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"A raid has killed members of a frontier family. Ethan Edwards, portrayed by an angry, unforgiving John Wayne, was secretly in love with one of the victims. The quick burial in a nearby hillside cemetery is conducted by a family friend, the Reverend Captain Samuel Johnston Clayton (Ward Bond). "Mourners sing, 'Shall we gather at the river. |
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August 12 - 50 years ago. Unsurprisingly, Northern Ireland dominated the headlines on August 12, 1969.
It was the first day of the ‘Battle of the Bogside’ — three days of rioting between the nationalist residents of the Bogside in Derry and the RUC over an Apprentice Boys march. |
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Image copyright Getty Images. Three years ago Pietro Bartolo, sometimes known as the doctor of Lampedusa, was working round the clock to treat migrants landing on the Mediterranean island. Now he is tackling the same problem but in a different way, reports the BBC's Emma Jane Kirby. |
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To the dismay of most children and the delight of many parents , students are headed back to the classroom this month and next, an annual rite of seasonal transition.
I always met the beginning of the new school year with mixed emotion. Summer represented everything I loved, including the pace and freedom of warm, carefree days. |
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The death toll from floods in Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 147, state authorities said yesterday, as rescue teams raced to evacuate people and waters submerged parts of a world heritage site. Heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands of people to take shelter in relief.... |
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There are those who would strongly disagree but the Information and Publicity Secretary of the Botswana Patriotic Front, Justice Motlhabani, feels confident in asserting that today’s Botswana is “reaping the rewards” of “sound economic management” that former president, Ian Khama exercised. |
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Vast crowds in Ilkeston stood silent and in awe as one of the last remaining fully-operational Lancaster bombers in the world thundered through the sky. The Lancaster's fly-past brought hundreds of people to Ilkeston Market Place and became the crowning moment for the annual Classic Vehicle Show which took place on August 11. |
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This Week on ABC (NEW YORK) — Sen. Cory Booker said Sunday that passing more gun control measures, including his proposed idea to institute a gun licensing program, requires “presidential leadership,” and added that if President Donald Trump “took responsibility for this moment,” it may just move Republicans in Washington to action. |
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to action. "I think it's a matter of leadership, presidential leadership," the New Jersey senator and Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "I hear a lot of the pundits say that if Donald Trump actually took responsibility for this moment, and stepped.... |
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Sen. Cory Booker said Sunday that passing more gun control measures, including his proposed idea to institute a gun licensing program, requires "presidential leadership," and added that if President Donald Trump "took responsibility for this moment," it may just to action. |
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“There were people I dated at multiple points in my life I could have married and had kids with, but I was never willing to have a starter marriage just to have babies,” she said. In 2013, a group A strep infection somehow got into her bloodstream, which morphed into necrotizing fasciitis , a flesh-eating bacteria. |
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