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An account of the Esperanza Fire from an animal rescuer

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An account of the Esperanza Fire from an animal rescuer

This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details. This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details. Saturday, December 2, 2006 As families fled their homes in the early morning hours on Thursday October 26, there was no warning. The Esperanza Fire […]

Raw Opals spend week preparing for London Games

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Raw Opals spend week preparing for London Games

Monday, May 21, 2012 Bruce, Canberra — This past week, an overstocked Australian Opals, the women’s national basketball team, prepared for the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a weeklong training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) to be used to help narrow the nineteen member Opals squad down to the twelve that […]

Music duo The Bellamy Brothers accuse Britney Spears of plagiarism

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Music duo The Bellamy Brothers accuse Britney Spears of plagiarism

Sunday, February 20, 2011 US pop and country duo The Bellamy Brothers are accusing pop music singer Britney Spears — also from the United States — of plagiarism in her latest single “Hold It Against Me”. The group believes that Spears is “ripping off” one of their songs, a 1979 track entitled “If I Said […]

Working At The Olive Garden

Here’s An Opinion On: Dural Irrigation By Jill Avery Olive Garden is a chain of American restaurants specializing in Italian-American cuisine. Headquartered in Orlando Florida a company owned by Darden Restaurants, Inc., and operates over 730 locations around the world. The first Olive Garden opened 13 General Mills in December 1982, in Orlando. In 1989, […]

Wikinews interviews Kent Mesplay, Green Party presidential candidate

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Wikinews interviews Kent Mesplay, Green Party presidential candidate

Sunday, June 29, 2008 While nearly all coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third-party candidates. These prospects represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. Wikinews has reached out to […]

Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, say scientists

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Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, say scientists

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced on Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed. We could literally count […]

Major ‘Spiritual Life of College Students’ study released by UCLA

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Major ‘Spiritual Life of College Students’ study released by UCLA

Thursday, April 14, 2005 Results of the second phase in an ongoing major study of the spiritual lives of college students was released Wednesday, April 13 by a research center at UCLA. The study is a groundbreaking attempt to gain insight into the spiritual lives and concerns of students and improve how faculties and administrators […]

The Cost Of Not Doing Home Maintenance: Cleaning Your Refrigerator

Here’s An Opinion On: Business Energy Advice Program Site By Vincent Platania I still remember the old monster of a Norge refrigerator that hummed away in my grandmother’s kitchen. It was easily 20 years old when I was born – and when we moved ten years later, it was still going strong. Long after friends’ […]

Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out

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Woman returns home with Christmas turkey, a month after setting out
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to […]

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