Category:June 30, 2006
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Boxing: Pacquiao stuns De La Hoya with eighth round TKO
Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008 Filipino WBC Lightweight Champion, Emmanuel “The Pacman” Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs) stopped American boxer and promoter Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya (39-6, 30 KOs) after eight rounds of the “The Dream Match” in MGM Grand Garden Arena, at Las Vegas, Nevada on December 6, 2008. De La Hoya’s corner threw […]
News briefs:April 24, 2005
Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2005 Contents 1 NYSE to merge with Archipelago; NASDAQ to buy Instinet 2 Bush nomination to UN post faces bi-partisan problems 3 Romanian reporters call for release of hostages in Iraq 4 5-year-old girl arrested and handcuffed by Florida police 5 British government considering new nuclear power stations
Firefighters rescue nearly a dozen animals in Buffalo, New York house fire
Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007 Buffalo, New York —A three alarm fire at a house owned by John and Evelyn Bencinich, two of the initiators of a lawsuit filed against the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal in Buffalo, required firefighters to rescue eight cats and two dogs in Buffalo, New York today. At about 8:30 (eastern time) […]
Amélie Mauresmo wins Australian Open
Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 French tennis champion Amélie Mauresmo yesterday won her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in Melbourne. Mauresmo was winning 6-1 2-0 when her opponent, Belgian player Justine Henin-Hardenne, retired, citing a stomach complaint. After winning a rally in the second game of the second set, Henin-Hardenne approached the umpire […]
Simon’s Rock College tests Alan Turing theories with ‘Imitation Game’ experiment
Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2005File:PICT4422.jpg File:GuessingGame01.jpg On Saturday April 16, students at Simon’s Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Dr. Richard Wallace of the A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation for their first time tested Alan Turing’s thought-experiment. The Imitation Game, based on the original Turing model for testing the ability of humans to recognize artificial intelligence (AI), […]
Hard drive technology breaks storage density record
Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2005 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the San Jose, California-based joint venture of Japanese storage vendor Hitachi and U.S. technology giant IBM, has set a new record for storage density at 230 gigabits per square inch (Gb/in2). The company has developed technology to implement a recording method known as perpendicular recording, which allowed […]
Discover Picturesque Waterfalls In Northeast Alabama
Posted onFind Out More About: Hotels In Sydney Australia Accomodation In Sydney Discover Picturesque Waterfalls in Northeast Alabama by Nova Sisk Northeast Alabama is home to several of the state s most picturesque waterfalls. Many of them are located in the mountainous terrain of Lookout Mountain and the southern Cumberland Plateau. Some waterfalls are relatively easy […]
Grandmother of Barack Obama dies at 86
Posted on Monday, November 3, 2008 Madelyn Dunham, the maternal grandmother of United States 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama, has died of cancer at 86, just one day before the election. Dunham, who was born in Peru, Kansas in 1922, helped to raise Obama from the age of 10. She lived in Honolulu, Hawaii for most of […]
Chicago requires blind students to take driver’s education
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 Mayra Ramirez, a 16 year old Chicago, USA student is blind. In order to graduate, she and dozens of other visually impaired students in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam. “In other classes, you don’t really feel different because you can do the work other people do,” […]