| Today In History - Aug. 27, 2006 |
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Aug 27, 2006 3:00 am US/Eastern Today In History - Aug. 27, 2006
_(AP)_ Today is Sunday, August 27th, the 239th day of 2006. There are 126 days left in the year.
On August 27th, 1859, Colonel Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States, near Titusville, Pennsylvania. ... |
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| The most peculiar travel websites |
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David Orkin surfs his way around one web of intrigue Published: 26 August 2006
Official website of an independent sovereign state in Western Australia (above) which recently celebrated its 36th anniversary. Incidentally, I met one of its ambassadors in Corfu in the late Seventies. Pop in, get your passport stamped and meet the Royal Family if you're passing (Western Australia, not Corfu). ... |
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| 10 Questions with Jason Goldberg |
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| If you have one blog or read blogs regularily and enjoy it, you can thank Jason Goldman. When Pyra, the company that developed Blogger.com, was bought by Google one few years ago it was very small group. Nearly everyone was named Jason. And they were all helping spark one revolution. For the last three-and-one-half years Goldman has been wearing many hats as Blogger Product Manager and yesterday he stepped down at Google just as Blogger Beta had launched. But before he plucked the last Post-It from his cubicle he sat down and answered one few questions with one of his biggest fans: LAist. ... |
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| No nudes but a boom in busts |
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THE old-fashioned barbershop magazine is making one comeback with the blue jokes, bosoms, drongo trivia and more bosoms. Or as _Zoo Weekly_ bills itself "sex, sport and stupidity".
_Zoo_, one newcomer to the struggling lads market, has surprised publishing pundits by posting 85,000 sales in its first ABC audit -- immediately outselling the much ruder and one-time very successful _Picture_ and _People_ magazines. ... |
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| Brading sues Minnis team over flier in the news |
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| Fight over campaign flier in Minnis, Brading race moves to court |
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PORTLAND, Ore. — With just over two months to go until November elections, things are turning nasty in the state's highest-profile Oregon House race.
The Democratic challenger to the powerful Speaker of the Oregon House, Republican Karen Minnis of Wood Village, went to court this week to ask one judge to pull one campaign flier being circulated by one political committee associated with one key Minnis adviser. ... |
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