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A sideboard said to have been given to the legendary pirate Sam Lord as a house-warming gift for his Barbados castle; a 20-seater Georgian dinner table set with the finest period ware and illuminated with...
A sideboard said to have been given to the legendary pirate Sam Lord as a house-warming gift for his Barbados castle; a 20-seater Georgian dinner table set with the finest period ware and illuminated with...
Anne Ribeiro entered a cage for her amateur MMA debut Saturday night with big expectations, but things didn’t go her way.
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What can The Simpsons teach people about spirituality? Quite a bit, according to Fairview Presbyterian Church.
Relying on oven thermostats is so passé: MEATER+ is a thermometer that you put into your food while it’s in the oven and it transmits real-time data to your phone. It’s probably the coolest thermometer I’ve ever seen.
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Meet Toni Ann Siri, the bar manager at Medieval Times.
A small section of Interstate 820, a loop around Ft. Worth, Texas, was closed down for this stunt, and to all of the people inconvenienced in the middle of the night I’m sorry, but it was worth it. I’ve dreamed of being able to drift a cloverleaf, and have been known to do a couple laps trying to perfect my apexes and…
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But what if a missile hits them? Just one hit, as we saw with HMS Sheffield and USS Stark, can sink or cripple a ship. Even if it doesn't sink, the sensors, computers and electronics would likely be so fried or jostled that the ship would effectively be incapacitated. True, there have been improvements in materials and damage control. But in the end, a modern warship dishes out a lot more firepower than it can take.
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The worldwide telecommunications systems make it easy — and profitable — for such scams, computer scientist says.
The new instrument could be a permanent fixture in the RBI's liquid management toolkit, the level of the rupee determining the frequency of use
Egan Bernal powered through crosswinds in the week and put in a solid time-trial before a thrilling mountain ascent gave him the overall lead at the finish.
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Читать дальше...A new study from the University of British Columbia says honey from urban honey bees can help pinpoint the sources of environmental pollutants such as lead.
The U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, Scott Brown, said Sunday he attached no importance to...
"In two separate but coordinated communications Hafiz Saeed and Pakistan’s ambassador to UN Maleeha Lodhi have both sought an enquiry into how members of the UNSC’s 1267 committee may have shared information of the decision to reject Hafiz Saeed’s request to delist him from UN’s list of global terrorists," said a source. According to Indian authorities, this reflect the close cooperation between so called non-state actors and the Pakistani state agencies.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - Police in Virginia are investigating a burglary and vandalism at a historic church.
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Numbers Don’t Lie. If you want to lose weight, it’s a good idea to measure daily calorie intake. In the same way, if you want to score runs in baseball a good metric to track is how often a team gets men on base (think Moneyball). The MLB average for OBP hovers around .320 each year. So just for fun, what if the Royals based their opening day roster on spring training on-base percentage?
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As a girl from North Carolina, March Madness is one of the most important times of the year for me. As it turns out, living a few miles away from the college campuses of three teams that often make it into the tournament will push you to get really into college basketball. And March is when that obsession reaches its…
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The Interior Ministry has ordered the expulsion of Palestinian press photographer Mustafa al-Kharouf, 31, who was born in Algeria but has lived in Jerusalem with his family since age 12 and is married to a woman from E. Jerusalem
According to a conservative columnist for the Washington Post, Donald Trump’s professed belief that there is not a rising tide of white nationalism could be the end result of not paying attention to his national security advisers or being unable to comprehend what is being told to him – ...
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