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[Khalid El-Amin]

More than 50 million Turks eligible to vote for new 550-seat house as ruling party seeks third straight term in office.

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[Carl Culture]

About Tom:

Raised in Norwell, Ma. Attended Salve Regina University, graduated with Academic honors in art. Upon graduation was selected to execute two large commissions for a local church. With the money he traveled to Europe. Spent his twenties going from place to place setting up studios, selling artwork. In 1999 He moved to Newport, RI. Where he found a large studio space in nearby Fall River, Ma. to execute large found object works. His work is in numerous public and private collections through out the world.








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[NASA]

The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may




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[Big Gay Al]

Bailey
Kim says: I just got Bailey and her brother from a kitten rescue. They are so much fun to have around and were not very shy from the moment I brought them home. Bailey is a little calmer so I can get better pics of her. She was the runt of her litter and the only girl. I noticed her right away because of her big eyes and the slight "scrunch" of her little face. She also has such an interesting look (besides the sheer undeniable cuteness!) because her face is like a gray tabby and her body is kind of calico with orange patches, and she has a spotted leopard belly! She is the sweeeetest. I have only had her about a week, but she already comes when i call her and likes to snuggle in my lap -- heaven! :)
Courtesy of: Kim S.


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[Kenan Thompson]

The award-winning actor advises the class of 2011 to accept that failure will be part of their life's journey As another graduation season comes to a close, thousands of the nation's bright young graduates have already forgotten what was said and, in...(read more)

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[Adolf Hitler]

Forum: Newslinks & Articles Posted By: JamesMiller Post Time: 06-12-2011 at 02:04 AM

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[Georgie Thompson]

Inter Milan playmaker Wesley Sneijder has backtracked on his earlier commitment to the Serie A side.

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[NASA]

The layers in these cliffs show buried ice deposits in the southern polar region of Mars close to Ulyxis Rupes at about 72°S/162°E. The image was obtained by Mars Express on 15 January 2011 during orbit 8995 using the High Resolution Stereo Camera. These perspective views have been calculated from the Digital Terrain Model derived from the stereo channels.

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[NASA]

This Hubble image of Supernova 1987A shows the brightening ring of supernova debris. The closest supernova seen in almost 400 years, Supernova 1987A is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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[Carl Culture]

Yesterday's mystery person was Charley Taylor, who was a white slave from New Orleans. Today, we show another interesting case. Pictured are Isaac White and Rosina Downs. They both were slave children in New Orleans, and were emancipated in 1864 when General Butler took New Orleans. I was able to find an article on the topic of White Slaves in New Orleans. The article mentioned both Charley Taylor from yesterday, and Rosina Downs, pictured above.




ROSINA DOWNS is not quite seven years old. She is a fair child, with blonde complexion and silky hair. Her father is in the rebel army. She has one sister as white as herself, and three brothers who are darker. Her mother, a bright mulatto, lives in New Orleans in a poor hut, and has hard work to support her family.

CHARLES TAYLOR is eight years old. His complexion is very fair, his hair light and silky. Three out of five boys in any school in New York are darker than he. Yet this white boy, with his mother, as he declares, has been twice sold as a slave. First by his father and "owner," Alexander Wethers, of Lewis County, Virginia, to a slave-trader named Harrison, who sold them to Mr. Thornhill of New Orleans. This man fled at the approach of our army, and his slaves were liberated by General Butler. The boy is decidedly intelligent, and though he has been at school less than a year he reads and writes very well. His mother is a mulatto; she had one daughter sold into Texas before she herself left Virginia, and one son who, she supposes, is with his father in Virginia.


These three children, to all appearance of unmixed white race, came to Philadelphia last December, and were taken by their protector, Mr. Bacon, to the St. Lawrence Hotel on Chestnut Street. Within a few hours, Mr. Bacon informed me, he was notified by the landlord that they must leave. The children, he said, had been slaves, and must therefore be colored persons, and he kept a hotel for white people. From this hospitable establishment the children were taken to the "Continental," where they were received without hesitation.






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