after a brief mention of some of the month’s biggest stories. In this month’s edition on the campaign trail, a politician from outside the fifty states receives […]
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