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Man uses home-made flamethrower to set relatives on fire

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Sunday, October 5, 2008 An Austrian man is in jail after authorities say he used a flamethrower to burn his two elderly in-law parents to death as they slept in their home located in Hartberg in the state of Styria. The man, 48, is said to have first doused the bedroom with gasoline and then
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Kerik nominated as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security

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Thursday, December 2, 2004 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Bernard B. Kerik, the police commissioner of the New York Police Department during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to succeed Tom Ridge as the Secretary of Homeland Security. Kerik resigned as police commissioner two months following the terrorist attacks, citing the
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John Constable painting location mystery solved after 195 years

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 The mystery of the location of a viewpoint used by English painter John Constable has been solved, after nearly 200 years. The Stour Valley and Dedham Church was painted in Suffolk, England, between 1814 and 1815, but changes to the landscape meant that the spot he chose was not known, despite
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“Massive” oil spill in Alaska

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Monday, March 13, 2006 BBC News is reporting “up to 267,000 gallons (one million litres)” of crude oil has leaked from a pipeline in the Prudhoe Bay oilfield. Although not as large as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, this is thought to be the largest spill on record affecting the Alaska North Slope.
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Category:April 23, 2010

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? April 22, 2010 April 24, 2010 ? April 23 Pages in category “April 23, 2010”
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Daisuke Enomoto will be the fourth space tourist at the ISS

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Friday, March 10, 2006Japanese entrepreneur Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto, 34, is set to become the fourth private citizen in space. The Arlington, Virginia-based company “Space Adventures”, which specializes in spaceflight-related travel, announced on March 7 that Enomoto was approved by the Russian space agency as a flight candidate. Enomoto has now passed the physical examinations necessary
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Mars orbiter finds widespread evidence of water-bearing minerals

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found evidence of hydrated silica or opal, a form of mineral, over large areas in the Martian surface, including in the large martian canyon called Valles Marineris. The discovery was made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) instrument on the orbiter. The findings are published
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Australia Votes 2007: Liberals promise personal income tax cuts

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 With the election campaign just beginning, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has promised AU$34 billion in personal income tax cuts over the next three years. That is on top of $31.5 billion announced in May, and $36.7 billion announced in 2006. The new tax cuts are based on new projections for
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BBC spends £3.4m on sell-off

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Friday, June 27, 2008 Newspaper The Guardian reports today that the sale of the BBC subsidiary BBC Resources Ltd., has cost £3.4m in consultancy fees — over £1m more than the £2.3m trading profit the commercial division is estimated to have made for the last financial year. Details of the failed privatisation were released by
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