Wikinews wanders the Referendum-year Edinburgh Festival Fringe

30 June, 2018

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014 With many venues reporting sell-out shows, the 68th year of the Edinburgh Festival attracted visitors from around the globe. Wikinews’ Brian McNeil roamed the city for the four weeks of the event, capturing the colour, spectacle, and comedy, in photos. The image gallery below may take some time to load on […]

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The Connections You Make In College &Amp; The Importance Of Going Greek

29 June, 2018

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Get More Information Here: Shirts For Sale Online Buy Shirts Online By Kim Hall Do You Put The ‘eek’ in Greek? Sorority chants and stories of Greek weeks past come rolling through my mind as I scroll down the page of a Greek apparel website. Tempted to invest in a new hoodie, I quickly remind […]

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New York tour bus crash kills 14

29 June, 2018

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 Correction — March 15, 2011 The destination of the bus was in Manhattan, not Uncasville as stated in the article.  Sunday, March 13, 2011 At least fourteen people have died after a chartered bus crashed in The Bronx, New York. According to authorities, the tour bus accident also injured eighteen other people, amongst which five were […]

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Deadly fire below US President’s Trump Tower residence

29 June, 2018

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018 On Saturday, the Trump Tower, in Midtown, New York City, caught fire shortly before 18:00 EST (2200 UTC) on the 50th floor, claiming the life of a 67-year-old resident, Todd Brassner, who lived in apartment 50C. All other residents were evacuated without incident. During the fire, six firefighters received non-life-threatening burns […]

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Woman finds human finger in bowl of chili at Wendy’s restaurant

29 June, 2018

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Thursday, March 24, 2005 San Jose, California — A woman eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant bit into a chewy bit that turned out to be a human finger. She immediately spat it out, warned other patrons to stop eating, and upon recognizing the object as a finger, vomited. “I’m more of […]

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Pfizer and Microsoft team up against Viagra spam

29 June, 2018

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Sunday, February 13, 2005 New York –”Buy cheap Viagra through us – no prescription required!” Anyone with an active email account will recognize lines like this one. According to some reports, unsolicited advertisements (spam) for Viagra and similar drugs account for one in four spam messages. BACKGROUND Spamming remains one of the biggest problems facing […]

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Congressman Cunningham admits taking bribes

29 June, 2018

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Monday, November 28, 2005 U.S. Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R–CA) pled guilty today to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence as a member of the House Appropriations Committee to help a defense contractor get business. In total he pled guilty to one count of income tax evasion and four counts of […]

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What Is Bee Pollen Good For?

28 June, 2018

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By Cynthia Wang For ages, bee pollen had been used as a dietary supplement primarily by the ancient Egyptian and Chinese civilizations. Its many uses in the realm of medicine have long been discovered and up to the present times, bee pollens miracle uses make it popular and for some people they consider as natures […]

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First international flight lands at Delhi airport’s new Terminal 3

28 June, 2018

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Friday, July 16, 2010 File:T3 concourse day.jpg An Air India Boeing 777 from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was the first international flight to land at Delhi’s new Terminal 3 at Indira Gandhi International Airport. However, this was only one of nine “terminal process proving flights” that landed or departed from the brand-new […]

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Former Australian PM helps to launch ‘anti-warmist manual’

26 June, 2018

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard supported the launch of a new book “How to Get Expelled from School: A Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Pundits and Parents”, authored by geology professor Ian Plimer. The book includes 101 questions for students to use to challenge their climate science teachers. The […]

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