Ozzy Osbourne’s personal possessions fetch $800,000 for charity

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Sunday, December 2, 2007 American heavy metal performer Ozzy Osbourne, who became famous as the lead vocalist for Black Sabbath and later as a solo act, has raised more than US$800,000 for The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program, founded by his spouse Sharon Osbourne at the Cedars Sinai Hospital, by auctioning off personal items. A number of the items that he auctioned off over the two day period have been seen on his reality TVContinue reading

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8 Ways To Live Longer

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Here’s An Opinion On: How Long Does It Take To Become An Xray Tech 1. Eat Less Food The first way to live longer is to eat less food. People eat for enjoyment so they try to stuff all of the food that they can into their belly. Find other ways to become fulfilled and happy. Studies with different animals showed that when they fed the animals less than they wanted to eat, they livedContinue reading

Kennedy Center names 2007 honors recipients

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Friday, September 14, 2007 The Kennedy Center announced that its 30th presentation of the Kennedy Center Honors would go to pianist Leon Fleisher, comedian Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, director Martin Scorsese and musician Brian Wilson. The Center was opened to the public in 1971 and was envisioned as part of the National Cultural Center Act, which mandated that the independent, privately-funded institution would present a wide variety of both classical and contemporary performances, commissionContinue reading

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Looted, possibly contaminated body parts transplanted into USA, Canadian patients

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Monday, March 20, 2006 Fears of contaminated bone and skin grafts are being felt by unsuspecting patients following the revelation that funeral homes may have been looting corpses. Janet Evans of Marion Ohio was told by her surgeon, “The bone grafts you got might have been contaminated”. She reacted with shock, “I was flabbergasted because I didn’t even know what he was talking about. I didn’t know I got a bone graft until I gotContinue reading

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What Types Of Tummy Tucks Are There

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Here’s An Opinion On: Builders Toowoomba By Mike Schlacter A complete tummy tuck is not done to help a person lose weight, rather it is meant to deal with any loose skin that comes from drastic weight loss, or occasionally after a women has had a baby. A tummy tuck is designed to take up any flabby skin and flatten the abdomen by tightening the muscles in the stomach, which strengthens the abdominal walls. OftenContinue reading

Wikinews 2014: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review

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Wednesday, December 24, 2014With the English-language Wikinews continuing to increase the amount of original content published, we take a look back at some of the eighty-plus original reports from our contributors during 2014. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_2014:_An_%27Original_reporting%27_year_in_review&oldid=4598651”

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U.S. automaker GM plans to close 1,100 dealerships

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Friday, May 15, 2009 American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) announced plans Friday to shut down about 1,100 of its dealerships, in an effort to evade bankruptcy and lower its expenditures. GM’s move comes a day after Chrysler, another U.S. car maker, released a list of 789 dealerships that it was closing. Unlike Chrylser, GM will not publicly announce the dealerships that it intends to shut down. Instead, dealerships whose franchises won’t be renewed afterContinue reading

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On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020

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Monday, November 2, 2020 The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two presidential debates, three candidates who did not participate in those debates give their final pleas to voters, and three politicalContinue reading

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A Trip To The Dentist Can Be Routine Or Even An Exercise In Vanity

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Here’s An Opinion On: Veneers For Celebrities New York Submitted by: Patrick Boswell Do you go for long periods of time without making a visit to your dentist? If you do then you should know that it is not serving your best interest in the long run to be playing an avoidance game with your oral hygiene. Many people shy away from the dentist because they have a fear of sitting back in the chair,Continue reading

Chilean President visits Pichilemu to inaugurate Agustín Ross Cultural Centre

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Wednesday, February 3, 2010 The Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, travelled to Pichilemu to inaugurate the Cultural Centre Agustín Ross last week, in the old Ross Casino, a National Monument since 1988, and the first casino in Chile. Bachelet passed by Cáhuil’s bridge, where she and her parents regularly went on holiday to, according the documentary Pichilemu: Así éramos ayer, así somos hoy (Pichilemu: That’s the way we were, that’s the way we are), which willContinue reading

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