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Editor’s note: In 1987, former staff writer Lew Powell compiled this list of 100 terms, names, places and dates ‘every Charlottean needs to know.’ Today? Well, not so much. As Lew now observes: “ In some parts of the world, not much changes in 30 years, but we don’t live in one...” Check it out: 1. Crackers manufactured by Charlotte’s Lance Inc. |
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Protect the vulnerable and powerless. Free speech is essential to democracy. Freedom also brings a principal responsibility to do no harm. Speech is uplifting (think of a great actor or singer) or degrading (think of Hitler and the fraudster). The Andrew Bolts and Bill Leaks of this world talk hard and generally deserve what comes back. |
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Bristol is renowned across the world as the coolest city in Britain. But what makes Bristol cool? Not the floating harbour, the boulevards of Knowle, the hills of Totterdown nor even the Suspension Bridge. No, what makes Bristol cool are its people. And here are the 50 coolest Bristol people alive today. |
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A veteran from south east Cornwall fired his gun three times at an innocent, unarmed man who was killed as he ran away from an army patrol in Northern Ireland in 1974, a court has heard. Dennis Hutchings, of New Road in Cawsand, Torpoint, appeared in Armagh Magistrates' Court in Northern Ireland on.... |
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DALLAS - Community activists are working on a “peace treaty” between two rival gangs to try to prevent another outbreak of violence after a Sunday shootout in a crowded South Dallas park injured two teens. The weekend shooting occurred as a large crowd gathered to remember two documented gang.... |
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One of Namibia’s leading Kwaito stars, Morocky Mbwaluh, aka The Dogg, recently published his autobiography titled, Ther Dogg: Untold Story . As part of the reading culture campaign launched by the New Era Publication Corporation (NEPC) in conjunction with the Minister of Education, Honourable Dawid.... |
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Authorities in Yei River State reached a peace deal with an armed group affiliated to South Sudan’s main opposition faction led by former first vice president Riek Machar in Uganda’s capital, Kampala on 6 March. The deal was brokered by Evangelical Presbyterian Bishop Elias Taban with support from the US-based organization His Voice Global. |
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SPARTANBURG, SC (FOX Carolina) - Nationally known radio host Dave Ramsey and best-selling author Chris Hogan will speak Wednesday evening at the Ramsey Solutions' Smart Money event in Spartanburg. Ramsey and Hogan will cover a wide array of personal finance topics such as budgeting, paying off debt and saving for retirement. |
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any former celebrity. But it’s in keeping with the persona Simmons built around himself. Simmons didn’t leap into the national spotlight by accident. However much we may bemoan the prying eye of the media, in most cases you have to work hard to get there. And to stay there for decades, as Simmons did, you have to work relentlessly. |
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On paper, it shouldn’t have worked out. Friendship between a Presbyterian church leader and a prominent republican would have seemed to many impossible, or at least highly unlikely, in a country emerging from conflict.
But over the past decade, Martin McGuinness and Reverend David Latimer managed.... |
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Plateau Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Mr Samuel Galadima, slumped and died on Wednesday, while jogging along with Governor Simon Lalong, at the Rwang Pam Stadium, Jos. Director of Press Affairs, Mr Emmanuel Nanle, confirmed the incident to reporters. |
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