Archive for the ‘United States’ Category
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Mass of Media: Sarah Palin
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. She was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in [...]
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Mass of Media: Financial crisis
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
A financial crisis happens when some financial institutions or assets suddenly lose a large part of their value. Many financial crises are banking panics, and many recessions coincided with these panics. Other situations that are often called financial crises include stock market crashes and the bursting of other financial bubbles, as well as international phenomena [...]
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Earthquake in Southern California
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
A moderate earthquake of 5.4 magnitude, centered 35 east of downtown Los Angeles, some minutes ago. No structural damage. Felt in Las Vegas and San Diego, says New York Times. The earthquake was strong enough to scare the people and to take some emergency measures.
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Mass of Media: Jenna Bush
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush (born November 25, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush and the fraternal twin of Barbara Pierce Bush. Jenna and Barbara are known as the First Twins both because they are the children of the U.S. President and because [...]
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Kosovo, the Pandora’s box
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, the states of the old USSR… almost all the European countries have provinces in the same situation with the Serbian province Kosovo. The European Union would be a solution. But the independence of the provinces is a solution too. I think that the Kosovo’s independence is less a result of [...]
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How much do you pay for an US spy satellite?
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
An US spy satellite is out of control and it will plunge to Earth in about a month. As of right now it is not possible to predict the place where the satellite is going to hit the Earth. It is possible to be an experimental imagery satellite built by Lockheed Martin and launched from [...]
