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Maine Fast Fact: The L.L. Bean boot that stands outside the company’s store in Freeport, Maine is 22 feet tall. Births: 1901: Marlene Dietrich,...
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The charge of "resisting arrest" is a funny thing. One may imagine that it was devised so that murderers, rapists or robbers who...
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Related articles Octomom Nadya Suleman heads to court over fate of octuplets Balloon boy's parents, Richard...
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Many in the media are crying foul because the romantic story line between Bradley Cooper ("The Hangover") and Eric Dane...
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Why do all the zippers I've ever seen have the letters YKK on the pull tabs? -- J.P. That's the trademark of Yoshida Kogyo...
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The Democratics and Republicans advocated similar policies during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The Democrats had to overcome the stigma of secession and Civil War to...
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Three nights before a college football game between the University of Texas and Syracuse University in 1993, retired computer marketing...
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It takes a lot for the state to say you’re a lousy parent if you’re rich, but it does happen. Just ask Courtney Love. Charlie...
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James Owen Sullivan (a.k.a. The Rev) drummer for Avenged Sevenfold dead of natural causes at his home in Orange County, CA. Avenged...
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If you want to know the great secret of Barack Obama it is that he craves solitude. The man is very much the public persona crying out Yes...
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