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Emissions questions
November 7, 2010
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Perhaps soon it will be understood how $15 million was spent on three new emissions testing facilities operated by BECL? And perhaps this understanding will shed light on how such a fantastic sum was spe...
DATE: Nov 10, 2010
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The Bermuda Islands Pipe Band is to lead the Remembrance Day Parade on Thursday. The group was not named in information provided to The Royal Gazette for an article which ran in Tuesday's edition.
DATE: Nov 10, 2010
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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said during the Great Depression, and in doing so, he captured the conundrum of economic recovery. More than anything else, recovery depends on individuals overcoming th...
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Ninety-two years ago tomorrow, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, and the horror that was the First World War was over. Twenty-one years later, the Second World War broke out, proving that the war to end all wars was no such thing. Millions m...
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Today is Wednesday, Nov. 10, the 314th day of 2010. There are 51 days left in the year.
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In 1775, the US Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish mis...
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Marine artist Stephen Card was incorrectly referred to as a 'seaman' in a headline of the November 5 edition of Lifestyle. He was a officer in the Merchant Navy with the rank of Captain.
DATE: Nov 09, 2010
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Today is Tuesday, Nov. 9, the 313th day of 2010. There are 52 days left in the year.
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In 1872, fire destroyed nearly 800 buildings in Boston.
In 1918, it was announced that Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the ...
DATE: Nov 09, 2010
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In praise of Dale
November 8, 2010
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Yesterday I attended the screening of the film "Chilled and Shaken". This film is a documentary on the closing of Hubie's Bar on Angle Street – the mecca for live Jazz music in Bermuda for over 20 years. D...
DATE: Nov 09, 2010
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Who'll win census race?
November 2, 2010
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China began its census of 1.3 billion people spread across 3.7 million square miles this week.
Bermuda began its Census of 65,000 people spread across 21 square miles six months ago.
I wonder who wil...
DATE: Nov 08, 2010
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Today is Monday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2010. There are 53 days left in the year.
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In 1923, Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch...
DATE: Nov 08, 2010
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