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Temps tie Boston record

Edit Boston Herald 29 May 2016
... tying the record for the day set in 1931, according to the National Weather Service....

Memorial Day: Top 10 patriotic songs to celebrate the U.S. holiday

Edit The Examiner 29 May 2016
Memorial Day weekend ... The Ten Best Patriotic Songs in the United States. 1 ... Though well-known years before, The Star Spangled Banner became the United States’ official National Anthem in 1931 by an act of the United States Congress. Sung by The Cactus Cuties. 2 ... Sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir ... My Country Tis of Thee is a lyric written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1931 and thereafter set to the British National Anthem, God Save the Queen....

NY historic group honors unknown soldiers from Colonial era

Edit Boston Herald 29 May 2016
A monument marks the place where the unknown soldiers were reburied after their remains were unearthed in 1931 by a road crew that was working south of the ......

Taking Stock: When 'the greatest thing since sliced bread' is recommended, buy the stock

Edit The Oklahoman 29 May 2016
Dear Mr. Berko ... I got rid of our old stockbroker, who was buying and selling biotech and high-tech stocks I never heard of, a year ago ... My favorite carbohydrate stock is Flowers Foods (FLO-$18.25), maker of Wonder bread, which, in 1931, was the first pre-sliced bread to be marketed in the nation. So when you use the popular phrase “the greatest thing since sliced bread,” you mean the greatest thing since Wonder bread came out in 1931 ... ....

Students engage with Frame on her home ground

Edit Otago Daily Times 29 May 2016
Franklin University Switzerland student Hella Wiedmer-Newman reads Janet Frame’s The Lagoon and Other Stories under a portrait of the author at Janet Frame House in Oamaru ... Frame lived at the house between 1931 and 1943 and several of her works were based on her views from the house and other Oamaru landmarks, such as the clock tower on the now Waitaki District Council building, which was once Oamaru's post office ... "I love her writing....

Football stars in search of souvenirs (FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
(Source. FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association). During the course of their careers, the stars of football devote all their energies to winning titles and trophies, yesterday evening being a case in point, as Real Madrid's players celebrated the club's 11thUEFA Champions League triumph ... Petersburg ... It means a lot to me.' ... The post-match act of swapping shirts goes back many years, to 14 May 1931 in fact ... It's unusual.'....

Phyllis M. Taylor to receive The Times-Picayune Loving Cup

Edit The Times Picayune 29 May 2016
For years, Phyllis M. Taylor has been a go-to philanthropist in New Orleans, a person on whom institutions have relied for big donations for projects in education, religion, the arts, the military and more ... She also is someone who takes a deep personal interest in the beneficiaries of the Patrick F ... For such service, Taylor has been chosen to receive The Times-Picayune Loving Cup for 2015 ... Martha M ... Not pictured ... Casanas, 1931; Thomas F ... L....

Fernando Pessoa: Poet in the shattered mirror

Edit Dawn 29 May 2016
We look with amusement or shock at the appearance in the mirror of the self which is our own and yet an alien who seems strangely disturbing ... Pessoa’s contemporaries included T.S. Eliot, W.B ... Eliot, W.B ... On some days a routine entry digresses into a thought revelatory of the interior self in an expression that foregrounds a distressing inner darkness in a luminous prose; his entry for Oct 16, 1931, begins, “Yes, it’s the sunset ... ....

Laurel Hill House: A former nurses’ dormitory is now home to luxury condos

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 28 May 2016
Homes can sometimes have surprising histories. Today, the light-filled front parlor of Doug and Loryn Brazier’s luxury condo in Laurel Hill House is decorated with art and antiques, and they entertain family and friends in the space. Several decades ago, the room had a different purpose. The Colonial Revival-style building, constructed on the Fan District’s West Avenue in 1931 and named after Confederate Gen. J.E.B ... _______________ ... ....

Forest in Verdun holds green legacy of war’s carnage

Edit Taipei Times 28 May 2016
The little blue flowers that have grown for a century now in France near the graves of the war dead at Douaumont can easily be mistaken for local forget-me-nots. In fact they are a foreign import ... The Battle of Verdun was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war ... Between 1923 and 1931, 36 million trees were planted along the German and French fortifications, around the trenches and around the bodies of the dead ... ....

Activists in state happy with new ST list

Edit The Times of India 28 May 2016
Ranchi. With the Centre giving nod to inclusion of new groups in the Scheduled Tribe list, at least nine tribal sub-castes in the state will get benefits ... "The list of aboroginals are being revised from time totime since british period. There were 18 aboroginals in 1872 which got amended to 26 in 1931, 29 in 1941, 30 in 1956 and 32 in 2003," he said expressing happiness that few more would be included now ... RELATED. From around the web....

On this day: Swiss duo become first men to reach stratosphere

Edit Scotsman 28 May 2016
Events, birthdays and anniversaries on 28 May. 585 BC. A timely total eclipse of the sun decided the Battle of Mesopotamia between Medes (now Iran) and Lydians (now Turkey). The blackened sky was read as a sign of God's anger and an immediate truce was called. 1841. Seven ministers of the Presbytery of Strathbogie were deposed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for obeying the civil rather than the ecclesiastical law ... 1931 ... ....

Election 2016: Bill Shorten's moment of clarity on his path to become prime minister

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 May 2016
Bill Shorten calls it his moment of clarity, when the steps he needed to take to be a serious contender for the prime ministership crystalised on a beach on the south coast of New South Wales ... Advertisement ... Shorten's last two addresses to his colleagues before the Christmas break had been brave and upbeat, but failed to instil a sense of belief that Labor could do what no opposition has done since 1931 ... Alex Ellinghausen ... ....
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