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Encyclopedia > March 10, 2004

March 10, 2004

March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elections for the President and Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) were held on March 20, 2004. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Dr. Lien Chan Lien Chan (連戰, in pinyin: Lián Zhàn) (born August 27, 1936, in Xian) is a Taiwanese politician. ... The modernized NHL shield logo, debuting in 2005. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Todd Bertuzzi - #44 Todd Bertuzzi (b. ... The Stanley Cup is inscribed with the names of all the players on the teams that have won it. ... Steve Moore (born September 22, 1978 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was an ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. ... Members of Parliament Libby Davies, Ujjal Dosanjh, David Emerson, Hedy Fry, Stephen Owen Members of the Legislative Assembly Gordon Campbell, David Chudnovsky, Adrian Dix, Colin Hansen, Jenny Kwan, Lorne Mayencourt, Wally Oppal, Gregor Robertson, Shane Simpson, Carole Taylor Mayor Sam Sullivan City Manager Judy Rogers Governing Body Vancouver City Council... Girls Gone Wild, created by Joe Francis, is a series of videos by American company Mantra Entertainment. ... The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... In law, a person who is not yet a legal adult is known as a minor (known in some places as an infant or juvenile). ... 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A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and... A SiPix digital camera next to a matchbox to show scale. ... Presidential election results map. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States since 2001. ... Soft money refers to money used to advance a particular political campaign in such a manner as to skirt the legal limits on how much money individuals or organizations are allowed to contribute to political campaigns (termed hard money). ... George Soros George Soros (born August 12, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary as Schwartz György) is a financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. ... Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. ... The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent regulatory agency created in 1975 by Congress to administer and enforce campaign finance legislation in the United States. ... The Media Fund is a 527 Group, active in U.S. politics, which was supporting John Kerrys campaign for President. ... A Canadian federal election (more formally, the 38th general election) was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. ... Monia Mazigh is best known as the wife of Maher Arar. ... Maher Arar (born 1970) is a Canadian software engineer born in Syria. ... The New Democratic Party (French: Nouveau Parti démocratique) is a left wing political party in Canada that advocates varying forms of social democracy and democratic socialism. ... This page refers to a Riding as a unit in local government. ... This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... Lee Boyd Malvo Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks. ... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Tim Kaine (D-Governor Elect) Senators John Warner (R) George Allen (R) Official language(s) English Area 110,862 km² (35th)  - Land 102,642 km²  - Water 8,220 km² (7. ... Locations of the 15 sniper attacks numbered chronologically. ...

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NucNews - March 10, 2004 (0 words)
WASHINGTON, March 9 - Increasingly anxious about the deficit as a political issue, Congressional Republicans are moving to reshape President Bush's budget, with some taking aim at his planned increases for the military and even considering steps to make it harder to extend the tax cuts that expire in 2011.
Those actions are ending the so-called marriage penalty, expanding the 10 percent tax bracket and keeping the $1,000 annual tax credit for children, instead of allowing it to revert to $700.
The children were killed Dec. 6 by an A-10 ground-attack aircraft in a field near a mountain village in Ghazni province.
March 10 2004 (0 words)
Manny Pacquiao today raised the hand of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and flashed the thumbs up sign with her in a gesture of support for her presidential bid after Ring Magazine formally placed the boxer in the company of the world’s boxing legends and contemporary greats in a ceremony held this morning in Malacañang’s Rizal Hall.
She said that if the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan para sa Kinabukasan (K-4) ticket wins, every waterless barangay in the country would be assured of potable water, one of the priority programs under her governance.
The funding was made possible because of the windfall P5 billion tax amassed by the government due to the increased collection of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and better management of the PCSO under chairman Ma.
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