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NORMAN — Jay Duechting's favorite retreat doesn't have an 80-inch television, a wet bar or a fancy pool table. His refreshment comes from a small refrigerator filled with bottled water. The only form of electronic entertainment is a radio blaring “Sweet Child O' Mine” by Guns N' Roses. |
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In future times, when we are all dead and gone, the historians of tomorrow will have an incredibly detailed account of how people in the 20th and 21st centuries lived their lives. How? Through old newspapers. Papers, like the Chronicle , have charted the minutiae of daily live since Victorian times. |
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Thousands of internally displaced people are in dire need of food aid in South Sudan’s Amadi State, according to a local camp official. Nearly 4,878 people were displaced from their home village of Kediba and are now sheltering at a land owned by the Episcopal Church of Mundri Diocese. |
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A unique festive exhibition - and a huge concert - are being planned to light up the centre of Cambridge in December. The Rotary Club of Cambridge is organising a Christmas Tree Festival, decking out Great St Mary's Church with trees brought along by businesses and families. |
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WARSAW (Reuters) - When presidential aide Malgorzata Sadurska joined the board of Poland’s biggest and oldest insurance company this summer, her lack of business experience was no obstacle. Her main qualification to help run state-owned Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU) was something else -- loyalty to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. |
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A Islamic preacher from western Sydney has slammed Muslim parents for playing music to their children on the way to the mosque and allowing them to dance at home. Sunni fundamentalist morals campaigner Nassim Abdi said it was wrong for parents to have the radio on as they drove to and from the mosque. |
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WARSAW (Reuters) - When presidential aide Malgorzata Sadurska joined the board of Poland's biggest and oldest insurance company this summer, her lack of business experience was no obstacle. Her main qualification to help run state-owned Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen (PZU) was something else -- loyalty to the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. |
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By Marcin Goclowski WARSAW (Reuters) – When presidential aide Malgorzata Sadurska joined the board of Poland’s biggest and oldest insurance company this summer, her lack of business experience was no obstacle. Her main qualification to help run state-owned Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen ( PZU ) was.... |
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* Ruling conservatives tighten grip on big state firms. * PiS says its policy is in Polish national interests. * Critics say PiS uses state firms for own political ends. * PiS at odds with European Commission over court reforms. By Marcin Goclowski. WARSAW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - When presidential aide.... |
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A Navajo Code Talker who used his native language to outsmart the Japanese in World War II has died in New Mexico, Navajo Nation officials said. David Patterson Sr. died Sunday in Rio Rancho at age 94 from pneumonia and complications from subdural hematoma. Few Navajo Code Talkers are still alive. |
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Vegas! Canberra Symphony Orchestra. Llewellyn Hall, ANU. Saturday, October 14, 2pm. The Canberra Symphony Orchestra under Luke Spicer will be bringing a touch of Las Vegas to the national capital in its Matinee Magic concert on Saturday. The orchestra will be augmented with more trumpets, more.... |
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