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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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The Headlines
Illness Claims a Firefighter Whose Awakening Made Headlines
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Check on It
Beyoncé featuring Slim Thug
#1 at the box office
Madea's Family Reunion
$30,030,661
The must-have
Nintendo Wii
On This Day
At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.
Wikipedia →The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- George Washington (1732)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)
- Heinrich Hertz (1857)
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857)
- Drew Barrymore (1975)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
sketchypeepsnewbie
Text Speak
brblolomgrofltmi
Emo
rawrsqueescene
Reality Tv
you're firedthe tribe has spoken
Tech Check
Twitter, Nintendo Wii & AWS (Cloud Computing).
Cost of Living (2005)
Loaf of Bread
$1.12
Gallon of Gas
$2.27
Average Home
$240,900
New Car
$24,350
Time Elapsed
7,408 days ago
(20 years, 108 days)