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SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri city has unveiled a 177-foot-tall (53.95-meter) Christmas stocking it hopes will make the cut for the world's largest stocking. The Sedalia Democrat reports that Sedalia's stocking was officially measured Tuesday for entry to Guinness World Records. The current record was set by an Italian city in 2011. |
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SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri city has unveiled a 177-foot-tall (53.95-meter) Christmas stocking it hopes will make the cut for the world’s largest stocking. The Sedalia Democrat reports that Sedalia’s stocking was officially measured Tuesday for entry to Guinness World Records. The current record was set by an Italian city in 2011. |
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*It was the insistent knocking that finally woke her. “Housekeeping!” chirped a female voice on the other side of the door. The woman in 318 raised her short, messy, highlighted head from the pillow, squinting in the direction of a digital clock on the nightstand. Crap. She’d slept past checkout time. |
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Fogars de la Selva (Spain) (AFP) - Sitting at the foot of a mountain and surrounded by forests, the village of Fogars de la Selva has always voted for the winner in Catalan elections, and residents believe the separatists will win again on Thursday.
"Fogars de la Selva is Catalonia's Ohio," says.... |
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Prophet David Edward Owuor is a second born in a family of nine children made up of three boys and six girls. He was born in 1966 in Usenge, Kenya. Dr. David Edward Owuor is a scientist by profession. His father served as a civil servant with the East African Community Prison Service, serving in the position of a Sergeant Major. |
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The funeral arrangements for murdered Limerick woman Rose Hanrahan have been confirmed. The 78 year-old will lie in repose at Griffin's Funeral Home, John's Gate on Friday from 5pm, before removal at 6:30pm to St. Munchin's Church. Rose will then be laid to rest in Ballycannon Cemetery, Meelick on Saturday, following Requiem Mass at 11:30am. |
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At first, it seems like a classic algebra question: If a train, a plane and automobile leave Kitchener at 6:47 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, which will get to Toronto first? And which mode of transportation will arrive in time to make an important meeting downtown at 9:00 a. |
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Dekergar Duko, a lean father-of-two who crushes rocks for a living, often reminisces during his days of backbreaking labour about his life under Liberia’s warlord-turned-president, Charles Taylor. Living in a hovel metres (yards) away from the so-called “College of Knowledge” where the dreaded.... |
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King’s College choirboys prepare for the Christmas Eve service. The BBC broadcasts more than 7,000 hours of religious programmes each year. Photograph: Robinson/Rex/Shutterstock.
Faith organisations have welcomed a report that says the BBC should increase its coverage of religious issues, amid.... |
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King’s College choirboys prepare for the Christmas Eve service. The BBC broadcasts more than 7,000 hours of religious programmes each year. Photograph: Robinson/Rex/Shutterstock.
Faith organisations have welcomed a report that says the BBC should increase its coverage of religious issues, amid.... |
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Dekergar Duko, a lean father-of-two who crushes rocks for a living, often reminisces during his days of backbreaking labour about his life under Liberia’s warlord-turned-president, Charles Taylor. Living in a hovel metres (yards) away from the so-called “College of Knowledge” where the dreaded.... |
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