The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) commemorates the “miracle of the container of oil”. In 2009, the holidays lasts from sunset December 11 to sunset December 19 — a total of 8 days. Customary rituals include lighting of the 9 candles on the menorah, eating festive meals (like latkes and sufganiyot) and reciting...
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Matthew Cordell has set up a drive-thru prayer stand on the side of a road in Queen Creek Arizona. He welcomes commuters to stop by and pray with him (regardless of their need ~ spiritual, financial, etc.). His stand is open 3 days a week during the morning from 6:00 – 10:00am. He felt...
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Shiloh Pepin, the girl with the rare “Mermaid Syndrome”, died at age 10. Shiloh Pepin was born with fused legs and had gained a wide following on the Internet and U.S. television (after appearing on Oprah’s show). Doctors had predicted that she would only survive days after her birth, but “Mermaid Girl” proved them...
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President Obama declared the H1N1 flu to be a national emergency earlier today. This clears the way for legal waivers to allow hospitals and doctors offices to better handle a surge of new patients. This gives the Secretary of Health & Human Services the power to authorize waivers to individual medical facilities. The declaration...
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On Thursday, after three days of disappearance, Somer Thompson, was found dead in Georgia landfill. The 7 year old child was going to school on Monday when she disappeared. There was a vacant house the Somer Thompson home. Investigators believe that the kidnappers kept her there for three days and after that they killed...
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In Chennai, India, A man suffered from an injury on his left leg so he went ot the Gov’t Hopital. After being admitted, he was then thrown out of the hospital. He continued to wait, since he was still bleeding. When they finally took him in again, it was to the mortuary, because he...
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The starting cornerback for the University of Connecticut football team (Jasper Howard) died on Sunday after an on-campus stabbing just hours after the team’s victory over Louisville. Jasper Howard was near the uconn’s university Student Union near the center of the UConn campus when he was stabbed (just after midnight). A University dance had...
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Earlier today, a fake bus driver attempted to abduct several young kids. The Willow River Elementary School kids were waiting for the morning bus to take them to school when a grey-haired woman driving a short, plain yellow bus stopped. The fake bus driver told the kids that their bus had broken down and...
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A roadside bomb has killed four US soldiers in Afghanistan on Thurdsya.. ‘Two US service members were killed and two died of wounds sustained in a single improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan. President Barack Obama is under pressure to order thousands more soldiers into an escalating eight-year war No further details were...
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Sixty-two-year-old John Tabutt, from Florida , was sleeping last night and thought there was an intruder in his house. Not knowing who it was, and wanting to be a protective to-be husband (thinking his fiance was asleep in bed), he got out his gun and fired into the hallway where he heard the footsteps....
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