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Marine Corps apologizes for sending Purple Heart ornaments to fallen Marines - Stripes Central - Stripes

Seeded on Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:36 AM EST (News - Stripes)

WASHINGTON - The Marine Corps accidentally mailed thank-you packages with Purple Heart ornaments to 1,150 dead Marines, the service acknowledged today. The holiday ornaments, intended for living Purple Heart recipients, were addressed to the deceased Marines and went to their …

odd-news, christmas, purple-heart, us-marine-corp

Pearl Harbor-Gone But Not Forgotten

Wed Dec 7, 2011 8:16 PM EST

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history, pearl-harbor, uss-arizona

Help Protect Veterans' Spouses

Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:18 PM EST (Sign up and use LivingSocial on Facebook | Facebook)

Are We To Believe That Nothing Can Be Done At Home

Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:41 AM EST

When the local media writes about the homeless there is an unfortunate tendency to focus only on the local problem completely missing that the problem is a national problem. According to a December, 2000 report, on any given night in America there are anywhere from 700,000 to 2 …

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church, state, politics, homeless, government, local, tent-cities

Catholic Church Sees The Second Overhaul In A Century

Sun Nov 27, 2011 1:40 AM EST

An article in the Denver Post today reports that this Sunday Catholics across the world will begin to celebrate the “The Roman Missal, Third Edition.” The more literal translation of original Latin texts will be used for the first time Sunday.

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religion, catholic, vatican-ii, the-roman-missal-third-edition

Color Photo To B&W

Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:22 PM EST

This is my first attempt at your idea of converting from color to B&W.

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photography, photo, color, not-news, conversion, b-w, digital-editing

A Reason For Thanksgiving

Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:33 AM EST

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thanksgiving, not-news

Fall In Colorado

Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:00 AM EST

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Nürburgring Record Brings Electric Race Cars Closer to Competition

Seeded on Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:16 AM EDT (Ecomagination)

The prototype EV P001 car, built by Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG), set a time of 7 minutes, 47.8 seconds for the legendary 12.9-mile (20.8-kilometer) circuit, cutting more than a minute off the previous all-electric record posted last spring by the Peugeot EX1 (9:01.3 minutes). …

technology, peugeot, ex1, tmg, n-rburgring, ev-p001, toyota-motorsport

Congress puts on smiley face in bid to curry public favor

Seeded on Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:52 AM EDT (McClatchy)

Sniping and snide remarks are out on Capitol Hill.

economy, politics, california, capitol-hill, lawmakers, claremont-mckenna-college, john-pitney

NJ senior exposes massive Medicare fraud

Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:21 PM EDT (New York Post)

They scammed the wrong guy! A frail but feisty wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet with muscular dystrophy scored a $15 million whistelblower’s reward after uncovering a massive Medicaid fraud scheme -- with the help of his trusty calculator. “From my wheelchair, on a venti …

health, medicaid, veterans-affairs, medicaid-fraud, vietnam-vet, maxim-healthcare

Illegal pot grow removed from Pike National Forest

Seeded on Fri Sep 9, 2011 1:00 PM EDT (KUSA-TV)

Local and federal authorities say they've dismantled an illegal marijuana growing operation in the Pike National Forest southwest of Denver. The U.S.

marijuana, denver, environment, u-s-forest-service, pike-national-forest

Capitol Alert: 'Open carry' ban wins approval in California Senate

Seeded on Thu Sep 8, 2011 10:51 PM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)

The state Senate has approved legislation today that would make it a crime to openly carry an unloaded handgun in public. Assembly Bill 144, by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge, targets the "open carry" movement, marked by gatherings of people displa …

politics, handgun, gun-control-laws, open-carry, california-state-senate, anthony-portantino, assembly-bill-144, la-ca-ada-flintridge, sen-kevin-de-le-n

White House warns against harboring Gadhafi

Seeded on Wed Sep 7, 2011 8:14 PM EDT (The Sacramento Bee)

The White House is urging Libya's neighbors to detain Moammar Gadhafi and members of his family if they seek refuge in another country. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the U.S. has specifically delivered that message to Niger, which shares a porous desert border with Libya.

libya, white-house, u-s, u-n, united-nations, moammar-gadhafi, world-news, niger, algeria, jay-carney

15 year-old faces charge of copyright infringment

Seeded on Sun Sep 4, 2011 4:45 PM EDT (Ice News)

A 15 year-old boy has become the youngest Swede ever to be charged with violating copyright laws after uploading 24 films onto internet filesharing sites. The boy, who is only just old enough to face criminal prosecution in the country, is accused of “intentionally or with …

technology, sweden, copyright, swede, rush-hour, true-grit, the-social-network, tankaner-com, tankafesta-com, fredrik-ingblad

Are we as a buying public to trusting?

Sat Sep 3, 2011 7:06 PM EDT

We were all raised to believe that the rewards of life would be realized through our efforts and hard work. As children we were encouraged to apply ourselves to the task of learning through education, for some this was the first contact with life's pressures.

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fda, health, shoulderflex-massager

Border towns struggle with post-9/11 security measures

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 5:55 PM EDT (Toronto Star)

DERBY LINE, VT.—Feeling like pizza for a late-evening dinner, Buzz Roy called up Steve’s, just a few steps across the border in Stanstead, Que., and ordered a large, smoked meat special for pick up. A mundane act, on the surface.

canada, u-s, us-news, vt, que, derby-line, stanstead, buzz-roy, canada-u-s-borderline, brown-s-drug-store

Halliburton sues BP for defamation over Gulf spill

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 4:08 PM EDT (The Orlando Sentinel)

Halliburton Co is suing BP Plc for "negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation" related to BP's claims about who was to blame for last year's Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Halliburton said BP provided inaccurate information prior to Halliburton …

environment, halliburton-co, bp-plc, gulf-of-mexico, deep-water-horizon, macondo-well, texas-state-court

Orlando's toxic mess to get cleaned up.

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 12:31 PM EDT (The Orlando Sentinel)

Thousands of gallons of molasses are being pumped into the ground just north of downtown Orlando in the long-awaited start of a complex strategy to clean up a toxic mess that almost landed the city on a list of the nation's most hazardous places. The molasses serves as a kind of …

epa, superfund, environment, orlando, aerospace, tce, molasses, u-s-environmental-protection-agency, trichloroethene, nations-most-hazardous-places

World population 10B by 22nd Century

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 1:35 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

By the end of this year the world's seven billionth citizen will be born.

united-nations, world-news, global-population, population-estimates, un-population-division

Largest Scottish-Irish festival in the country pipes in

Seeded on Thu Sep 1, 2011 1:04 PM EDT (KUSA-TV)

For the last 35 years the clans have been gathering together in Estes Park for the Long's Peak Scottish-Irish Highland Festival. Shawn Stansburry is with the festival and stopped by 9NEWS to explain why he thinks the festival has been so successful for more than three decades. " …

entertainment, co, celtic, estes-park, 9news, scottish-irish-highland-festival, shawn-stansburry

What Does The Claddagh Mean?

Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:10 PM EDT

The Irish Claddagh Rings are probably the most culturally rich pieces of jewelry ever recorded in history. The meaning, significance and history of the Claddagh ring has a rich ancient past that dates back to over 300 years.

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history, claddagh

IKEA founder Nazi ties resurface

Seeded on Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:19 PM EDT (IceNews)

The founder of IKEA is facing mounting questions about his past, after a new book accused him of more involvement than previously thought in the Swedish Nazi party. Ingvar Kamprad previously claimed that his known flirtation with fascism was the “greatest mistake” of …

business, nazi, ikea, sss, ingvar-kamprad, elisabeth-asbrink, swedish-socialist-union

Wild Animal Sanctuary building elevated walkway to view lions, bears - The Denver Post

Seeded on Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:12 AM EDT (The Denver Post)

Operators of the Wild Animal Sanctuary are constructing a "Mile Into the Wild" elevated walkway to take visitors to the sanctuary's new lion house — home to 25 of the big cats rescued from traveling circuses in Bolivia. The boardwalk, ranging from 22 feet to 40 feet above …

bolivia, wolf, tiger, lion, not-news, black-bear, the-wild-animal-sanctuary, katie-vandegrift

Severed foot washes up on Canada's Pacific coast

Seeded on Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:30 AM EDT (Telegraph)

The find, by a woman walking her dogs on the banks of the Fraser River in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond, rekindled speculation of a murder mystery, or airplane or boat accident behind the phenomenon. Police said that the latest foot, in a small woman's New Balance running sho …

odd-news, dna, vancouver, richmond, royal-canadian-mounted-police, rcmp, new-balance, fraser-river, sergeant-kathrine-hansen

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Marine Corps apologizes for sending Purple Heart ornaments to fallen Marines - Stripes Central - Stripes
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