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Ray Durham nicknamed The Sugarman, is a second baseman for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.
A two-time All-Star, Durham in his prime was one of the premier offensive catalysts in all of baseball, providing prototypical lead-off hitting with power. He is a 12-year major league veteran owning a .278 lifetime batting average with […]
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Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist.
He was most famous for his rendition of “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” sung in his distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice. He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs. He had no official middle […]
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BAE Systems plc is a British defence and aerospace company headquartered at Farnborough, UK, which has worldwide interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc.
BAE is the world’s third largest defence contractor and the largest in Europe. BAE was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £7.7 billion merger of two British […]
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The Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force from 34 nations authorized by the United Nations and led primarily by the United States in order to return Kuwait to the control of the Emir of Kuwait.
It began August 2, 1990 and officially ended November 30, 1995. The conflict developed […]
Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992.
She ultimately received five additional death sentences. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a […]
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Ann Elizabeth Hodges of Sylacauga, Alabama is the only person of record to have been hit by a meteorite. On November 30, 1954, she was napping on her living room couch when a grapefruit-sized meteoroid crashed through the roof of her house. It bounced off her large wooden console radio, destroying it, and struck her […]
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Barbados is situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. It gained its independence from the United Kingdom on November 30, 1966.
At roughly 13° North of the equator and 59° West of the prime meridian, the country lies in the southern Caribbean region, where its considered […]
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British Caledonian came into being in November 30, 1970 when the Scottish charter airline Caledonian Airways, at the time Britain’s second-largest, wholly privately owned, Independent airline, took over British United Airways, then the largest Independent British airline as well as the UK’s leading Independent scheduled carrier.
The BUA takeover enabled Caledonian to realise its long-held ambition […]
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Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil is an American oil & gas corporation and a direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil company. Formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil, ExxonMobil is the world’s largest company by revenue, at $404.5 billion for the fiscal year of 2007.
It is also the […]
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The Battle of Tassafaronga was a nighttime naval battle that took place November 30, 1942 between United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy warships during the Guadalcanal campaign. The battle took place in Ironbottom Sound near the Tassafaronga area on Guadalcanal.
In the battle, a US warship force of five cruisers and four destroyers under the […]
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