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Sport piglets face off at Moscow’s porky games A dozen swine from several countries compete in such games as ‘pigball’ MOSCOW - Hundreds of Russians gathered for the first day of the annual “pig Olympics” on Saturday, cheering a field of 12 piglets who competed in three events: pig-racing...

Postcard sent back with 1956 postmark Pristine card returns home 50 years later, but sender doesn’t want it back DELAND, Fla. - Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp — and its 1956...

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living...

Praying for the health of strangers who have undergone heart surgery has no effect, according to the largest scientific study ever commissioned to calculate the healing power of prayer. In fact, patients who know they are being prayed for suffer a noticeably higher rate of complications...

I have searched online to find a book that examines the Canadian Rights & Freedoms. I study Constitutions as a hobby. The internet doesn't really provide "verifiable" information. Does anyone know of any book? Example, for the US Constitution, one of the best books that does a thorough analysis...

Development in defiance of the Washington consensus China has carried off the world's largest reduction in poverty by grasping that market economies cannot be left on autopilot Joseph Stiglitz Thursday April 13, 2006 The Guardian China is about to adopt its 11th five-year plan, setting the...

By: Devvy March 30, 2006 NewsWithViews.com The words above were spoken by Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party. His full comment was: "We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the...

Fugitive woman caught after 30 years 87-year-old wanted in killing of 13-year-old boy MIAMI - An 87-year-old woman who fled 30 years ago before she could be sentenced for killing a 13-year-old boy was arrested at her apartment, authorities said. Maria Josefa Otero spent time in Guatemala and...

Dying for water in Somalia’s drought Amid anarchy, warlords control precious resource RABDORE, Somalia - Villagers call it the "War of the Well," a battle that erupted between two clans over control of a watering hole in this dusty, drought-stricken trading town. By the time it ended two...

Skull in luggage leads to guilty plea Haitian caught with voodoo head at Miami airport admits to reduced charge FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Haitian woman who was found with a human skull in her luggage pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to illegally storing human remains. Myrlene Severe...

Worshippers attacked at 3 Egyptian churches 1 dead, 17 wounded by knife-wielding assailants CAIRO, Egypt - Worshippers at three Christian churches came under attack from knife-wielding assailants during Mass Friday. Police said one worshipper was killed and more than a dozen wounded in the...

THE HAGUE, 12/04/06 - An unjustified fear of and aversion to Islam exists in the Netherlands. Instead of continuing to drag the name of that faith through the mud, there should be far more criticism of friendly countries such as the US, Israel and Russia, the Scientific Council for Government...

Sky News has made an exclusive investigation into the sinister secrets behind China’s booming economy. The Chinese government is accused of using police brutality to remove people from their homes and into lives of squalor and poverty...

:arrow: Long read, you have been warned! Primo: The Cerberean Conception Since it's almost become a cliché to observe that Marxism is dead in practice – that is, if you overlook its authoritarian half-life in China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam – but thriving in theory, we can at least ask...

I think it is a matter of being located somewhere in the Pacific Time Zone. Here I am ealier this morning at 7:30 (EST) and none other than Cosmo, #juan and WC are on Canadian Content. That would make it 4:30am out West. 8O I say again 8O Don't you people ever sleep?!?! :P Do you all...

N.Y. rescuers pull out the stops Drills, mini cameras, raw fish used in search for cat in deli basement wall NEW YORK - Rescuers used drills, miniature cameras and a raw fish Wednesday to try to lure a kitten that has been trapped for 12 days behind a delicatessen’s basement wall. The effort...

Yep, today I am one full year on Canadian Content, with the exception of a couple of "brief" exiles. :lol: Happy Birthday ITN! I'm one year old again. :D

"The whole Empire will rejoice at the news of yesterday's successful operations. Canada will be proud that the taking of the coveted Vimy Ridge has fallen to the lot of her troops. I heartily congratulate you and all who have taken part in this splendid achievement." His Majesty the King to...

CHIEF JUSTICE SURPRISE SUPPORTER OF PULIC VETTING Janice Tibbetts, CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 OTTAWA - Canada's chief justice has thrown her substantial support behind a Conservative plan for publicly vetting Supreme Court contenders, saying a recent hearing on...

I didn't see anyone post anything on this, so I figured it's worth mentioning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eighty-nine years ago yesterday, thousands of Canadian soldiers stormed Vimy Ridge in northeastern France, paying with their limbs and their...