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Buddhist relic collection tours North America and world

Saturday, November 25, 2006 With the hopes of funding the creation of a statue in northern India that would end up dwarfing the Statue of Liberty, an unprecedented collection of Buddhist artifacts continue crisscrossing American, Europe, and Asia in three different, but related collections. The Maitreya Project, the brainchild of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, seeks to…
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July 11, 2022 0

First Active offer 100% mortgages in Ireland

Thursday, July 14, 2005 First Active has become the first financial institution to offer 100% mortgages in the Republic of Ireland. The bank previously offered 100% financing to professionals in finance and medicine, but is now to offer this product to anyone who can afford to meet the repayments. The development is a huge boost…
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July 10, 2022 0

United States: Two killed, more than a hundred injured in Amtrak train collision in South Carolina

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Early on Sunday morning, Amtrak’s passenger train number 91, the Silver Star, bound for Miami from New York, slammed into a stationary CSX freight train in Cayce, about ten miles (16 km) south of Columbia, capital of the US state of South Carolina. Two Amtrak employees were killed and at least…
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July 8, 2022 0

Ice Breakers On A First Date

Click Here To Find Out More About: Hotel Gosford Ice breakers on a first date by Jack Walters Meeting someone for the first time can be very intimidating. You know what you want to say, you have jokes prepared and interesting stories about yourself, but when you meet your date all of your planning goes…
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July 7, 2022 0

Wikinews interviews candidate for New York City mayor Vitaly Filipchenko

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 In early May, Wikinews extended an invitation to Vitaly Filipchenko, an independent candidate in the 2021 New York City mayoral election, set to take place November 2nd, alongside other candidates. Filipchenko answered some questions about his policies and campaign during a phone interview. Filipchenko, registered on the New York City Campaign…
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July 3, 2022 0

Suspect in eight murders arrested in Illinois, United States

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Following a manhunt in two states, police have arrested Nicholas Troy Sheley whom authorities suspect in eight murders in the United States. The FBI launched the manhunt on Tuesday after four victims were discovered on June 30, 2008. Sheley was arrested without incident after being recognized in a bar in Granite…
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July 1, 2022 0

How the Army Corps of Engineers closed one New Orleans breach

Friday, September 9, 2005 New Orleans, Louisiana —After Category 4 storm Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, on the night before August 29, 2005, several flood control constructions failed. Much of the city flooded through the openings. One of these was the flood wall forming one side of the 17th Street Canal, near Lake Pontchartrain.…
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June 29, 2022 0

When And How To Get Construction Equipment Leasing

Click Here To Find Out More About: Buy Pneumatic Hammers When and How to Get Construction Equipment Leasing by Bob v Newman Construction Equipment Leasing is a type of leasing arrangement where a small business owner (like you) would like to get Construction Equipment but at a lower cost than when you buy the Construction…
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June 26, 2022 0

JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect back in America

Monday, August 21, 2006 John Mark Carr, the man who has been accused of killing six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey ten years ago, has arrived in the US after being extradited from Bangkok in Thailand. The forty-one year-old American schoolteacher was escorted by US security officials from Bangkok, but officers from the Los Angeles Police Department accompanied…
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June 25, 2022 0

New York bridge shut down after suspicious truck found

Thursday, May 6, 2010 New York Police Department spokesperson Paul Browne said that New York City’s Triborough Bridge was shut down after a U-Haul truck with Arizona state license plates was found abandoned. The truck reportedly smelled of gasoline according to the toll booth operator. Officials reported that the police department’s bomb squad investigated the…
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June 24, 2022 0