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Posted: May 25th, 2015, 6:35pm UTC
The year was 1958. ...
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Posted: November 9th, 2013, 12:35am UTC
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Posted: May 25th, 2013, 9:34pm UTC
Trans-Jordan Emir Becomes King in Setting of Arabian Pageantry
By Gene Currivan
Amman, Trans-Jordan, May 25- The emirate of Trans-Jordan became a kingdom ...
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Posted: May 23rd, 2013, 9:40am UTC
I was so pleased to see those brave Jordanians (in the clip below) beating the shit out of this Iraqi employee at the embassy. I was also pleased to see a brave ...
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Posted: November 10th, 2012, 3:51am UTC
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Posted: September 9th, 2012, 7:00am UTC
As The Abdoun Bridge was being constructed, many equated it with giant bridges in the West, such as the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. It was the country's ...
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Posted: January 5th, 2012, 4:36pm UTC
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Posted: November 16th, 2011, 12:08pm UTC
King Abdullah suggested today, very clearly, that Bashar Al-Assad should step down.
This is huge, unprecedented, and surprising, for two reasons, two very good reasons, in ...
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Posted: November 9th, 2011, 11:42am UTC
Ronald Reagan was the US president between 1981 to 1989. After the end of his term, in 1994, he announced that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. However there were ...
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Posted: October 16th, 2011, 11:54pm UTC
Warning before watching this video: Don't watch if you're black, Paraguayan, or a Boca fan.
Basically this man is very upset watching his team, River Plate, getting relegated for ...
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Posted: October 13th, 2011, 9:59pm UTC
Here's the Oath of Allegiance to become a US citizen that immigrants repeat on the day they want to become US citizen: " I hereby renounce under oath ...
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Posted: October 8th, 2011, 8:11am UTC
Six years ago I made a brief entry about Milad Abbassi, the best goalkeeper in Jordan's history, and the goalkeeper of the national team for nearly 15 ...
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Posted: August 9th, 2011, 11:15pm UTC
No I didn't just fly there, but an actual hareega was intentionally started in London.There are many answers to why these nasty riots have started. My feeling is that some ...
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Posted: August 4th, 2011, 11:40am UTC
Saddam HussainRemoved from power through an obscene war, declared for many wrong reasons, based on several lies and bad intelligence, even by the accounts ...
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Posted: August 1st, 2011, 9:28am UTC
I'm not a movie critic or movie expert, but here's a quick movie review of movies I have seen recently. Some are new, some are ...
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Posted: July 30th, 2011, 10:32am UTC
Norway buried the victims of the massacre that took place last week in Oslo. The first funerals for the 76 people started taking place yesterday.
The ...
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Posted: July 27th, 2011, 11:36am UTC
I had a patient in clinic with a fever, she goes, "I traveled to so many places last year and got very sick: Angola, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, South ...
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Posted: July 20th, 2011, 2:02pm UTC
Armored cars moved throughout Amman streets at dawn Tuesday with loud-speakers blaring, "Remain in your houses".The Jordanian capital was under strict military control in ...
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Posted: July 13th, 2011, 10:59am UTC
"A doctor in America is killing his patients" is all what I remember from watching the news on Jordan TV sometime in the early 1990s. It was ...
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Posted: April 23rd, 2011, 7:23am UTC
قبل حوالي عشرة سنوات كنت في دمشق أغزدر في السوق عندما وقع نظري على رجل ستيني جالسا على الرصيف ومحاطاً من الجهات الأربعة وظهره وقدميه ...
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Posted: March 31st, 2011, 2:06pm UTC
Today was celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Land Day.A day that used to matterLike the land itself, it's all long gone...
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Posted: March 8th, 2011, 12:38pm UTC
The Arab revolution did happen, and it means one thing. Arabs hate dictators. Arabs hate leaders who stick to their throne for decades and refuse to give ...
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Posted: March 3rd, 2011, 2:49pm UTC
Apparently this Canadian reporter, Barry Callaghan, was in Amman when Black September broke in 1970. Thanks to youtube I was able to find this rare clip that I never thought ...
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Posted: February 21st, 2011, 9:01am UTC
My name there is Hareega_Blog
or Reega Reega Hareega
apparently someone else took hareega
nothing made me wanna join ...
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Posted: February 19th, 2011, 5:39am UTC
Muammar Qaddafi is known to be the joke of the Arab world. Just type his name on youtube and you'll get an endless number of some hilarious ...
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Posted: February 12th, 2011, 12:58am UTC
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Posted: February 5th, 2011, 5:04am UTC
First, some people in South Dakota are asking me if my family is safe. For them Jordan is Egypt is Yemen is Pakistan. It's the same country. ...
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Posted: January 25th, 2011, 2:16pm UTC
I watched the clip of a Jordanian teacher terrorizing a 1st-grade student in a public school. It was painful to see a young kid being humiliated, but it was ...
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Posted: January 14th, 2011, 11:47pm UTC
Here's another one of these nice old clips, this one is a short documentary about late King Hussein, including interviews with him and Queen Mona around 1971. I believe this ...
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Posted: January 14th, 2011, 2:59pm UTC
from April, 1955
This is truly incredible!!
Click on the picture and it will take you to the clip
ROYAL WEDDING<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p>...
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Posted: January 2nd, 2011, 11:51am UTC
This segment shows some rare videos that attract very few youtube viewers but I think are valuable enough to be seen.
Here is the coronation of King Talal in ...
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Posted: January 2nd, 2011, 10:20am UTC
5- Inside Job: Insightful. The best documentary of the year. It's good enough to embarrass the president of the United States.
4- Inception: a wonderful use ...
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Posted: December 30th, 2010, 12:43pm UTC
This isn't just a picture of a crazy man taking off his shirt. This is not just a picture of someone who did something huge. This picture is so ...
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Posted: December 26th, 2010, 12:23pm UTC
If Jesus was to be born today, his parents won't be allowed to get to a hospital and Virgin Mary would have to go into labor at ...
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Posted: December 22nd, 2010, 11:56am UTC
In the last decade, there has been a very rapid emergence of low-cost airlines in Europe. These airlines offer much better prices but the service provided on ...
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Posted: December 10th, 2010, 11:56am UTC
Whenever there is drought in Jordan, people pray for rain. Praying for rain in Jordan is like praying for God to cure your cancer after it had ...
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Posted: December 7th, 2010, 12:02am UTC
If world leaders can come together to fight one thing, it's the truth...
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Posted: November 24th, 2010, 4:24pm UTC
This is not a movie review, it's only an opinion
127 hours is one wonderful movie, a masterpiece in my opinion
except for the ...
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Posted: November 19th, 2010, 3:18pm UTC
Watch the real world champions, not the world cup champions
enjoy the magic
enjoy football...
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Posted: November 9th, 2010, 12:39pm UTC
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Posted: November 7th, 2010, 4:44am UTC
Last week, militants linked to Al-Qaeda took over a church in Baghdad and killed 58 people. Following the attacks , Al-Qaeda threatened to attack Christians ...
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Posted: September 5th, 2010, 9:05pm UTC
When it comes to music, the best is not usually the most popular. The Rolling Stones published their "Best 100 Beatles Songs" special edition. The number one spot belonged to ...
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Posted: August 31st, 2010, 11:53am UTC
The wrong-est and funniest status yesterday, by comedian Doug Stanhope "I have a very funny image in my head of being on ChatRoulette and stumbling upon the 33 trapped ...
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Posted: August 29th, 2010, 11:54pm UTC
In my opinion, it sounds a little harsh, mainly in suggesting that the poor in Jordan deserve what they're going through.
On the other side, when ...
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Posted: August 26th, 2010, 10:55am UTC
This is Khaled Boulahrouz (you can't see him in this short clip), shooting a ball from the other side of the field, which hit the German reporter Jessica Kastrop right ...
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Posted: August 25th, 2010, 2:44pm UTC
..... عزيزي الملكلأ عم بمزحوحياة الله عم بمزح...
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Posted: August 24th, 2010, 10:59am UTC
It's been a while since my clothes were soaked with other patients' blood, especially that I haven't performed a lot of medical procedures recently.
But there's ...
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Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 10:44pm UTC
People underestimate the importance of discussions with other humans. These tons of meetings you go to everyday involve discussions about things that matter. A ...
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Posted: August 8th, 2010, 5:54am UTC
بلا توجيهي بلا توجيهك.... القاري والخاري واحدمع تحياتي...
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Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 3:54pm UTC
Mysterious. Exciting. Breath-taking. It doesn't tell you how the story will begin and doesn't give you an idea how will it end. It just impresses you enough to get you ...
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Posted: July 31st, 2010, 10:10am UTC
The coach of FC Barcelona, Josep Guardiola, who led Barcelona in 2009 into becoming the first club ever to win 6 out of 6 championships in one ...
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Posted: July 25th, 2010, 5:37am UTC
Call me old-fashioned , but I still enjoy reading paper magazines rather than electronic ones, just like I love holding a real book rather than ...
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Posted: July 22nd, 2010, 1:56pm UTC
This is why punctuation and pauses are extremely important while reading the news.
This news anchor was telling listeners that his co-anchor was off that day, then proceeded to ...
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Posted: July 19th, 2010, 9:07pm UTC
Taxicab from the hotel to the airport.... 19 dollars
Coffee at the airport..... 4 dollars
Flight from Las Vegas to Minneapolis...... 206 dollars...
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 3:03am UTC
Casillas' Interview with His Girlfriend
Casillas, Spain's captain and goalkeeper, did an interview with a sports reporter who happened to be his girlfriend right after the ...
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Posted: July 12th, 2010, 11:32am UTC
The final game of the world cup was played today, and sure on paper they deserved it perfectly, Spain winning the last 32 of their 34 matches ...
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Posted: July 2nd, 2010, 1:42am UTC
Congratulations for Brasil for making it to the quarter-finals in this world cup, I was not expecting it and they indeed impressed us with average victories against the Ivory ...
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Posted: June 30th, 2010, 3:59pm UTC
Fabio Capello almost getting a heart attack while yelling at his English players to pass the ball!
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Eboue, the Ivory Coast ...
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Posted: June 27th, 2010, 6:31am UTC
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In case you haven't, make sure you see this too, Maxi 2006
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Posted: June 25th, 2010, 3:25pm UTC
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Posted: June 24th, 2010, 2:16pm UTC
That was about to become the best 0-0 game in the World Cup.
Even though Algeria had good chances, but they lacked a striker. They failed to score in ...
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Posted: June 23rd, 2010, 12:10pm UTC
* South Africa will go in history as the first country ever to host a world cup and fail to qualify past the first round. I don't ...
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Posted: June 17th, 2010, 1:03pm UTC
I was on the phone with a Paraguayan friend who was on his way to South Africa to watch the World Cup.
"When are you leaving?""Today, I'll fly from ...
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Posted: June 13th, 2010, 10:43pm UTC
-You cannot judge how the World Cup will end just from its beginning. A lot of teams that won the world cup lost their opening games or ...
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Posted: June 12th, 2010, 4:40pm UTC
It won't be a problem waiting for 4 more years, but it would be wonderful to get it now, with the greatest human being on the face of the planet ...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 2:01pm UTC
1990: Claudio Caniggia, the great Argentinian striker, was running at a speed of a Toyota with faulty breaks towards Cameron's goal. One Cameronian guy tackled him a little, another one ...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 11:07am UTC
The British invented football, but their contribution to the game stopped there. They refused to participate in the World Cup up until 1950, only to get defeated ...
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Posted: June 10th, 2010, 10:56am UTC
There are a lot of clips on youtube on the best goals ever scored in the World Cup. I think this list is the best one, maybe you won't agree ...
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Posted: June 9th, 2010, 11:35pm UTC
It's time for Argentina......
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Posted: June 9th, 2010, 11:45am UTC
Spain currently has one of the strongest teams in the world. They're ranked # 2 in the FIFA rankings behind Brasil. Given their magnificent performance in Euro ...
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Posted: June 9th, 2010, 11:05am UTC
Algeria fought its way, literally, to this World Cup after a major challenge with the Egyptians. Tension rose between both countries to a shamefully disgusting level, and ...
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Posted: June 9th, 2010, 9:50am UTC
Shakira...... plusFootball....plusMessi......plusMaradona....plusDancing, Music, Drums= Perfect...
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Posted: June 8th, 2010, 11:24am UTC
The host team always makes it past the first round, and this world cup will not be an exception. South Africa will make it to the second ...
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Posted: June 8th, 2010, 10:52am UTC
Germany is a team that doesn't bother to play football unless it matters. It's the exact opposite of other teams like Spain and the Netherlands that have ...
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Posted: June 7th, 2010, 10:18am UTC
I am interrupting my mind-blowing preview of the World Cup to remember 1967. Funny how just by mentioning 1967, a year that witnessed many world events, the only thing that ...
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Posted: June 7th, 2010, 9:56am UTC
These islands that look like a couple of nuts situated at the base of the earth (depending on which map you're looking at) barely have any football ...
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Posted: June 7th, 2010, 9:29am UTC
Czechoslovakia was a powerful team, making it to the final match of the World Cup twice. In 1993 it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The ...
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Posted: June 6th, 2010, 10:38am UTC
Also known as the least deserved team to win a championship since they won the Euro 2004, Greece is hoping for a lot of luck and prayers ...
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Posted: June 4th, 2010, 2:15pm UTC
Switzerland is one of those countries that can be easily forgotten even when they play well. Their results in the 2006 were pretty decent, where they didn't ...
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Posted: June 4th, 2010, 11:21am UTC
Serbia was a complete disaster in the last cup. Not only did they lose their 3 games, but they lost to Argentina 0-6. Even when they were ...
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Posted: June 4th, 2010, 10:46am UTC
In my opinion, Nigeria produced the best African team to ever compete in a world cup, and that was the 1994 Yekini-Okocha-you name it team. They were ...
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Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 1:51pm UTC
Along with China, India, Russia and the US, Australia has been another proof that very large countries can easily suck at football. However the Australians made a ...
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Posted: June 2nd, 2010, 12:53pm UTC
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Posted: June 1st, 2010, 10:44am UTC
As my fan base of 10 people have noticed, I haven't been blogging lately. I got busy at work. However with the world cup coming, and with ...
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Posted: May 31st, 2010, 2:59pm UTC
Diego Armando Maradona, the genius of geniuses, has arrived with his jewels to South Africa. By jewels I'm not referring to his personal collection of cocaine but the talented bunch ...
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Posted: May 19th, 2010, 5:19am UTC
It was another travel clinic day when the young traveler to Chad and Niger walked in the clinic with his father to get his vaccines before his ...
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Posted: May 1st, 2010, 1:21pm UTC
This is Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge and a leader scientist in theoretical physics, quantum gravity, black holes and a lot of scientific ...
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Posted: April 27th, 2010, 11:41am UTC
A huge 2.5 meter- snake has been around for years in a little Irbid town, scaring kids and their parents , sneaking quietly (like a snake) from one house to ...
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Posted: April 19th, 2010, 5:04pm UTC
رغم سفري الطويل جداً اليوم والارهاق والجتلغة مع اختلاف التوقيت إلا أنه يتوجب علي أن أقول مبروك للزعيم وفيصلي برازبلووووو هوو هااااي هووو .... بس ...
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Posted: April 14th, 2010, 6:23am UTC
It's something Israel might use to kill you if you peacefully protest building a wall on your land. The picture above is of 29-year old Basem Abu ...
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Posted: April 13th, 2010, 8:13am UTC
HM King Abdullah met Barack Obama yesterday. Both men agree that having "Hussain" as your middle name could be a honor in one country but a reason ...
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Posted: April 10th, 2010, 8:36am UTC
I don't think I or anyone else can tell you the exact story of what happened, especially that each side gives its own story.
But what we ...
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Posted: April 7th, 2010, 9:06am UTC
This is Rupert Murdoch, the founder of Fox News, on the cover of Hello! magazine.
Occasion: baptizing his 2 daughters near the baptism site in ...
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Posted: February 20th, 2010, 7:30am UTC
Ammann wins ski jumping gold for Switzerland
Congratulations! Click here for details...
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Posted: February 7th, 2010, 6:16am UTC
I stand behind this statement. Tawjihi is a series of exams designed by experts in education. The major drawback of these tests is that they examine the student's ability to ...
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Posted: February 6th, 2010, 10:40am UTC
December 31st (new year's eve)
my flight to Las Vegas scheduled at 1.30 pm
It was 11.00 am and I still had a few patients to ...
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Posted: January 29th, 2010, 10:22am UTC
I was hoping for Algeria to win, but Egypt deserved it
The worst excuse ever is that Algeria had 3 players sent off with a red ...
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Posted: January 28th, 2010, 10:05am UTC
I love Jordan but other bloggers have said it all. So here are my top #50 reasons why I love South Dakota.
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Posted: January 23rd, 2010, 11:39am UTC
Help those who don't know you, who won't recognize you, who don't look like you, and who
may not even thank you, for that is the true ...
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Posted: January 21st, 2010, 3:40pm UTC
If you think internet censorship did not exist in Jordan before "this law" was made, you don't know Jordan well.
If you think by cancelling this law ...