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Oldest woman to climb Mount Everest
73-year-old becomes oldest woman to climb Mount Everest – CNN.com By Manesh Shrestha, for CNN updated 10:38 AM EDT, Sat May 19, 2012 Full Article http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/19/world/asia/nepal-everest-cimb/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Tamae Watanabe, pictured in June 2004, joins the 4,000 people who have climbed Everest. Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A 73-year-old Japanese woman on Saturday became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest breaking her own 10-year-old record. Read More
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Historic IPO
Robert Hof, Contributor |Full Article http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/05/17/its-official-facebook-raises-16-billion-in-historic-ipo/ 5/17/2012 @ 5:16PM |1,310 views It’s Official! Facebook Raises $16 Billion in Historic IPO It may be no surprise, but Facebook just announced it will indeed go public at $38 a share, raising $16 billion in an initial public offering that values the No. 1 social network at $104 billion. That’s the highest ever for a U.S. company, at least Read More
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Eisenhower Memorial
Full article www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-usa-eisenhowermemoriall1e8gfmkx-20120515,0,727919.story chicagotribune.com Architect Gehry proposes changes to Eisenhower memorial Reuters 6:13 PM CDT, May 15, 2012 By Lily Kuo WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) – Architect Frank Gehry submitted changes on Tuesday to a memorial planned for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a project that has Read More
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I Almost Missed the Jesus Revolution
It was a Monday, June 21, 1971, when Time magazine had a picture of Jesus on its cover; obviously not an actual photograph, since the necessary technology was yet to be conceived of in 1st century AD, but instead a likeness. An accurate likeness to the real Christ is doubtful, but rather a similar likeness of Him as depicted by religious paintings and icons; the earliest known portrait was discovered in Syria around 235. (^ Brandon, S.G.F, “Christ in verbal and depicted imagery”. Neusner, Jacob (ed.): Christianity, Judaism and other Greco-Roman cults: Studies for Morton Smith at sixty. Part Two: Early Christianity, pp. 166–167. BRILL, 1975. ISBN 978-90-04-04215-5) The Times’…
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Madeleine Albright is born
May 15, 1937: Full Article On this day in 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, is born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). The daughter of Czech diplomat Josef Korbel, Albright fled to England with her family after the Read More