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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
 Canada gave blacks the right to vote, 128 years before the U.S. did the same in 1965 — Oh, Canada! (1837)- Cleveland, Ohio set a record high temperature for March: 83ºF (1910) ... Is this evidence that anything can happen?
- The National Gallery of Art* was established by the U.S. Congress (1937)
- John D Rockefeller Jr. donated the NYC East River site to the United Nations (1947)
- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards performed as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys (1962)
*The National Gallery, in Washington. D.C., was the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937, the year of his death. The West Building, shown here, displays the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the western hemisphere. |
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Saturday, 24 March 2007 |
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 Canada rolled out a budget this week that includes $2 billion in new incentives for renewable fuels. Experts say if properly implemented, the program will lead to 20 new world-class biofuels facilities in Canada, create 14,000 new jobs in rural communities, and provide a new market for over 200 million bushels of Canadian grains and oilseeds.
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Read more... [Biofuels Get Big Boost in Canadian Budget]
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Friday, 23 March 2007 |
 As we alerted you last year, major Ivy league universities have begun offering lectures — and whole courses — on the Internet for free. It's called the OpenCourseWare movement and it's gaining momentum across the world. There's even a site now where you can browse a collection of online courses from schools like UC Berkeley, MIT, Yale, and Princeton — and click to hear university lectures by the likes of Microsoft's Bill Gates, all without paying a dollar in tuition... |
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Read more... [Free Online University Lectures Offer Eclectic Mix]
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 Take your family to an inspiring film -- for free!
$15 million in tickets are being given away in the U.S. to the March 30th nationwide re-release of the inspirational film adaptation of Dan Millman's perennial best-selling novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Universal Pictures teamed up with Best Buy to launch the innovative marketing scheme hoping to create enough interest in the film to carry it through the following weeks in April.
Best Buy has created a Web page to distribute 2 million free tickets good only for the weekend of March 30 - April 1... |
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Read more... [Free Movie Tickets for Re-Release of Peaceful Warrior]
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
 Thanks to a new university project, the sight of gulls or pelicans with fishing hooks in their mouths or fishing line wrapped around their legs will be less common on California beaches. Beginning this week, the California Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project at the University of California Davis is commencing a yearlong effort to remove discarded fishing hooks and slice tangled lines from pier pilings, and establish fishing-line recycling stations to make the coastal ocean safer for wildlife as well as people. |
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Read more... [Safety for Seagulls: Detangling California Fishing Piers]
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