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Not only has Canada beaten the U.S. in an Olympic final twice this century, it also beat the Americans in the final of last year’s 4 Nations Face-Off.
From Los Angeles Times
The most valuable songbook of the century now belonged to a television baron.
Detective-fiction writers of the early 20th century offered readers stories that were also carefully constructed puzzles to be solved.
Theodosius was the Christian Roman emperor who embraced the Nicene Creed as the religion of empire in the late fourth century, conducting a single-minded suppression of paganism in the lands over which he ruled.
“It is also telling that in IEEPA’s half century of existence, no president has invoked the statute to impose any tariffs, let alone tariffs of this magnitude and scope,” the ruling continues.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
