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My Brushes With Fame

 by John Hatch
Posted: August 23, 2008
At around 10 years old, my friend Jaime and I used to play a simple game of bouncing a rubber ball off a blank wall and taking... Full story »
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The Anatomy Of A Negative Campaign

 by Wyatt McIntyre
Posted: July 2, 2008
The previous election we had mounted perhaps the best campaign we could, but with a young challenger, a relative unknown, the... Full story »
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European Championships Countdown: Greece's Rise & Fall

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: June 5, 2008
THE GLORY OF GREECE "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher Greece is... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 2000

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 25, 2008
The French rode their luck, especially in the Rotterdam Final where it took a last-gasp injury time goal to keep them in the match against Dino Zoff's... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1996

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 24, 2008
Euro '96's huge success owed a lot to the performances of the hosts England and the inventive play of surprise finalists the Czech Republic. For England... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1992

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 23, 2008
Denmark's remarkable success in winning Euro 92 was as unexpected as their actual participation in the tournament. The Danes only joined in the party as... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1988

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 22, 2008
Holland deservedly won their first international honour through playing the most enterprising and entertaining football of the whole tournament. Most... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1984

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 21, 2008
Hosts France won their first European Championship in some style, scoring goals for fun and delighting the watching football world with their free-flowing... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1980

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 20, 2008
There was a slight change to the 1980 European Championship Finals - UEFA decided that eight rather than four teams would qualify. From the two groups... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1972

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 18, 2008
The qualifying competition for the 1972 championship finals saw few surprises. In Group 7, however, the multi-skilled Dutch side came only second to 1968... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1968

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 17, 2008
For the 1968 tournament the 'European Nations Cup' became the 'European Football Championship' and 31 teams entered with the Finals held in Italy. In... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1964

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 16, 2008
For the 1964 Championship, all but three of the then 32 UEFA registered nations entered the competition, the final stages of which... Full story »
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History Of The European Championship: 1960

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 15, 2008
After the Preliminary and First Rounds, eight teams played off to qualify for the Finals which were to be held in France. Czechoslovakia... Full story »
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UEFA European Championship 2008: Tournament History

 by Sir Stephen
Posted: May 14, 2008
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, will take place in Austria and Switzerland from... Full story »
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Labor Day

 by Rom Sedona
Posted: May 2, 2008
Ever wonder why Labor Day is celebrated on May 1? Here's probably why: In 1884, in the U.S., an organization of trade and labor... Full story »
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The Ghost Of Gettysburg

 by Richard Day Gore
Posted: October 28, 2007
The otherworldly jumble of boulders, twisting paths and shadowy woods was supposedly called Devil’s Den long before the Union... Full story »
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Depression Years

 by Hannah Govorchin
Posted: November 9, 2006
I remember one time when out of desperation after demanding that he not have to be able to wait a year to be able to work and... Full story »
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How I Became Jewish

 by Matthias Erlandsen
Posted: September 14, 2006
I was raised in a normal Portuguese catholic family. My father, who died when I was thirteen years-old, even studied in a catholic seminary for some years,... Full story »
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Spelling 9/11

 by Bernie Griffiths
Posted: September 11, 2006
If UK and the US are two nations divided by a common language, as Shaw said, then Noah Webster is to blame. Consider the paragraph in italics. Should... Full story »
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