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Angela Smith (Seattle, WA) on Encyclopedia > Provo Canyon School 1591 days 1 hour 47 minutes 16 seconds ago
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Provo Canyon School has been torturing children and defrauding families for over 30 years. I was tortured at Provo Canyon School in 1989. Since that time I have founded HEAL, a national human rights organization, working on exposing institutionalized child abuse for profit.
There is a long history of abuse and lawsuits against Provo Canyon School. Since this is undisputed by Provo Canyon School, I will mention the fact that they have been reported to Provo authorities over 143 times since 2001 for violations from child abuse to sodomy and rape of a child.
Please do not subject your child to Provo Canyon School. For more information, visit http://www.provotruthexposed.com and http://www.heal-online.org/provocanyon.htm. |
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Isobel Warren (Toronto, Canada) on Encyclopedia > Annabelle Chvostek 1592 days 14 hours 10 minutes 45 seconds ago
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Annabelle Chvostek left the Wailin' Jennys in January 2007 to escape the stagnation of constant touring and repetition. Her new CD, Resilience (Borealis Records), released in spring, 2008, is a stunning work of intense musicality, ranging through myriad genres. Many major names such as Bruce Cockburn and Mary Gauthier collaborated on the CD which is already topping the folk/roots charts in both the U.S. and Canada. |
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David (Rochester, NY) on Encyclopedia > Midtown Plaza %28Rochester%29 1593 days 12 hours 43 minutes 35 seconds ago
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Midtown Plaza first opened on April 10, 1962. Unfortunately, it closed to the public on July 25, 2008. The Clock of Nations was removed from Midtown´s atrium on April 25, 2008. It was fully restored and is now proudly displayed at the Greater Rochester International Airport until 2012. In 2012, this clock will be moved to its final home at the Golisano Children´s Hospital at Strong Memorial Hospital. City Hall put Midtown Plaza´s Monorail in a storage facility until who knows when. Sadly, Midtown Plaza will be demolished in June of 2009. PAETEC Telecommunications is supposed to build their nine story headquarters where the old B. Forman Co. and Seneca Building now stands. Rochester´s Mayor Robert J. Duffy wants to put a hotel where the old McCurdy´s Building now stands. An outdoor courtyard may go where Midtown Plaza´s atrium now stands. Only Midtown Tower and the Midtown Parking Garage might remain. |
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Todd Anderson (Ozark, MO) on Encyclopedia > Ferrell Anderson 1594 days 10 hours 47 minutes 51 seconds ago
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Ferrell “Andy” Anderson was signed in 1939 by Bill Essick of the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent. The Yankees farm team, the Joplin Miners of the Western Association, was where Andy started as a catcher, fresh from the University of Kansas where he was a star lineman (right guard) for three years (1936-37-38-39), an All-Big Six Conference selection his last two years and gaining All-America honorable mention his senior year.
Anderson caught six career no-hit games. One came while serving with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Ed Head, a right hander, hurling a 5-0 shutout on April 23, 1946— the only no-hitter in the National League that year. While with Brooklyn, Anderson served in 79 games, batting .256.
Fort Worth of the Texas League had him in 1947, where he was named the league’s MVP. He caught for the St. Paul Saints of the American Association from 1948 through 1950, after which he went to Toronto of the International League in 1951-52. Anderson never averaged below .300 while in the minors.
Anderson’s other major league play was as backup catcher with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953, where he batted .286.
His managerial career started in 1954 when he was in charge of the Omaha Cardinals of the Western League. His last season was spent as manager of the Columbus, Ga., Cardinals of the Sally League.
Upon retirement, Ferrell spent the rest of his life residing in Joplin, Missouri, where he was instrumental in bringing Little League Baseball to the town.
Former Cardinal manager Eddie Stanky once wrote of Ferrell, “Andy was one of my favorite teammates (Brooklyn Dodgers in 1946) and one of my players when I managed the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953. It is always so pleasureful to write about someone like your dad. He was a strong, burly man, but had a heart of “gold.” A good man to have on a team, would do anything to help his team of teammates like pitching extra batting practice when a team mate was in a slump and he was not catching that day. Always the first one at the ballpark. Never moody! A joy for me to be associated with him those years.” |
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Michael P. Wright (Norman, Oklahoma) on Encyclopedia > David L. Boren 1599 days 18 hours 2 minutes 5 seconds ago
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In 1995, author W. Scott Thompson published a book entitled The Price of Achievement: Coming Out in Reagan Days. Thompson had been a Reagan presidential appointee, but later came out as gay. He had also been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford when Boren was there. Without any ambiguity, in this book Thompson confirmed that Boren was a closet homosexual. There had been rumors about this in Oklahoma for decades. In 1993, gay author Michelangelo Signorile published Queer in America. Half a chapter of it was devoted to an unnamed U.S. Senator whom he called "the Legislator." Three former male staff members had provided Signorile details of having been sexually harassed by this Senator, but asked for pseudonyms because they feared retaliation. Signorile provided many details from this Senator's actual biography, and gay activists figured out that it was Boren. They began to out him in the gay press in 1993. That was probably the reason Boren resigned from his seemingly invulnerable Senate seat in 1994. He was desperate to keep this out of the mainstream press. |
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Thomas (Norway) on Norway Profile 1601 days 21 hours 22 minutes 23 seconds ago
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Consult the HDI (Human Development index), a quality of life measure, by the United Nations.
#1. Iceland 0.968 (▲ 1)
#2. Norway 0.968 (▼ 1)
#3. Australia 0.962 (▬)
#4. Canada 0.961 (▲ 2)
#5. Ireland 0.959 (▼ 1)
#6. Sweden 0.956 (▼ 1)
#7. Switzerland 0.955 (▲ 2)
#8. Japan 0.953 (▼ 1)
#9. Netherlands 0.953 (▲ 1)
#10.France 0.952 (▲ 6)
@Danny Rasmussen. |
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Dr. John Zammit (Malta) on Malta Profile > Government 1606 days 2 hours 42 minutes 57 seconds ago
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The report by the CIA about my political party - Alleanza Liberal Demokratika Malta (Liberal Democratic Alliance) has got a mistake, we are not against illegal immigration, we are against the interference of the Catholic Church in politics and we are in favor of divorce, abortion, gay rights and marriages and other progressive laws. That is why we are Liberals as we are the most progressive political party in Malta - Dr. John Zammit, Leader Alleanza Liberali www.malta-liberals.org and www.john-zammit.eu and www.freewebs.com/liberalalliance |
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IVAN MARINOV (SANTIAGO, CHILE) on Encyclopedia > Martin 202 1607 days 22 hours 30 minutes 3 seconds ago
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The Martin 2-0-2 was introduced by Linea Aerea Nacional (LAN), the Chilean national airline, in late 1947. With
a fleet of four, the company started a service across the
Andes to Buenos Aires and Montevideo. After modifications
done to their wings structure, the Martin 2-0-2 proved to
be one of the most reliable and popular aircraft in the
history of the airline, and remained in service until the
early 1960s, period during which they also served a route
to La Paz, Bolivia. With the advent of the Douglas DC-6Bs,
the Martinliners were confined only to domestic routes. |
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Scott (Wisconsin) on Encyclopedia > Stieff Silver 1611 days 8 hours 55 minutes 13 seconds ago
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Charles Clinton Stieff started the Baltimore Silver Company in 1892 and changed the name to The Stieff Company in 1904, not 1914.
The Stieff Piano company was a separate company started by his father .. Charles M. Stieff. The last pianos were made in 1949 and the last of them sold in 1952 when the retail stores were shut down. The factory was located at 7 South Liberty street in Baltimore.
Prior to the Redwood Street shop.. the business was located in Cider Alley in Downtown Baltimore. In 1925 the company built a new one story factory at 800 Wyman Park drive. The building was designed b y noted architect Theodore Wells Pietsch. Business grew so much that by 1929 a second story was added to bring the building to 35,000 sqr. ft. In 1971 the building was enlarged again to 80,000 sqr. ft. to add the new plating rooms and warehouse. |
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Ram (Mumbai) on Encyclopedia > Mumbai, Maharashtra 1613 days 7 hours 53 minutes 5 seconds ago
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Check out events in Mumbai on www.kyakare.com |
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Hellen (Florida) on Encyclopedia > Sofia of Russia 1623 days 21 hours 38 minutes 9 seconds ago
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After the death of her brother - tsar Feodor III of Russia (April 27, 1682) - Sophia was actively engaged in a fight against court politicians, because she had been against electing a 10-year old Peter the Great as a ruler of Russia. The Miloslavsky party took advantage of the Moscow Uprising of 1682 and seized power. Ivan V was proclaimed the "first" tsar (young Peter the Great being the second), and Sophia (on May 29) - their regent. She practically became the head of the government with support from Vasily Golitsyn, F.Shalkovitiy and others. In the fall of 1682, the government of Sophia Alekseyevna had to move to Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, because the uprising had gotten out of hand. Its leaders had been conspiring to eliminate all of the royalty, boyars, and nobility and make Knyaz Ivan Khovansky ruler of Russia. Soon enough Sophia managed to suppress the Moscow Uprising with the help of the nobles' forces.
During her reign, Sophia made a few concessions to posads and loosened detention policies towards runaway peasants, which caused dissatifaction among the nobles. The most notorious highlights of her foreign policy were the Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 with Poland, the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 with China, and a war with Turkey and Crimean Khanate (see Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689).
By the end of the 1680s, Sophia was in a permanent state of conflict with Peter I, because she had always strived for absolute rule. In August of 1689, Peter I found out that Sophia had been conspiring against him. He quickly moved from the village of Preobrazhenskoye to Troitse-Sergiyev monastery (today's Sergiyev Posad). His loyal forces and supporters followed him there. They soon surrounded Moscow and arrested Sophia. She was incarcerated in Novodevichiy monastery. Her supporters were either executed or banished.
During the Streltsy Uprising of 1698, Sophia's supporters intended to reinstate her in power. However, the uprising was severely suppressed by Peter I, who made Sophia a nun of Novodevichiy monastery, where she died a few years later. |
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Alex Boutilier (Fall River) on Encyclopedia > Government House (Nova Scotia) 1626 days 20 minutes 22 seconds ago
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Government House served only Lieutenant-Governors of Nova Scotia. The office of 'Governor' ended with Governor John Parr in 1787. Parr was demoted to Lieutenant-Governor at that time, and from then on there were only Liiutenant-Governors in the Province of Nova Scotia. Wentworth was a Lieutenant-Governor.
Alex Boutilier |
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David Curtis (Eden, NSW, Auatralia) on Encyclopedia > Harry Curtis (footballer) 1627 days 15 hours 12 minutes 20 seconds ago
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Ancestry of Harry Curtis. 1. Richard Curtis 1790-1866 (s.o. William Curtis of Drumcannon, Co Waterford and Frances Hammond d.o. Dr Hammond of Hammondville, near Tramore m.1st in 1820 Margaret Langley 1783-1820 sister of Dr Langley of Tramore. (William Langley served as surgeon in the 62nd Foot Rgt in the Crimea in 1854.) 2. Samuel Curtis b.1820 (son of Richard Curtis & Margaret Langley) m. Jane Atkinson of Roskrea, Co. Tipperary and they emigrated to Australia. (Meanwhile, Samuel's father had remarried in 1822, to Frances Shearman of Kilkenny.) 3. A son of Samuel and Jane Curtis was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He being presumably, the father of Harry Curtis (b.1892).
I am descended from the second marriage of Richard Curtis. A grandson of this marriage, John Wilson Curtis, settled in Australia with his wife from Cape Town and they raised a large Australian family in Oakleigh, Melbourne - some of whom are Collingwood supporters. |
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Lew Paterson (Waddington) on Encyclopedia > No. 56 Squadron RAF 1627 days 19 hours 52 minutes 44 seconds ago
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A formal parade took place at RAF Leuchars in Fife on Tuesday 22 April 2008 to mark the handover of Number 56 (Reserve) Squadron's number plate to the Intelligence Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Operational Evaluation Unit (OEU) at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.
The disbandment of 56 (Reserve) Squadron as a Tornado F3 Operational Conversion Unit comes after almost 92 years of service as a Fighter Squadron, the last five years of which were spent at Leuchars.
The occasion was additionally marked on Friday 18 April when nine Tornado F3s from the Squadron carried out a diamond formation flypast across parts of eastern Scotland.
The Squadron name will however go on, as the new 56 (Reserve) Squadron will be based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. As the ISTAR OEU, 56 (Reserve) Squadron will now be responsible for Operational Test and Evaluation of Sentry AEW1 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS); Sentinel R1 and associated Airborne Stand Off Radar (ASTOR) systems; Nimrod R1, Nimrod MR2 and Nimrod MRA4 aircraft. In addition, 56 (Reserve) Squadron is also responsible for a wide range of ground system testing including Air Defence radars and the Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) weapon system. |
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Korea4one (Boston, Mass. USA) on Korea, South Profile > People 1635 days 6 hours 28 minutes 4 seconds ago
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Korean total population need updated.
1) South Korea population: 49,044,790.- (50,000,000)2008.
2) North Korea population: 23,301,725- (25,000,000) 2008.
3) Overseas Korean population: 7,044,716.
4) Half Korean and North Korean refugee: (9,000,000).
Korean Peninsula population: 72,346,515.
Korean overseas population:7,044,716.
Korean total population: 79,391,231.
Plus half Korean, NK( refugee) 10,000,000.
Korean total population: 89,391,231 million.
1) Half Korean-Chinese: 5 million.
2) Half Korean-Japanese: 3 million.
3) Half Korean-Anglo(USA): 1 million.
4) North Korean refugee ( China, Russia) 1 million
total 10,000,000. |
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