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Canada contributes weather station to NASA Mars mission

Saturday, April 14, 2007 Canada has contributed a significant component to NASA’s Phoenix mission to Mars, announced Maxime Bernier, Canada’s Minister of Industry. In a news release on Thursday, Bernier, who is also responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), indicated that Canada had provided a meteorological station, named MET. The Phoenix Lander, with several

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Hiring A House Removals Van

Here’s An Opinion On: Materials Handling Equipment Australia Submitted by: Rana Bill If you are moving a small home or condo or even an apartment you may find you only need a small house removals van to complete the move. You still need to get a couple of estimates for the move because you want

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American comedian Mitch Hedberg dies on tour at 37

Saturday, April 2, 2005 Stand-up comedian Mitch Hedberg was found dead Wednesday in his hotel room in New Jersey. The comedian, originally from the St. Paul, Minnesota region, was on an east coast tour of the USA. Hedberg started his career in South Florida, and later worked in Seattle. While the cause of Hedberg’s death

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Space Shuttle Discovery resumes rollout to launch pad

Wednesday, April 6, 2005 NASA reports that the Return to Flight mission has started to roll toward the launch pad once again. The rollout of the shuttle Discovery, scheduled for April 5 around midnight local time, was moved forward as a precaution when a small crack was discovered in the foam insulation on an external

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Woman killed in house fire in South Yorkshire, England

Monday, January 25, 2010 An elderly woman has died in a house fire in South Yorkshire, England. The woman, who is currently remaining unidentified, was blind and 93-years-old when her bungalow in Sheffield caught fire as a result of an accident in her kitchen yesterday afternoon. An internal investigation into the fire has suggested that

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Musharraf quits as chief of army staff in Pakistan

Thursday, November 29, 2007 President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave up his uniform in a ceremony yesterday in Rawalpindi. He handed power over to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, after being the leader of the army for nine years. In his final address as leader of the army, he

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‘Earned It’ earns The Weeknd his first Grammy

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 On Monday, at the 58th Grammy Awards ceremony, Canadian singer The Weeknd won his first Grammy Award, Best R&B Performance, for his song Earned It, which was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey movie based on E.L. James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The

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Feud between CNBC and The Daily Show continues to escalate

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Jim Cramer, CNBC’s host of Mad Money, plans to appear on The Daily Show Thursday, in the midst of an escalating feud between Cramer and the Comedy Central show’s host, Jon Stewart. Jim Cramer has been the only CNBC employee to publicly respond to Daily Show segments strongly criticizing the television

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