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• Yahoo History

  19 May 2013 ( #United States, #Louisiana, #Carol Bartz, #Jerry Yang, #Google, #Yahoo, #David Filo, #Marissa Mayer )

  Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is widely known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo!...

• Hoover Dam

  05 May 2013 ( #Nevada, #United States, #Herbert Hoover, #Great Depression, #Black Canyon of the Colorado, #Arizona, #Franklin D. Roosevelt, #Hoover Dam )

  Hoover Dam in Nevada (USA) Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the...

• The Eurozone

  01 May 2013 ( #Member state of the European Union, #Vatican City, #Eurozone, #European Central Bank, #San Marino, #European Union, #Eurogroup, #Cyprus )

  The eurozone officially called the euro area, [7] is an economic and monetary union (EMU) of 17 European Union (EU) member states that have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency and sole legal tender. The eurozone currently consists of Austria,...

• Buckingham Palace

  01 May 2013 ( #Palace, #Westminster Abbey, #Queen's Gallery, #Buckingham Palace, #Buckingham Palace Garden, #Royal Pavilion, #Royal Collection, #London )

  Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch. [1] Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at...

• Boynton Canyon-Sedona, Arizona, USA.

  05 May 2013 ( #United States, #Oak Creek Canyon, #Sedona Arizona, #Hiking, #Arizona, #Recreation, #Verde Canyon Railroad, #Trail )

  Sedona ( pron.: / s ɨ ˈ d oʊ n ə / ) is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,031. [1] Sedona's main attraction...

• Magic Johnson

  19 May 2013 ( #Johnson, #NBA Finals, #NBA, #Larry Bird, #National Basketball Association, #Magic Johnson, #Los Angeles Lakers, #Los Angeles Dodgers )

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player who played point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning championships in high school and college,...

• Nawaz Sharif Biography and History

  12 May 2013 ( #Pakistan Muslim League (N), #Nawaz Sharif, #Abdul Waheed Kakar, #Ghulam Ishaq Khan, #Pakistan, #Sharif, #Benazir Bhutto, #Ittefaq Group )

  Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu: نواز شریف , pronounced [nəˈʋaːz ʃəˈriːf] ; born 25 December 1949 [1] ) is a Pakistani politician and industrialist who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan for two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to...

• Seven Mile Bridge: Florida Keys, Florida

  05 May 2013 ( #Seven Mile Bridge, #United States, #Overseas Highway, #Florida Keys, #Overseas Railroad, #Little Duck Key, #Florida East Coast Railway, #Florida )

  The Seven Mile Bridge is a famous bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It connects Knight's Key (part of the city of Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the Lower Keys. Among the longest bridges...

• Al Baik (البيك) Saudi Arabia

  09 May 2013 ( #United Nations Development Programme, #Coca-Cola, #Mecca, #Jeddah, #McDonald, #Saudi Arabia, #Middle East, #Albaik )

  Fast food restaurants Al Baik in Medin Al Baik (البيك) is a chain of fast food restaurants in Saudi Arabia that primarily sells broasted chicken and shrimp with a variety of sauce. The chain has 40 branches in Jeddah, six in Mecca, three in Medina, one...

• Fall of Cricket in Asia.

  03 March 2013 ( #Luxman, #Cricket, #India, #Sri Lanka, #Test cricket, #Saeed Anwar, #England, #Australia )

  20 December, 2012 Recent events in Cricket show that like other sports graph of cricket is also falling in Asian countries. Some years ago it was dream for any country to won series in subcontinent on spin wickets but recent defeats of Sri Lanka and now...

• Regent's Park London

  01 May 2013 ( #City of Westminster, #Royal Park, #Regent, #Regents Park, #Park, #London Borough of Camden, #Crown Estate, #London )

  Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It lies within northern central London, partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden. [1] It contains Regent's College and the London Zoo....

• The Grand Canyon

  01 May 2013 ( #United States, #Colorado River, #Grand Canyon National Park, #Colorado, #Arizona, #Grand Canyon, #Woodrow Wilson, #Theodore Roosevelt )

  Overlook over the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon along the Escalante Route. The Grand Canyon (Hopi: Ongtupqa; Yavapai: Wi:kaʼi:la ) is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is contained...

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  19 May 2013 ( #NBA, #Alcindor, #National Basketball Association, #Oscar Robertson Trophy, #Naismith College Player of the Year, #Abdul-Jabbar, #New York City, #Kareem Abdul-Jabbar )

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., April 16, 1947) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles...

• Piracy in Somalia

  12 May 2013 ( #Somalia, #Piracy in Somalia, #International Maritime Organization, #German Institute for Economic Research, #Somali Civil War, #Maritime Security Patrol Area, #Indian Navy, #Gulf of Aden )

  Suspected pirates keep their hands in the air as directed by the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) as the visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) team prepares to apprehend them. Piracy off the coast of Somalia has been a threat to international...

• Google recognizes Palestine

  04 May 2013 ( #Palestine, #United Nations General Assembly, #Palestinian territories, #Palestinian people, #Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel), #Google, #Israel, #BBC )

  Internet search engine Google has taken a small but politically loaded step by changing the tagline on the homepage of its Palestinian version from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine.” The change, introduced at the beginning of May, shows Google’s...

• Bailout

  01 May 2013 ( #Hugh Hewitt, #Central bank, #United States, #Business, #Bailout, #Government, #Walter Bagehot, #Jeffrey Sachs )

  A bailout is a colloquial pejorative term for giving a loan to a company or country which faces serious financial difficulty or bankruptcy. It may also be used to allow a failing entity to fail gracefully without spreading contagion. [1] The term is maritime...

• The Pearl-Qatar

  04 May 2013 ( #Callison, #United Nations, #International Civil Aviation Organization, #Doha, #Qatar, #Pearl-Qatar, #Middle East, #Montreal )

  The Pearl-Qatar The Pearl-Qatar (TPQ) in Doha, Qatar, is an artificial island spanning nearly four million square metres. It is the first land in Qatar to be available for freehold ownership by foreign nationals. [1] As of spring 2012, there are more...

• What Is Really Happening In Turkey?

  09 June 2013 ( #Prime Minister of Turkey, #Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, #Bruce Willis, #Imam Hatip School, #Occupy Wall Street, #Turkey, #Justice and Development Party, #Amnesty International )

  Before I begin with what is actually happening in Turkey, there are some facts which need to be cleared first to gain an in... sight into the current political upheaval. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003. He was educated...

• US Gun Control Laws

  04 May 2013 ( #Gun control, #United States, #Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, #Firearm, #Richard Hofstadter, #American Revolutionary War, #Right to keep and bear arms, #Gun culture )

  Gun politics has long been among the most controversial issues in American politics. [1] For the last several decades, the debate regarding both the restriction and availability of firearms within the United States has been characterized by a stalemate...

• The Rohingya Muslims

  04 May 2013 ( #Myanmar, #Rakhine State, #Bengali, #Muslim, #Rohingya, #Burma, #Bangladesh, #Rohingya people )

  Stilt houses at Lake Inle, Myanmar. The Rohingya people (Ruáingga /ɹuájŋɡa/, Burmese: ရိုဟင်ဂျာ rui hang gya /ɹòhɪ̀ɴɡjà/, Bengali: রোহিঙ্গা Rohingga /ɹohiŋɡa/) are an ethnic group who practice Islam and speak Rohingya, an Indo-European language of the...

• Central London

  01 May 2013 ( #Westminster, #Southwark, #Marylebone, #Central London, #Lambeth, #England, #Holborn, #London )

  Central London is the innermost part of London, England. There is no official definition of its area, but its characteristics are understood to include a high density built environment, high land values, an elevated daytime population and a concentration...

• Evander Holyfield

  28 April 2013 ( #Larry Holmes, #World Boxing Association, #Riddick Bowe, #Evander Holyfield, #WBA, #International Boxing Federation, #Dwight Muhammad Qawi, #Mike Tyson )

  Evander Holyfield vs. Lou Savarese, El Paso Texas, June 30, 2007, photograph by John Kloepper Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American professional boxer. He is a former Undisputed World Champion in both the cruiserweightand heavyweight...

• The Geneva Conventions

  18 April 2013 ( #Treaty, #World War II, #Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, #Hague Conventions, #International law, #Fourth Geneva Convention, #Geneva Convention, #Third Geneva Convention )

  Geneva convention The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties , and three additional protocols , that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war . The singular term Geneva Convention denotes the agreements of...

• The Nuremberg Trials

  18 April 2013 ( #Nuremberg Trials, #Robert Ley, #Nazi Germany, #Adolf Hitler, #World War II, #Martin Bormann, #Joseph Goebbels, #Heinrich Himmler )

  ) The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals , held by the Allied forces of World War II , most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany . The trials were held in...

• George Foreman

  28 April 2013 ( #Muhammad Ali, #Joe Frazier, #Rumble in the Jungle, #Foreman, #Michael Moorer, #International Boxing Hall of Fame, #World Boxing Hall of Fame, #George Foreman )

  English: George Foreman speaking at the Rice Alliance Kickoff in Houston, Texas in September 2009. George Edward Foreman (nicknamed "Big George" [2] ) (born January 10, 1949) is a retired American professional boxer , former two-time World Heavyweight...