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Today is Wednesday, Nov. 4, the 308th day of 2009. There are 57 days left in the year.
As Brett Favre heads to Green Bay, the Vikings quarterback is looking spry, chipper and nowhere near his 40 years. He is playing wonderfully, with six victories under his belt, a 102.2 passer rating and the eighth most passing yards in the NFL.
Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2009. There are 58 days left in the year.
Today is Monday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of 2009. There are 66 days left in the year.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $10 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture planned for the National Mall in Washington.
The gall Charlie Manuel is showing right now is nothing new. But you still had to laugh at the Phillies manager’s consistency when someone asked him on the eve of the playoffs last week to clear up the scariest question his defending champion Phillies dragged into the postseason: Who was going to be the Phillies’ closer?
Today is Sunday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2009. There are 74 days left in the year.
Now in its 19th season, "Survivor" has been remarkably resilient. There have been ups and downs, but there's never been a season that was a complete dud. Unfortunately, that streak may be coming to an end with this season, which is so far the closest thing Mark Burnett has ever produced to a complete failure.
Today is Saturday, Oct. 10, the 283rd day of 2009. There are 82 days left in the year.
Somewhere among the grassy hills, canopy trees and 19th century angel sculptures rest Butler and Mary Wilson.
Today is Friday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2009. There are 90 days left in the year.
Another castaway left Samoa, and of course, evil tribe idiot Russell H. was somehow involved.
College students won't be tempted with free goodies to sign up for credit cards come February when new marketing restrictions and other rules will take effect.
Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2009. There are 97 days left in the year.
Some 150 years ago, a congressman from South Carolina, angered by a speech on slavery, entered the Senate chamber and beat a senator from Massachusetts into unconsciousness with a metal-topped wooden cane.
From an 1802 Alaska map made by the Russian Navy to a full-color poster for an 1897 Broadway show on the Klondike Gold Rush, Alaska's history comes alive at the Library of Congress.
Today is Thursday, Sept. 17, the 260th day of 2009. There are 105 days left in the year.
Johnston: It’s the biggest game of the young college-football season — USC at Ohio State — and it has plenty to say about who wins the national championship. And it might have the youngest quarterback matchup of any large game in recent memory.
Notre Dame's offense was flying high as Jimmy Clausen was 15-for-18 for 315 yards and four touchdowns as the No. 23 Fighting Irish opened the season with a 35-0 throttling of Nevada.
Johnston: For starters, there's best all-time team (Florida), player (Tebow) candidates.
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2009. There are 113 days left in the year.
Tamanaha: Season hasn't started and field already down to 3 QBs — what fun is that?
Iron Man, Captain America and Thor may be nearly invincible, but they can also be bought.
Until about 50 years ago, the Canadian and U.S. health care systems were fairly similar — part public and part private, for-profit and nonprofit, with large numbers of people uninsured and shouldering their own medical bills.
An executive shakeup in Boeing Co.'s commercial wing on Monday is the latest wrinkle in the bumpy history of the new-technology 787.
Witness: The News Conference That Toppled the Berlin Wall"Volker Warkentin, a correspondent for the German language service in Berlin, has worked for Reuters for 31 years. In the following story, he describes the East German government news conference on travel freedom that unexpectedly led to the opening of the Berlin."
Animated stereoviews of old Japan In the late 19th and early 20th century, enigmatic photographer T. Enami (1859-1929) captured a number of 3D stereoviews depicting life in Meiji-period Japan
Inside Leonardo's Notebook World-famous as a capital of fashion and design, Italy's second city has a more modest reputation for cultural heritage. Here in the country's business and financial center, local pride focuses on contemporary success rather than past glory.
Reid indicates timetable for health care may slipWASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Democratic leader indicated Tuesday that lawmakers may not complete health care legislation this year, missing President Barack Obama's deadline on his signature issue and pushing debate into a congressional election year.
Uncovering an Ancient Mayan City's Secrets, with world's largest pyramidEl Mirador covered an area larger than downtown Los Angeles, and Hansen believes it may be home to thousands of other pyramids, Baldwin said. The city was active from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 100.
Bosnian researchers develop online war crimes mapResearchers in Sarajevo presented an online tool Tuesday showing the locations of Bosnian war crimes in what they called an attempt to prevent death toll numbers from being manipulated and misused.
Sacred studiesJim Krehbiel was up past midnight making a piece of art by layering maps and field notes onto photos he had taken of an ancient ritual site high on a cliff ledge in the desert Southwest.
Deforestation the Death of Nazca CivilizationThe mystery of the disappearance of the vanished Nazca people, the same ones who are known for the many fanciful designs etched into the desert plateau, may have been solved. Scientists found pollen from a vanished nitrogen-fixing tree, the huarango.
Berlin Wall Anniversary Sparks Look At History November 9 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
How many has Sadaam Hussein KilledThis Article is being seeded with a historical outlook on the reasons George Bush attacked Iraq...Weather you agree with the premise that there we're no Nuclear weapons..is not the issue here..The issue is weather or not we we're justified in Removing this mass murderer from powe …
Congressman BoydHistory is what I think of when I think of Congressman Allan Boyd and that is what the voter should make of him and those like him. HISTORY!!
Why Germany can't get over the WallThe East German Government maintained its power by subjecting the people to fear and intimidation by its secret police.
Gail Collins explores 'When Everything Changed' in a scintilating book about feminism on the groundIn the 1960s, Linda McDaniels of Kansas came upon the deed to her marital home. It read: "John McDaniel and spouse."
Georgia: Luxury Hotel Goes Up On Stalin - Era Secret Prison SiteSecret prison cells from the Stalin era have been discovered on a Tbilisi construction site for a $90-million luxury hotel for the international Kempinski Hotel chain
November 1, 2009 Hukkie Ledbetter, Johnson Publishing Company, Alcorn A&M University, and More!!! This Week's Information On African American History
My little bug and I made our trip...We didn't have time to get to everything that we had planed so we will be taking another trip...Little Bug really enjoyed going to the Grave Yard.
Writing Jews out of Jerusalem's historyAside from the agitation is the disturbing notion that Jews seeking to visit, or even pray at, their holiest place of worship (the Temple Mount and not merely the Western Wall) should be seen as provocation, desecration or in any other way unacceptable.
Divers probe Mayan ruins submerged in Guatemala lakeScuba divers are exploring the depths of a volcanic lake in Guatemala to find clues about an ancient sacred island where Mayan pilgrims flocked to worship before it was submerged by rising waters.
A City Untouched by ConservatismDetroit. The most liberal city in the nation. Also the most violent and destitute city in the country. This is a city run, and run into the ground, by liberals and unions. This is our future under Obama and "progressives."
Desegregation, Again or the Old Assimilation/Genocidal StrategyWe were like the blind stumbling on the stones of ignorance comrades! that's how they wanted us the bishop the companies the mineowners! heads of blacks empty and head and shoulders ready to carry a mountain. Ignorant looking at written words when in them our price …
Just 30 per cent of voters back her, so how low can Anna Bligh go? | The Courier-Mail
Halloween: a history of All Hallows' Eve, from Samhain to trick-or-treat The origins of the festival Hallowe'en seems to have grown around the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain, marking the end of the light half of the year and the beginning of the dark half.
Has the original Labyrinth been found?Archaeologists shed new light on the inspiration for the Greek myth. Steve Connor reports
The White Witch of Rose HallMany of the slaves were practitioners of the art, and in order to curry favor and live longer, they taught Annie everything they knew about magic, particularly Voodoo. This was to include human sacrifice, particularly of infants, whose bones she used in practicing the black magic.
Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims - TelegraphThe memoirs of the last SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler are to be published in a move historians say could cast away the last shred of doubt over his personal involvement in the Holocaust.
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