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79garvaghy road: the moment of truth
If I could pick only one specific moment that personified to me the 30-odd years that have been called 'the Troubles' in the north of Ireland, this one would be it. I research a lot of data on a lot of...
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76The Irish invade Canada
"We are the Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war, And we're going to fight for Ireland, the land we adore, Many battles we...
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70Drano: the Alito hearings and Constitutional Law
Seven Machos, You have not explained why it would be unconstituional, in your belief, for the states to pass...
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63borrowed stiletto poetry
high heelz racing click click clicking on giving ground they can never outrun the cost of being female in a society that values only income and assetswe are born bootstraps in hand so men profess no mother...
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75Mother of 555 pound teenager charged with neglect: Is child obesity abuse?
Mother of 555 pound teenager charged with neglect 25 June 2009 link "(CBS) A mother is being charged with neglecting her obese teenage son, raising issues about whether the government has the right to...
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70Thatcher and Terrorism: Lessons in Hypocrisy
various editorials, articles and updates on Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher, convicted terrorist. this needs to be read in full; click the link and check it out. - Idunn 8/26/04 ...
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65Rare film footage of manx and welsh at 1916 Rising Fiftieth Anniversary
"Rare footage of inter-Celtic involvement in the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Easter rising has come to light. The brief item which is accessible off the RTE website shows the Manx and Welsh...
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62anyone remember this
On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn't have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.
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64frozen sparrow haiku
In 1888, NYC underwent one of the worst blizzards ever. I was watching "Wrath of God" on the History channel (well listening, because I was on the computer and had the TV on as usual) and I caught the...
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56your kind of war - poetry for shrubz
your kind of war, isn't it Mr. Bush? nice thing about Frozen Sparrowz - too frozen for flight burdened by poverty disenfranchised from society bereft of hope numbed by not mattering and held in place by the...
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