Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, literally “Christ’s mass”) is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, celebrated generally on December 25 as a religious and cultural holiday by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve […]
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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War; President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in […]
Continue ReadingNASA’s Final Space Shuttle Mission Comes To An End
On this day in 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completes its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the program’s 30-year history, its five orbiters—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—carried more than 350 people into space and flew more than 500 million miles, and shuttle crews […]
Continue ReadingCasey Anthony Released From Prison
On this day in 2011, Casey Anthony is released from jail in Orlando, Florida, 12 days after being acquitted on charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. The Casey Anthony trial riveted Americans, many of whom were stunned when a jury found the 25-year-old not guilty in her young daughter’s death. Caylee Marie Anthony […]
Continue ReadingNotorious Boston Mobster Whitey Bulger Is Arrested
On this day in 2011, after 16 years on the run from law enforcement, James “Whitey” Bulger, a violent Boston mob boss wanted for 19 murders, is arrested in Santa Monica, California. The 81-year-old Bulger, one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives, was arrested with his longtime companion, 60-year-old Catherine Greig, who fled Massachusetts […]
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Sorry Is all that you can’t say Years gone by and still Words don’t come easily Like sorry, like sorry Forgive me Is all that you can’t say Years gone by and still Words don’t come easily Like forgive me, forgive me But you can say baby Baby can I hold you tonight Maybe if […]
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I’m down a one-way streetWith a one-night stand, With a one track mindOut in no-man´s land(The punishment sometimes don´t seem to fit the crime) Yeah there´s a hole in my soulBut one thing I´ve learnedFor every love letter writtenThere´s another burned(So you tell me how it´s gonna be this time) Is it over, Is it […]
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What ya gonna do when the angels comeGet movin’, yeah movin’I’m gonna get your kicks from the 911It’s movin’, so soothin’ Your passion to be is just looking to feed your own fancyThe blind side of you is a bad dream come true that you can’t see Chorus:From an angel’s eyeKiss your life goodbyeFrom an […]
Continue ReadingOsama Bin Laden Killed By U.S. Forces
On this day in 2011, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly […]
Continue ReadingBritain’s Prince William Weds Kate Middleton
On this day in 2011, Great Britain’s Prince William marries his longtime girlfriend Catherine Elizabeth “Kate” Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London. Some 1,900 guests attended the ceremony, while another 1 million spectators lined the streets of London and an estimated 2 billion people around the world watched on television. The 29-year-old bride and 28-year-old […]
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