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UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
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UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.
Google celebrates H.G. Wells' birthday
Google has explained the presence of UFO and crop circle doodles on its main page, saying they put were to mark the birthday of British author H.G. Wells.
Going green in Europe
In August, Spain introduced Europe's first plan for saving gas, diesel fuel and electricity, imposing stringent limits on speed and energy consumption. Given current prices for fossil fuels, other countries in Europe and the rest of the world are bound to follow suit, and many of them already are preparing to do so.
Defense Focus: Villain and hero -- Part 2
The biggest transformation of the public mood towards major armaments corporations occurred in Britain in 1937-40.
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UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007.
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UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 21, 2007.
Researcher: Churchill borrowed from Wells
A researcher at Britain's Cambridge University has claimed Winston Churchill borrowed lines for one of his speeches from science fiction writer H.G. Wells.
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UPI almanac for Monday, Oct. 30, 2006.
The Almanac
Today is Thursday, Sept. 21, the 264th day of 2006 with 101 to follow.
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In one quarter palaces of marble, laced and crowned with light and flame and flowers, towered up into her marvelous twilights beautiful beyond description; in another, a black and sinister polyglot population sweltered in indescribable congestion in warrens, and excavations beyond the power and knowledge of government
Commentary: Why the terrorists chose NYC
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She was the supreme type of the city of the Scientific Commercial Age; she displayed its greatness, its power, its ruthless anarchic enterprise, and its social disorganization most strikingly and completely ... she was the center of the world's finance, the world's trade, and the world's pleasure ... she was an ethnic whirlpool ... the flags of all nations flew in her harbors, and at the climax, the yearly coming and going overseas numbered together upwards of two million human beings
Commentary: Why the terrorists chose NYC
United Press International
No one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than our own...(that) regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us
Opinion: Planetary show eases earthly ills
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The journey begins now. There is no line between fantasy and reality
What happened to Vegas showrooms?
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A child is seen playing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the Brandenburg Gate where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa