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Black Friday Q&A
Black Friday Shopping: Q & A The day after Thanksgiving, or Black Friday, kicks off the holiday shopping season. Each year, retailers open their doors...
Ivy League: U-Haul truck crash killed a woman and injured other two during Yale-Harvard game
The driver of a U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs through a tailgating area before the Yale-Harvard game yesterday suddenly accelerated, fatally striking a 30-year-old...
Video: police pepper sprayed into face the passive protesters at UC Davis
A shocking footage of police forcefully pepper spraying a group of Occupy demonstrators staging a sit down protest the University of California, Davis, has...
Wiki Conference India 2011: more than 700 people gathered at Mumbai University campus
More than seven hundreds people are gathering in Mumbai University campus for India's first Wikipedia conference. Wikipedia Conference 2011 is a three-day event, from November...
Veterans Day 2011: holiday and veterans facts
Veterans Day started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Veterans Day was first called Armistice Day, declared to mark...
London: thousands of students protesting against tuition fees and cuts
Thousands of students took London streets today to demonstrate against tuition fees and spending cuts. Hundreds of police officers lined the route as over 2,500...
History of Halloween
Halloween is not an American holiday. In fact, Halloween is considered to be one of the oldest holidays in the world, and one celebrated...
New Jersey: list of school closings by county on Halloween due to snowstorm.
Due to Saturday snowstorm, which dumped over a foot of snow onto parts of New Jersey and left more than 500,000 residents without power...
Daylight Saving Time 2011: When is it and Why we need it?
Daylight Saving Time (DST), also summer time in several countries, is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have...
CL&P saftey tips in case of storm
As an unusual October snowstorm hit the North East of US, Connecticut Light & Power (CL&P) offers the following safety tips in case of...
Last minute Halloween costumes at your home.
If you don’t have any idea, or you don’t have enough time or simply you don’t want to spend money to get a Halloween...
Somerville: Kennedy School principal bans Halloween, Thanksgiving and Columbus Day.
In Somerville, Massachusetts, the Kennedy Elementary School principal has caused outrage by banning Halloween, Thanksgiving and Columbus Day, saying they are insensitive. Anne Foley, the...
World population will reach 7 billion in the next days.
United Nations announced that the world's population will reach 7 billion in the next few days. The 7 billion stage comes just 12 years since the...
Melanoma prevention: tanning beds forbidden to minors
Taking a new step on preventing melanoma, Edmund G. Brown, Jr., California Governor, signed on October 9 SB 746 into a law that restricts...
Columbus Day celebrations across US.
Columbus Day is celebrated annually on the second Monday of October and commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World on October...
Be careful where you buy Halloween contact lenses!
American Academy of Ophthalmology is warning about the risks associated with decorative Halloween contact lenses. The American Academy of Ophthalmology is working with its partners...
Chanel Taper has the longest tongue. Guinness World Records 2012.
The Dog With The Longest Ears On The Planet. One Ton Crocodile Captured In Philippines. Largest Crocodile In The World. A woman with a four-inch tongue...
What Does Labor Day Mean?
Labor Day Weekend Las Vegas 2011. Labor Day Sales 2011. MDA Labor Day Telethon 2011 Programme. For majority of people Labor Day means a three-day weekend with...
Hurricane names: how and why scientists named hurricanes?
Hurricane Irene: 10 deaths and millions of power outages. A hurricane name can’t tell you about the storm’s power, although September’s hurricanes have a record...
Teacher sues State of Missouri over the Facebook law.
A teacher from Missouri has sued the state over so called Facebook law, a new law that prevents contacts between teachers and their students...
The Daily Show: Borders liquidating its remaining stores
The Daily Show last night highlighted a part on the decline of Borders. Author and comedian John Hodgman asked Jon Stewart, "Did you know books...
Shark Week 2011
Shark Week began on Sunday, July, 31 with a premiere, "Great White Invasion", about a horde of great white sharks that were swimming along...
Books industry is adapting to the e-books wave
The books industry has been upended by the expansion of the e-books, and publishers are shifting in opposition to tradition by publishing paperbacks...
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