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Orlando Mass Shooting Not ‘Worst In US History’ — Forgotten Killings They Don’t Want You ...

Edit Inquisitr 13 Jun 2016
Victims’ families and friends mourn after the horrific Orlando mass shooting ... Could blacks own guns in 1919? Were they privy to the type of firepower that would have helped them stand their ground? Or, were they defenseless like the victims in Orlando’s mass shooting? ... “There were 26 such major events and hundreds of smaller ones in major cities and towns across the US during the summer of 1919 alone....

Obituary: Polish bomber pilot Jurek Grzmielewski escaped Nazi concentration camp

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Jun 2016
After the war he married Australian actress Joan Lord who performed alongside Dirk Bogarde, Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier ... After the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution they were arrested and sent to a Soviet gulag in Omsk in south-western Siberia ... After several years the Polish army exchanged Russian prisoners and Grzmielewski was allowed to return to Poland....

DiMaggio's HR in 10th extends Yankees' win streak

Edit MLB 13 Jun 2016
The New York club and its best hitter, Joe DiMaggio, were stuck in the American League doldrums just a few weeks ago, but after a dramatic 3 to 2 win over the White Sox at Comiskey Park on Thursday night before a crowd of 37,102 persons, they are heading back to the Bronx for a lengthy homestand with a serious head of steam ... Lee in the 10th inning....

Cubs starting staff keeps rolling — maybe toward history?

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 13 Jun 2016
ATLANTA – When Jon Lester pitched another seven innings Sunday without allowing an earned run, the Cubs’ starting rotation ascended yet another spot. Doing what no Cubs’ starting staff has done since the dead-ball era, the five-man rotation has a 2.30 ERA through 61 games that – if it were to hold up – would rank second only to the 1918 World Series team (2.16) in franchise history. And just ahead of the 1919 starting staff (2.31)....

DiMaggio's HR in 10th extends Yankees' win streak (MLB - Major League Baseball)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
DiMaggio, who had already singled in the fourth inning to extend his hitting streak to 26 games and climb within three games of the club record shared by Earle Combs (1931) and Roger Peckinpaugh (1919), hit a game-winning solo home run off Thornton Lee in the 10th inning ... Rewriting the record ... The win was worth the extra day's wait after rain washed out Wednesday's scheduled proceedings, and the night game brought about a lively crowd....

Shipwrecks, ping pong ball sized hail, and a tornado

Edit The Examiner 13 Jun 2016
Shipwrecks, ping pong ball sized hail, and a tornado top the list of Michigan weather events on this day in history. From the National Weather Service archives here events that happened on June 13 ... In October, 1852, the tips of her masts were discovered 30 feet below the surface, but the locality was not given ... The wood, bulk freight Gogebic was stranded and heavily damaged in 1919, at Dead Man's Rock in Lake Superior during a storm....

Tony Awards 2016: The best red carpet looks

Edit The Times of India 13 Jun 2016
The 70th annual awards ceremony, hosted by James Corden, took place at Beacon Theatre in New York on June 12 and it was one to watch. On Sunday night the Tonys took a historic turn when, "for the first time in the awards history, all four musical acting awards went to people of color.". While we celebrate the eventful night, let's not forget the ladies who brought elegance and glamour to the ceremony ... From around the web....

Leading International Energy Company Standardizes on AspenTech Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) Solutions

Edit Stockhouse 13 Jun 2016
After a thorough evaluation of available solutions, Statoil selected aspenONE MES, including the Aspen InfoPlus.21®, Aspen Manufacturing Master Data Manager (mMDM) and aspenONE Process Explorer products, as the company's standard IMS solution for offshore fields ... The zero footprint HTML5 platform ensures Statoil can rapidly deploy aspenONE MES to immediately benefit from continuous improvements in operating efficiency....

DEUTSCHE BANK: A Brexit might not be terrible news for British stocks after all

Edit Business Insider 13 Jun 2016
In the note, Deutsche analysts led by Sebastian Raedler argue that while stocks across the continent will fall, British companies will come out relatively unscathed from Brexit vote ... The FTSE 100 will drop by around 5%, the bank argues, an outperformance of 5% on the Stoxx 600 broad index of European shares, while Germany's DAX will be the worst hit individual index on the continent, falling as much as 10%, Deutsche argues....

Rate of slowdown in the Northern Ireland economy is the sharpest of any region in UK

Edit Belfast Telegraph 13 Jun 2016
Growth in the Northern Ireland economy was sluggish during May, with a marked fall in activity for construction firms, a major survey by Ulster Bank reveals today ... In fact, the survey said the fall in activity in construction was the sharpest in more than three years ... A survey from the Construction Employers' Federation (CEF) and PwC NI last week pointed to a fall in numbers of construction companies working in Great Britain....

Summer TV Preview: Which Shows Are Worth Staying Indoors?

Edit National Public Radio 13 Jun 2016
... to look like they're serving up high quality series and shows, while actually using the summer to experiment or burn off stuff that didn't turn out well enough for the heart of the TV season, fall and spring....

Debris, dust from broken road make life miserable for Vedapatti residents

Edit The Times of India 13 Jun 2016
The locals also live in constant fear of children falling off bicycles and motorbikes. The main road falling under Sathya Nagar, which is a part of ward six in Vedapatti panchayat, is divided into two portions ... We had to stop after laying the gravel on it in February as the model code of conduct came into place," said the executive officer N Ravisankar....

Canaries Are Shutout And Swept After 4-0 Loss On Sunday (Sioux Falls Canaries)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016
SIOUX FALLS, SD- The Sioux Falls Canaries offense once again struggled to find any sort of rhythm on Sunday afternoon, dropping the final game of the weekend homestand to the St ... Bircher (0-3, 2.61 ERA) settled down after the rocky start to his afternoon, holding the dangerous Saints offense scorless for the next five innings, before giving up a lead-off walk in the top of the 7th....
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