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Housing News -The Housing Board said it is ramping up efforts to provide more integrated foliage and greenery as part of efforts to create a liveable and sustainable environment for residents.. Read

The 1956 Olympic flame hoax was a hoax during the 1956 Summer Olympics, in which Barry Larkin, a veterinary student from Melbourne, ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, including a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was…

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The odometer on the delivery driver’s million-mile Hyundai Elantra was verified via service paperwork, Carfax, and her company’s records.

Spanish spy, double agent for the British in World War II

The Invasion of Quebec (June 1775 – October 1776, French: Invasion du Québec) was the first major military initiative by the newly formed Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. The objective of the campaign was to seize the Province of Quebec…

Prison education is any educational activity that occurs inside prison. Courses can include basic literacy programs, secondary school equivalency programs, vocational education and tertiary education. Other activities such as rehabilitation programs, physical…

cultural label of Seattle, WA as a place it's hard to make friends

Josephine Myrtle Corbin (May 12, 1868 – May 6, 1928) was an American sideshow performer born as a dipygus. This referred to the fact that she had two separate pelvises side by side from the waist down, as a result of her body axis splitting as it developed.…

Once common in cars and still beloved by many auto enthusiasts the manual transmission is dying out. Automatic transmissions are improving and the small but growing share of electric cars need no multi-gear transmission at all.

This is a family tree of the main line of descent of Confucius (Chinese: 孔子世家大宗).

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The sharing economy, aging population and monetary policy are among the possible reasons that low inflation persists in the U.S. and other countries.

It's National Tortilla Chip Day!

A producer on Spongebob Squarepants revealed a small detail regarding the contents of a Krabby Patty.

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