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The Murrah Building Explosion News Summary
IM LEHRER: There was a bombing at a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City today. Much of the nine-story office building was destroyed. Twenty people have been confirmed dead, including seventeen children. At least 200 people were injured. Scores are missing. The building housed offices of the Social Security Administration, the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms, among other federal agencies. It also contained a day care center. Officials said the bomb detonated in a car outside the building. They said they were looking at the possibility of a terrorist attack. No one has claimed responsibility. President Clinton spoke this afternoon at…
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Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen
Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen In what is being called the most important find in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings since the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, Discovery Channel’s Secrets of Egypt’s Lost Queen exclusively reveals archaeological, forensic and scientific evidence identifying a 3,000-year-old mummy as Hatshepsut, Egypt’s greatest female Pharaoh. More powerful than Cleopatra or Nefertiti, Hatshepsut stole the throne from her young stepson, dressed herself as a man, and in an unprecedented move, declared herself Pharaoh. Though her power stretched across Egypt and her reign was prosperous, Hatshepsut’s legacy was systematically erased from Egyptian history — historical records were destroyed, monuments torn down and her corpse removed from…
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The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin
The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin. Rhombus Media/Bullfrog Films, 1997. Director, Larry Weinstein. Music by the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra; conductor Valery Gergiev. 82-minute VHS video. Shostakovich angers Stalin with his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. From The War Symphonies. 28.8 | 56k “Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that, and that was why he hated music”: so wrote Soviet composer Dmitrii Shostakovich (1906-1975), the subject of The War Symphonies. The central argument of this excellent documentary is that Shostakovich was “the voice of his time.” Living under and occasionally cooperating with a dictatorial…
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Britain refused Thursday to offer Libyan former foreign minister immunity
BY DANICA KIRKA AND CASSANDRA VINOGRAD ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Britain refused Thursday to offer Libyan former foreign minister immunity from prosecution after his apparent defection, raising the possibility that Moussa Koussa could be prosecuted for his past role in propping up Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Within hours, Scottish prosecutors said they were seeking Koussa for questioning over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, many of them Americans. British Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed what he said was Koussa’s resignation, saying it showed that the Libyan leader’s regime was “fragmented, under pressure and crumbling from within.” Hague said “Koussa is not being offered any immunity from British or international…
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History of the Cherokee Morning Song
Cherokee Morning Song Arranged by Rita Coolidge and Robbie Robertson.Album: Music for the Native Americans
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Princess Diana’s Wedding Fairy-Tale Day Gives Few Hints of Sad Future By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide
Sketch of Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding dress designed by Elizabeth Emanuel. Getty Images / Central Press Called the “wedding of the century,” the wedding of Lady Diana Frances Spencer to Charles, Prince of Wales, took place on July 29, 1981, at St. Paul’s Cathedral. Diana was 20 years old, Charles 32 years old. Also see: Princess Diana Wedding Pictures Diana and Charles had been seeing each other for about six months when he proposed on February 3, 1981 at a dinner for two at Buckingham Palace. He knew she planned a vacation for the next week, and hoped she’d use the time to consider her answer. Officiants at the wedding of Diana…
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Vows: Britain’s Royal Wedding to Be Made Available on iTunes By: GLEN LEVY
Topics: APPLE, STEVE JOBS, IPOD, ITUNES, PRINCESS DIANA, DECCA RECORDS, PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE WILLIAM, KATE MIDDLETON, ROYAL WEDDING, WESTMINSTER ABBEY, ANNA BARRY Prince William and Kate Getty images/Chris Jackson When Steve Jobs and Apple brought out the iPod and iTunes 10 years ago, who would have ever thought that it could one day be used to showcase the Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton? That dream day is getting closer, in light of the announcement Wednesday that, for the first time in history, the entire April 29 ceremony at Westminster Abbey — including the couple’s vows — will be released digitally within hours via Britain’s Decca Records to online retailers such as iTunes. (More on TIME.com: See pictures of Kate…
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12-Year-Old Genius Expands Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong By: MICHELLE CASTILLO
Topics: ALBERT EINSTEIN, ASPERGER’S SYNDROME, BIG BANG THEORY,EDUCATION, JACOB BARNETT, MATH, MATHEMATICS, NATION, PRODIGIES,THEORY OF RELATIVITY Could Einstein’s Theory of Relativity be a few mathematical equations away from being disproved? Jacob Barnett of Hamilton County, Ind., who is just weeks shy of his 13th birthday, thinks so. And, he’s got the solutions to prove it. Barnett, who has an IQ of 170, explained his expanded theory of relativity — in a YouTube video. His mother Kristine Barnett, who admittedly flunked math, did what every other mother would do if her genius son started talking mathematical gibberish. She told him to explain the whole thing slowly while she taped her son explaining his take on the theory. (More on TIME.com: See…
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The Crash of 1929
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The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Molly Billings, June, 1997 modified RDS February, 2005 The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as “Spanish Flu” or “La Grippe” the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. The Grim Reaper by Louis Raemaekers In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down…
