Hey! I’m so very sorry I haven’t posted in quite a while. I haven’t forgotten you all at all. I want to assure you that from henceforth things will be different. That I promise. So once again, my name is Othniel Morkly sigining in. Hey! Take note of that name it’s one-in-a-million. Today, I have [...]

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FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 was a chess match between Classical World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE World Chess Champion Veselin Topalov. The match, which was won by Kramnik, determined, for the first time in 13 years, the undisputed World Chess Champion. The match was played between September 23 and October 13, 2006, in [...]

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The Pope Benedict XVI has invited Muslim envoys for talks, part of a diplomatic offensive to repair rifts caused by his recent remarks on Islam, a lecture that sparked days of sometimes violent protests in Muslim countries, prompting the pontiff to say at the weekend that he was “deeply sorry” for any offence and attributing Muslim [...]

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Microsoft is aiming to capitalise on the user-generated video phenomenon by launching an online service to compete with YouTube, Google and Yahoo. I wonder many times why can’t these Microsoft guys ever do anything unique and original for themselves? SoapBox as it is called will start testing today but will be officially launched in 6 [...]

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Egypt – Al-Qaida in Iraq and its allies warned Pope Benedict XVI today that he and the West were “doomed” and proclaimed that the holy war would continue until Islam dominates the world. The statement said that the Quran tells Muslims in many occasions that “jihad continues and should never stop until dooms day where this religion [...]

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Turkey’s ruling Islamic-rooted party joined a wave of criticism of Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, accusing him of trying to revive the spirit of the Crusades with remarks he made about Islam likening the pope to Hitler and Mussolini. Muslim leaders in the Middle East expressed dismay, and Pakistan’s parliament unanimously condemned him. The Vatican [...]

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Last Friday, astronomers at Caltech declared the discovery of a 10th or 9 thplanet. I don’t know which to choose, since Pluto has been demoted. The new celestial body, which the International Astronomical Union has dubbed 2003UB313, is larger than our solar system’s smallest planet, Pluto. After over a year of hanging in maybe-planet limbo, [...]

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On September 6, 2006, at 8:27 a.m. (Japan Standard Time), Princess Kiko gave birth to a baby boy, by Caesarean section. The child weighed 5 lbs 10 oz (2556 g) at birth. The child, who will not be named until a ceremony seven days after his birth, which will be next week Tuesday, is the [...]

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1887 – Marcus Garvey, Jamaican leader, Rastafari prophet. 1926 – Jiang Zemin, former President of the People’s Republic of China was born. 1945 – Indonesia proclaims itself independent from the Netherlands. 1960 – Gabon gained independence from France. 1943 – Robert De Niro, American actor was born. 1977 – Thierry Henry,  Arsenal skipper and French [...]

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Guess what? The Top 100 global brands for the year 2006 are out. The truth is every company wants its brand to get bigger. The hard part is balancing what the brand is with a vision of what it would like to be. Companies that score high can count on plenty of customer loyalty as [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I ‘d like to introduce you to the Zuleyka Rivera, Miss Universe 2006. The lithe 5-foot-9, 18-year-old Rivera was the youngest of the final five candidates which included Switzerland, Japan, Paraguay and the United States. Donald Trump was also there to grace the occasion on Sunday the 23rd of July. Rivera was [...]

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The emotions that had been trapped in Tiger Woods since he stood at his father’s grave two months ago, were let loose only after he tapped in his final putt to win the British Open. (July 23).   “I’m kind of one who bottles things up a little bit and moves on, tries to deal with [...]

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1938 – Janet Reno, former United States Attorney General, was born 1939 – John Negroponte, U.S. Director of National Intelligence, was born 1946 – Kenneth Starr, American lawyer and judge, was born 1969 – Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon 1970 – After 11 years [...]

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