Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of Baseball: Essays on the Pastime and Power at Home and Abroad." The courage and athletic ability ... Read more...
Normally when you hear a story about an athlete from the old days having lots of medical work done, it's a boxer or football player. But this surgery saga is about an NBA legend. "Earl The Pearl" Monroe, who starred in the backcourt with Walt "Clyde" Frazier on the New York Knicks, is undergo... Read more...
Michael Kors and Co. has just scored themselves quite a chunk of change. The fashion label has sold a minority stake in the brand to a group of investors for no less than $2.5 billion, reports to the New York Post. (If a minority stake is worth that much, what about the whole company? The mind re... Read more...
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30/04/2011,
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Citigroup (C.N), which got control of the world's fourth-largest record company EMI from British financier Guy Hands in February, plans to sell the company as a whole, the New York Post reported, citing sources. EMI Chief Executive Roger Faxon has been arguing for months that a breakup would hurt... Read more...
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26/10/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in *Blank Stare*,
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This has got to be a f*cking joke...Is this the end of the world that the mayans were talking about? And they wonder why the people start talking that illuminati sh*t... Wait...nevermind Dear Young Democratic Voters: Please ignore the coming electoral meltdown where your party loses control... Read more...
There's rags to riches and then there's rags to mega-riches. Two brothers from Hungary definitely fall into the second category. Until recently, Geza and Zslot Peladi lived in a cave near Budapest. Completely destitute, the two cave-brothers earned money by gathering scrap metal and selling candy... Read more...