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Academy Awards THE winner – GOOGLE Result
Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep Directing: Avatar, The... »
Argentina vs Nigeria First match 12 June, Group B
Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg The ’Touch Down Restaurant’ testifies that this is a rugby citadel, witness to the Springboks’ 1995 Mandela-inspired World Cup win. A new tier on the north stand has increased seating capacity. Functional rather than beautiful Construction minor upgrade Capacity 61,639 First match 12 June, Group B, Argentina v Nigeria Still to do The pitch looked... »
First comic book featuring Superman
A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for one million US dollars, smashing the previous record price for a comic. Source: Wikipedia A 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books, was sold by a private seller to a private buyer, neither of whom... »
Bafta awards the winner
Well, they gave Avatar more Bafta awards than they gave Titanic, which won zero from ten in 1998. Source: Freebase But you could hardly have called it James Cameron’s night. Picking up Special Effects and Production Design early in the running, he was doubtless hoping for at least one of the Big Two – or perhaps... »
Expiration dates
There’s a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetid cow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat. A feast for one; I retrieve my frying pan. This is not... »
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling called on Thursday for a plagiarism case against her to be dismissed, describing it as “unfounded” and “absurd”. Source: Freebase In June, the estate of Adrian Jacobs issued proceedings at London’s High Court against Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, claiming that Rowling copied substantial parts of “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard —... »
Olympics schedule: USA mens and USA women’s
Vancouver: Vancouver 2010 Olympics schedule: USA mens and USA women’s Olympic hockey teams with their matches. The U.S. men hockey team won a preliminary game yesterday against Switzerland in the Vancouver Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place. With this 3-1 victory, the U.S. team’s hopes to bag a gold have been nourished. In an... »
Power punch and a speed tattoo
When Ben Loke wanted to boost his financial prospects, he approached neither his banker nor his broker. Source: Wikipedia Instead, the 35-year-old company executive asked a professional tattooist to ink on his back a “sak yant” religious symbol which he hoped would bring him wealth and happiness. “I’m a Buddhist, and the scriptures that are being tattooed... »
8,000 robots already in use
Can war be fought by lots of well-behaved machines, making it “safer for humans”? That is the seductive vision, and hope, of those manufacturing and researching the future of military robotics. With 8,000 robots already in use, they believe they can bring about a military revolution. Most of the robots currently deployed on land deal with... »
Osama bin Laden attacks on the United States
Osama bin Laden has warned Barack Obama, the US president, that there will be further attacks on the United States unless he takes steps to resolve the Palestinian situation. In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera on Sunday, the al-Qaeda chief, praised the Nigerian accused of a failed attempt to blow up an airliner... »
Behind the walls of polygamy town
A wall surrounds a large home nestled against jagged, red spires of rock in Hildale, Utah, in November 2007. Fences and no trespassing signs went up when stewardship of the town’s trust was handed to Bruce Wisan by the state. The walls block the view of Heber Holm’s tour bus. A woman takes a baby... »
Powerful 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California city of Eureka
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rocked the Northern California city of Eureka on Saturday, snapping power lines, toppling chimneys, knocking down traffic signals, shattering windows and prompting the evacuation of at least one apartment building. There were no reports of major injuries, but the temblor, which struck at 4:27 p.m. about 33 miles southwest of the... »
jobs creation program Arnold Schwarzenegger
Anxious to leave a legacy as the governor who revived California’s wheezing work force, Arnold Schwarzenegger has laid out an ambitious jobs creation program. It’s a task that will require a lot of heavy lifting, even for a former bodybuilder: The economy is wobbling, the state is broke, there are ample numbers of formidable... »
South Africa stay true to Mandela’s vision
The other day I saw the film Invictus in a cinema in Cape Town. It is the story of Nelson Mandela and the Rugby World Cup, which South Africa won in 1995 in the final against New Zealand. I was born just up the road from the cinema, which in turn is just across... »
Mayor Dixon resign on February 4th
Mayor Dixon has reached a plea agreement and she will resign on February 4th. Dixon entered an Alford plea to a charge of perjury, meaning she admits there is enough evidence to convict her on that charge but does not acknowledge guilt. “It is with deep regret and sadness that I will resign my position as... »
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