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A Filipino villager plans to be nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea. Ruben Enaje, a 63-year-old carpenter and sign painter, says he and seven other villagers have registered for the real-life crucifixions. The gory ritual resumed last year after
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Kyle needs 2,326 Kyles to set the Guinness World Record. The city of Kyle, Texas, is asking anyone with the name Kyle to join them on May 18 to break the record for the largest same-name gathering. To qualify, participants must be named Kyle – spelled the same way the city does for their entry to count toward the record. This will be the fifth time Kyle has attempted to break this record in Bosnia and Herzegovina on July 30, 2017.
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Pat Kelsey is the polar opposite of Kenny Payne. He’s the perfect hire at the perfect time for this program. Pat is going to revitalize the community in the coming months to be excited about Louisville basketball again.
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In this article, we will be navigating through global homelessness while covering the 20 countries with the lowest homeless population in the world. The concept extends from a lack of physical shelter to social exclusion. Homeless groups include people living in open spaces, streets, temporary emergency accommodations, shelters, as well as informal settlements. In this regard, countries have been fighting their battles against homelessness.
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Norm MacDonald (The Orville) invoking the incident every chance he got: “9/11 was a National Tragedy” Some say comedy is tragedy plus time, and enough time has passed, it seems, for some people to consider 9/11 jokes acceptable. The first would be the rise of the 9/11 conspiracies, which would indeed be categorized as some type of trauma response but were nonetheless mocked for their inanity.
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Colorado Springs received only 2.74 inches of precipitation in August 2020, 0.61 inches below the usual. On Aug. 26 and 28, it stormed. The precipitation far exceeded the modest showers I had anticipated. In the years since, I have learned to better understand Colorado’s strange climate.
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Alyona Kazinskaya and a friend had bought last-minute tickets to see Soviet-era rock group "Picnic's perform in front of 6,200 people at a concert hall near Moscow. They thought about taking their daughters but decided to go by themselves. At 8:01 p.m. she posted a first 10-second audio message on her Telegram channel, sounding breathless and frightened as loud bursts of gunfire rang out.
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The Texas Rangers clinched their first World Series as a franchise in November, when they beat the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games. The Rangers unveiled its first championship banner in a pregame ceremony Thursday night.
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EMILY MACKAY: I feel like for the past, I guess three or four years I've been steadily progressing and I hope to keep going on that trajectory. I think staying healthy has been the main factor in that. I'd rather be healthy and not overtraining...Like Coach Mark says a lot, ‘Let's not get greedy.’ So if we’re not getting greedy, we're not racing too much.
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The Texas Rangers started off their season with a World Series banner. The reigning champs began their season by revealing the most visible spoil of their first MLB title before facing the Chicago Cubs at Globe Life Field. Manager Bruce Bochy and pitcher Josh Sborz began the fun by wheeling out the Commissioner's Trophy.
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