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| Boy, 5, could testify in trial |
| Prosecutors will ask a Superior Court judge to allow Jeffrey McGee's young son to testify against his father and re-enact how McGee allegedly stabbed the boy's mother to death in a Chelmsford apartment more than a year ago. |
| Read More...(Source: Chelmsford News - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:27:17 GMT) |
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| Sheehan leaves job as Westford's assistant town manager after five months |
| Andrew Sheehan resigned Tuesday from his position as assistant town manager after only five months on the job. |
| Read More...(Source: Chelmsford News - Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:12:44 GMT) |
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| Candidates take the floor in Chelmsford |
| The Chelmsford Business Association hosted a Candidates Night last night, featuring Board of Selectmen incumbent Patricia Wojtas and challengers Matthew Hanson and Jon Kurland; and School Committee incumbent Evelyn Thoren and challengers Janet Askenburg and Jack Wang. |
| Read More...(Source: Chelmsford News - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:54:06 GMT) |
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| Anti-40B group calls cease-fire in battle against Chelmsford |
| After more than a year of mass mailings that singled out town officials for ruining Chelmsford's character, the anti-40B group Slow Growth Initiative is calling a truce. |
| Read More...(Source: Chelmsford News - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:51:17 GMT) |
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| Hearing call for help on Chelmsford route, Sun carrier made some news of his own |
| Sun paperboy J.T. Carroll, with his mother, Alma, outside their Chelmsford home yesterday, has earned plenty of praise for helping an elderly woman who had fallen at her house last Friday. |
| Read More...(Source: Chelmsford News - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:54:08 GMT) |
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| Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (1890) |
| A leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s until 1957, Molotov rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin. He became prime minister in 1930 and later served as foreign minister. Though he first negotiated a treaty with Hitler's Germany—the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact—after the 1941 German invasion, he worked to strengthen Soviet ties with the West. Why is the Molotov cocktail, a makeshift bomb made of a breakable container filled with flammable liquid, named for him? Discuss |
| Read More...(Source: Today's Birthday - Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| Kenneth Grahame (1859) |
| Grahame was an English author best known for writing The Wind in the Willows, whose anthropomorphic animal characters—Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad—captivatingly combine human traits with authentic animal habits. Though a children's classic, it has been enjoyed by readers of all ages since its publication in 1908. In addition to writing, Grahame worked as a banker in London for some time. What happened to him when a man opened fire in his bank in 1903? |
| Read More...(Source: Today's Birthday - Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| Janet Guthrie (1938) |
| Before becoming the first woman to qualify for and compete in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, race car driver Janet Guthrie worked as an aerospace engineer. She took up racing in 1963, and by 1977, she had competed in two of racing's most prestigious events—the Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. Guthrie has since been inducted into both the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame and the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. What was her best finish in an IndyCar event? |
| Read More...(Source: Today's Birthday - Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| Rene Descartes |
| The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Discuss |
| Read More...(Source: Quote of the Day - Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| George Eliot |
| In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. |
| Read More...(Source: Quote of the Day - Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| George Eliot |
| Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. |
| Read More...(Source: Quote of the Day - Sun, 7 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| Aries Horoscope for March 09, 2010 |
| Deal with gossips as swiftly as you can -- most of them don't know what they're talking about, so it shouldn't matter at all.
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| Read More...(Source: Astrology.com Daily Overview Horoscopes - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:37:01 PDT) |
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| Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations Is Published (1776) |
| Published in 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and is considered the first modern work in the field of economics. In it, Smith postulates the theory of the division of labor and emphasizes that value arises from the labor expended in the process of production. What was Smith's concept of "the invisible hand"? Discuss |
| Read More...(Source: This Day in History - Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT) |
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| New 80s content! |
| Check it out:
A new 80s vid (which is actually not from, but all about the 80s) and en new gadget which you probably all had! (admit it!) |
| Read More...(Source: Squidoo: 80s: The Eighties - Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:04:55 -0600) |
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