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At 16, I was a DJ on a local radio station, playing the rock ‘n’ roll and doo-wop recordings of the day. Many of the artists were black. Richard Penniman (aka ȁ#x201c;Little Richardȁ#x201d;) tells a funny story about white kids back then. In ȁ#x201c;Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n’ Roll,ȁ#x201d; the 1987.... |
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MUCH IS BEING made of how far from agog we the Irish are about the impending arrival of Pope Francis, compared with how utterly bananas the whole country went when Pope John Paul II touched down and kissed the oily runway at Dublin Airport in 1979. We’ve heard all the clichés: Ireland was a different country then etc. |
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Federal Liberal MPs Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison and Julie Bishop are all working the phones to drum up support ahead of an expected leadership showdown in Canberra on Friday.
The prime minister will call a party meeting at midday AEST to resolve the issue, on condition he sights a petition.... |
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How can you be attacked by an encyclopaedia? Until last week I would have thought the idea as absurd as being savaged by a tree frog. Now I know better. Wikipedia bites. Fortunately it can only do so in the electronic dreamland of the internet. But as we all increasingly discover, that world is.... |
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The queen of soul died last week, but her reach and legacy in American music live on. Aretha Louise Franklin passed away from pancreatic cancer on Aug. 16 at the age of 76. During her career, she released 42 studio albums, won 18 Grammy awards and sold more than 75 million records. |
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A crew from BBC World Service will record a program today at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that will air on Sept. 15, the anniversary of a bombing that killed four girls at the church in 1963. A panel featuring civil rights activist Bernard Lafayette, who took part in the Freedom Rides in 1961,.... |
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By Khanh Vu and James Pearson. HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese court found two Vietnamese-Americans guilty of terrorism on Wednesday and sentenced them to 14 years in prison for masterminding a series of bomb plots earlier this year, a court official told Reuters. |
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Statements by Ozersay on the crossing points and the US Chief of Staff's visit to Cyprus According to Turkish Cypriot illegal Bayrak television (22.08.18, http://www.brtk.net/ozersay-hukumet-irademiz-nettir-her-iki-kapi-da-yakinda-acilabilir/), Kudret Ozersay, self-styled foreign minister of the.... |
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Mr Dutton, a former policeman who has signalled a tougher approach on immigration and law and order, was expected to battle for the leadership against two more moderate candidates: foreign minister Julie Bishop and Scott Morrison, the treasurer, a position equivalent to Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
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The spiritual leader came, saw, and conquered the hearts and minds of the Irish people in 1979, writes Dan Buckley. IF your name is John Paul, the chances are you were born shortly after the visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland in 1979. One in 10 boys born in Ireland in 1980 was named in his honour.... |
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Outspoken TV personality, Deloris Frimpong-Manson known worldwide as Delay rarely talks about her assets but she could not hide them this time around when speaking at the 4th edition of International Youth Empowerment Summit (iYes) which started on Wednesday, August 22. |
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