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Li Ka-shing foresees HK realty recovery

Edit China Daily 16 Jan 2017

Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing expects property prices in the city will rise "a little bit" this year, even as the government takes steps to cool the world's costliest real estate market ... CK Property shares are down about 15 percent since the tax was increased ... Li, 88, arrived in Hong Kong from the war-ravaged Chinese mainland in 1940 and started his fortune making plastic flowers to export to the West ... ....

The bald and the bold: Eagles' resurgence comes at a price

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 16 Jan 2017

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The eagle has landed — on chickens and rare birds, with talons at the ready. The resurgence of the bald eagle is one of America’s greatest conservation success stories ... “It’s a fully protected bird ... Such action came in the form of federal protections, including the 1940 Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which prevents almost everyone from so much as disturbing the birds and still stands today....

Kevin Starr, author of California histories and former state librarian, dies at 76

Edit Times Free Press 16 Jan 2017

LOS ANGELES - Former California State Librarian Kevin Starr, who produced rich social, cultural and political histories that chronicled the origins and rapid transformation of the Golden State, has died. He was 76. Starr, a professor at the University of Southern California, died of a heart attack Saturday at a hospital in San Francisco, according to his wife of 53 years, Sheila Starr ... Arnold Schwarzenegger ... 3, 1940, in San Francisco....

City touts first completed development at ambitious Station Center project

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 15 Jan 2017

Anthony Ferro first crossed the Atlantic and then much of America, working as a miner and a grocer before helping launch Western Macaroni Manufacturing Co. at 244 S. 500 West. He soldiered on after one devastating fire reduced the place to ashes in 1909 and another in 1921 to become known as the “Pasta King” of the Intermountain West, credited for the region’s early love of spaghetti. But after a third major blaze in 1940, he was cooked....

5 Hawaii specimens added to Big Tree list

Edit Star Advertiser 15 Jan 2017

To be named a Big Tree is to be the largest known tree of a species in the United States ... Across the U.S., there are more than 700 specimens on American Forests’ Big Tree register ... All but two of the dozen Hawaii champions reside on the Big Island ... The purpose of the Big Tree program, created by American Forests in 1940, is to raise awareness about the importance of healthy trees and forests ... ....

Evening whisky key to long-running life, says oldest British Olympian at 100

Edit Belfast Telegraph 15 Jan 2017

A whisky every evening is the key to a long life, according to Britain's oldest living Olympian who is celebrating his 100th birthday ... Independent.ie ... Go To ... "I spent six years in the service and I had done very little training and I'd missed 1940 and 1944 where I might well have got a medal or something like that in those two years but Hitler deprived me of those so I went and bombed them instead." ... His wife Sheena, 87, said ... ....

Thomas Suddes commentary: Many Trump voters stand to lose in Obamacare repeal

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 15 Jan 2017

If the Affordable Care Act’s repeal imperils Ohio’s Medicaid expansion, that’ll hurt some of the very counties that supported Donald Trump in November ... As of last month, almost 688,000 Ohioans had enrolled in Medicaid expansion ... Until Gov. John R ... Sen ... House will do the same ... On Jan ... H.H., who died in 1940, was a member of Ohio Progressives’ State Executive Committee and one of the party’s “principal financial backers,” historian Hoyt L ... ....

Ferdi Kübler obituary

Edit The Guardian 15 Jan 2017

Swiss cyclist who was one of the great postwar champions of his sport and won the Tour de France in 1950 ... He repeated this double in 1952 ... “Ferdi is too old. Ferdi is hurting ... They were an impoverished farming family and Ferdi ran away from home to find a job as a baker’s delivery boy, riding more than 50 miles a day before becoming a professional cyclist in 1940 – against the advice of his father – in order to support the family ... ....

Trump threatens BMW with border tax on cars built in Mexico

Edit AOL 15 Jan 2017

BERLIN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump has warned the United States will impose a border tax of 35 percent on cars that German carmaker BMW plans to build at a new plant in Mexico and export to the U.S. market ... 14 PHOTOS. BMW vehicles through the years. See Gallery ... 20-22 ... (GERMANY OUT) Hoppe, Marianne - Actress, Germany *26.04.1909-23.10.2002+ - full-figure portrait, with a car - around 1940 - Photographer ... Up Next ... of ... ....

The 'Kipper' and the raising of the Olive Green, on this day back then

Edit The Times of India 15 Jan 2017

Guarding our borders, fending off extremists, lending a helping hand at times of distress in the mainland, the men in Olive Green - the Indian Army - are a special lot remembered with gratitude ... Raised during the period of Quit India Movement in 1942, it was among 10 other Rajput Battalions that were raised following the outbreak of World War II between 1940 to 1943 ... And Kipper's battalion continues to crack on, just as the Army does....

Wild populism has a long history in US politics, but Trump is surely unique

Edit The Observer 15 Jan 2017

In the run-up to the US presidential election, pundits proclaimed that the outcome would be “historic” ... Instead, Washington DC now prepares for the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump ... Trump may yet become a popular leader ... That dream can’t be fulfilled if economic growth creeps along at the anaemic pace of the past decade and working-age men continue to have a lower labour participation rate than they did in 1940....

South African Open Winners and History

Edit Golf Blogger 15 Jan 2017

The South African Open is one of the oldest golf championships, dating to 1903. The US Open is eight years older; the Canadian just one year younger. The South African Open is the flagship event of the Sunshine Tour, and has been co-sanctioned by the European Tour since 1997 ... There is an argument to be made that the South African Open predates its official 1903 start ... In 1908, it expanded to 72 holes ... 1940 Bobby Locke (5)South Africa 293....

Out of the basement

Edit Arkansas Online 15 Jan 2017

Robbie Robertson is having a moment ... Not coincidentally, the book concludes shortly after The Band's farewell concert, The Last Waltz, a Thanksgiving Day show held at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Nov ... 27. (Tickets are $5 ... They first came together as the backup group for Huntsville-born Ronnie Hawkins (cousin to Dale), who took Helm (born in Marvell, 1940; no hospital in Turkey Scratch) with him to Toronto ... .. ......

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less people get struck by lightning since 1940 say what why ? pet peeves man .

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The Milky Way (1940)

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Basque Country - Fiestas de San Juan en Hernani,1940-50

less people get struck by lightning since 1940 say what why ? pet peeves man .

Моя любовь - 1940 Лирическая комедия СССР

Rebecca 1940 Ελληνικοι υποτιτλοι

Little Men (1940) JACKIE OAKIE

El hijo de Montecristo 1940 español

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (Hans Moser) (1940) (Komödie)

The Milky Way (1940)

1940: Fdr, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler The Election Amid the Storm

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign Ultimat Sedan 1940 #7

Basque Country - Fiestas de San Juan en Hernani,1940-50

less people get struck by lightning since 1940 say what why ? pet peeves man .

Моя любовь - 1940 Лирическая комедия СССР

Rebecca 1940 Ελληνικοι υποτιτλοι

Little Men (1940) JACKIE OAKIE

El hijo de Montecristo 1940 español

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (Hans Moser) (1940) (Komödie)

The Milky Way (1940)

1940: Fdr, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler The Election Amid the Storm

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign Ultimat Sedan 1940 #7

Basque Country - Fiestas de San Juan en Hernani,1940-50

less people get struck by lightning since 1940 say what why ? pet peeves man .

Моя любовь - 1940 Лирическая комедия СССР

Rebecca 1940 Ελληνικοι υποτιτλοι

Little Men (1940) JACKIE OAKIE

El hijo de Montecristo 1940 español

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (Hans Moser) (1940) (Komödie)

The Milky Way (1940)

1940: Fdr, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler The Election Amid the Storm

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign Ultimat Sedan 1940 #7

Basque Country - Fiestas de San Juan en Hernani,1940-50

less people get struck by lightning since 1940 say...

Моя любовь - 1940 Лирическая комедия СССР...

Rebecca 1940 Ελληνικοι υποτιτλοι...

Little Men (1940) JACKIE OAKIE...

El hijo de Montecristo 1940 español...

Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (Hans Moser) (1940) (Ko...

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