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Many primitive peoples believed that by eating an animal they could get some of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, for example, that eating deer would make them run as fast as the deer. Some savage tribes believed that ea
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By David Byrd Washington 12 January 2006 2006 Winter Olympics US Postage Stamp The U.S. Postal Service has dedicated a new stamp to commemorate next month's Olympics in a ceremony in Colorado Springs,
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Ouattara Moves to Restore Security to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is moving to restore security in Ivory Coast one week after his country's political crisis ended with the arrest of former president Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Gbagbo held on to p
Thursday, March 17, is Saint Patrick's Day, a time when native-born Irish and Irish-Americans will parade and pipe their way up Manhattan's famed Fifth Avenue. The 2011 event, which is expected to include well over 150,000 thousand marchers, will be
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Thousands protested in the Sudanese capital Khartoum after the announcement that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the country's president. Security has been beefed up in Khartoum and in Darfur as the country waits to
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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 13 December 2006 Heads of state and other representatives from 11 African countries are gathering in Kenya's capital this week for their Great Lakes conference. The leaders are expected to sign a pact that sets out plans to