Posted in Site News on Sep 4th, 2006
I am trying to move to a constant Title Case here. Basically, all titles should have their first and last word capitalized, and capitalize all other words except a, an, the, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, up, and, as, but, it, or, and nor. I will not be fixing old articles to reflect [...]
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Posted in Politics on Sep 4th, 2006
You can get up to a $60 refund/credit this year as a refund for overpaying on a tax imposed on phone calls (in this case the refund is only for the tax on long distance calls) to pay for the Spanish American War which took place in 1898. The war was paid off eons ago, [...]
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Posted in General on Sep 4th, 2006
All the best to Steve Irwin’s family and all of Australia for loosing a national treasure. Steve died Monday (Sunday US time) diving on the Great Barrier Reef filming his show when he was stabbed in the heart by a stingray. (More.) He died happy doing what he loved doing.
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Posted in General on Sep 4th, 2006
If you want to die of old age, you will have to leave the United States, as it is illegal here. Death because of old age was removed from the reasons that may be legally listed for cause of death in 1951. (Source: Discovery Magazine - 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Death and confirmed [...]
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