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Garden Club to hold plant, bake sale
Boston :: MA :: USA | 20 days ago
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Club members will sell various plants from their own gardens, as well as other garden-related items. All funds raised will support club activities, such as an annual scholarship, guest speakers, floral demonstrations, and community flower gardens.
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Heavy rains inundate many low-lying areas
Doha :: Qatar | 20 days ago
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Many low-lying areas in the city, its suburbs and other parts of the country were under knee-deep water after heavy rains paralysed life late yesterday afternoon, exposing the hollow claims of the municipal authorities that they were ever-ready to
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Fishball vendor kills alleged bully
Manila :: Philippines | 21 days ago
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PhilippinesA fishball vendor, apparently fed up with one of his customer's bullying, stabbed his tormentor to death in a drunken rage Friday night in Quezon City after the victim made some snide remarks about him, police said. Jason Anuengco, 24,
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Poverty soars in CAR
Bangui :: Central African Republic | 21 days ago
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Oils, soap and smoked fish may have returned to Bangui's colourful market stalls, but underneath the luring smells and lively buzz of haggling vendors, the tills ring empty, a sign of the Central African Republic's (CAR) crippling finances and the
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SacBee Garden
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 21 days ago
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Recent warm weather really brought bushels of colorful blooms...Check out the flowers of the World Peace Rose Garden at Capitol Park in Sacramento as well as the McKinley Park Memorial Rose Garden...Or do you want to publicize a community garden
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Art goes green in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi :: United Arab Emirates | 21 days ago
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I shot this with the Rasheedi tribe in Kuwait, when I used to live with them. They gave me a camel called Fatima, which is with them, but I visit her from time to time. They are still nomads, wintering in Kuwait and travelling to the Saudi desert for
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Lawmakers pass bill to deal with Everglades suit
Miami :: FL :: USA | 21 days ago
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Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau Florida legislators used a bill to change wetlands regulations to block a lawsuit against the state for approving two no-bid, 20-year lease agreements with sugar and vegetable farmers. The leases were approved by the
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Car Bursts into Flames After Early Morning Fatal Crash
El Dorado :: AR :: USA | 21 days ago
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The crash happened around 2 a.m. near the Bass Lake exit of Highway 50, according to El Dorado Hills firefighters. The red Pontiac sedan allegedly was speeding when it went up the embankment and came to a stop...CHP say that the driver was so badly
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Violent demonstrations in Guinea leave 3 dead
Conakry :: Guinea | 21 days ago
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West African nation of Guinea say three people are dead following violent demonstrations against an upcoming legislative election. A cousin said Friday that student Cherif Souleymane Diallo died after being shot by a police officer Friday. A second
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps, By Jerry Brotton
London :: United Kingdom | 21 days ago
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Brotton's dozen examples of the flattened globe track the course of map-making visions from the sacred to exploratory, the imperial to the digital. Compare Mercator (1569), and its European tilt, with Peters (1973), and its long South, and it's clear
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