Archive for June, 2004
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
Well, That Takes Care Of That!
A man, called El Colacho, jumps over babies during the El Salto Del Colacho festival in Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, Spain, Sunday June 13, 2004. The Colacho, who represents the devil, is supposed to rid the babies of original sin, according to the age-old tradition. (AP Photo/Israel Lopez Murillo)
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
Interesting
June 22, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST A Matter of Faith By DAVID BROOKS When Bill Clinton was 8, he started taking himself to church. When he was 10, he publicly committed himself to Jesus. As a boy, he begged his Sunday school teacher to take him to see Billy Graham. And as anybody watching his book […]
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
ANCHORAGE???
The time is P.M.!!!
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Monday, June 21st, 2004
Archbishop of Canterbury May Star on ‘Simpsons’
Archbishop of Canterbury May Star on ‘Simpsons’ Show may approach fan and Anglican leader Rowan Williams for guest role. Daily Post June 21—Archbishop of Canterbury and Simpsons fan Rowan Williams may be about to follow in Tom Jones’s footsteps with a guest appearance on the top American cartoon show. Producers Twentieth Century Fox are set […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Too True
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Tara????
I’ll probably get the same kind of off color, inappropriate comments as with the “sunglasses” entry, but, ever hopeful, I should like to point out this is not the little ice skater I remember! Actress Tara Lipinski (news) arrives at the HBO All Star family Sports Jam to benefit the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Neat!!!!
The fat nose covered with blue stars and the pea-shaped port holes make SpaceShipOne seem more like an oversized toy than a serious rocket plane — but on Monday this craft will attempt to make the world’s first private space trip.(AFP/Scaled Composites/File)
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Solstice
Revellers greet the dawn of the mid-summer sun at Stonehenge. The lure of Stonehenge seems nearly as old as the stones themselves, and the passage on Monday from spring into summer will uphold that hallowed tradition, with 30,000 expected to welcome in the solstice at dawn.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Waters, Waters, Everywhere
The 70-foot vessel, Waters, home ported in Homer, Alaska, sits grounded on top of a navigational beacon on a rock in Narrow Strait north of Kodiak Island, near the village of Ouzinke, Alaska, Friday, June 18, 2004. The crew boarded a skiff and went to shore to wait for the next high tide to refloat […]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Seattle Bad News
Seattle was an early 9/11 targetBy TODD BISHOP AND PAUL SHUKOVSKY The Seattle Post IntelligencerJun. 17 - The “tallest buildings in California and Washington state” were among the targets that al-Qaida kingpin Khalid Shaikh Mohammed plotted to strike in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, before he was overruled by Osama bin Laden, according to a […]