My parents are in Australia and they sent me the picture below of my mother and a kangaroo ( Read more... )

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It was exactly 20 years ago that I saw Chuck Berry play an outdoor concert at Umass...

Chuck Berry       1988     Southwest Fields, UMass

This was so great.  The best concert I'd been to, as I really considered Chuck Berry to be a living legend... he still is...  This free concert was another great one for atmosphere at UMass.  The last one before ( Read more... )

Know your diasporas !     Here are just a few of my favorites (from Wikipedia):

• The Acadian diaspora - the Great Expulsion (Grand Dérangement) occurred when the British expelled about 10,000 Acadians (over three-fourths of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia) between 1755 and 1764. The British split the Acadians between different colonies to ( Read more... )

According to the AP, via Forbes:

As of Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006, at least 2,906 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,330 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

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  Barry Bonds - soon to pass the Babe
Tony Blair - move over for Mr. Brown Brant Webb - down in a hole in Tasmania Kentucky Derby - horses for courses Cinco de Mayo - drink up, amigos

You've probably been waiting all week for this...

Top newsmakers for the past 7 days:

Commonwealth Games - in Australia (yawn)
Ehud Olmert - Israeli PM
Zacarias Moussaoui - sky pilot
Players Championship - golf, I think
Tiger Woods - golfer extraordinaire

...and all month for *this*...

Top Newsmakers for the month of March:

Commonwealth ( Read more... )

It's Wednesday afternoon again, and you know what that means....  or perhaps you don't.  Well, it means I post the 5 top news items of the past 7 days according to me and GoogleNews:

And here they are:

Slobodan Milosevic     still dead Commonwealth Games  still boring ( Read more... )

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1553872.htmRead more... )