Category Archives: Celebrate

Mardi Gras beyond bare breasts

By doris | Published: February 21, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — If you’ve never been to Mardi Gras, you may think it’s all about beads for boobs. That’s pretty much what artist Cree McCree expected. But that was before the Crescent City transplant actually experienced it, in true New Orleans style. “I was completely seduced by the [...]

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Americans honor MLK with service — and more protests

By doris | Published: January 17, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com Americans honored Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a traditional day of service as well as a new wave of economic injustice protests by Occupy Wall Street. On the first King holiday since the now-global Occupy movement launched in New York City in September, the reignited debate over inequality drew [...]

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NYC, world ring in 2012, bid adieu to a tough year

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded festivities and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012. From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year [...]

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9 odd New Year’s Eve ball drops

By doris | Published: December 31, 2011

Full Story at Itineraries.msnbc.msn.com When it comes to celebrating New Year’s Eve with the kids, family-friendly events may be a little difficult to come by during a celebration that seems to revolve around champagne. Boston led the way for First Night celebrations with the very first First Night held in 1976. The New Year’s Eve [...]

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‘What’s Christmas without chopsticks?’ How other faiths celebrate December 25th

By doris | Published: December 25, 2011

Full Story at religion.blogs.CNN.com (CNN) – Two days before Christmas, Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive director at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, preached about Jesus at Friday prayers. “We live in a country with a majority of Christians, where Christmas is a major holiday… It’s a reminder we do believe in Jesus. Jesus’ position [...]

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Lost postcard reunites two friends after 24 years

By doris | Published: April 22, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com Joanna Reyes was living in uptown Manhattan in February when she came upon a postcard tucked into a pile of junk mail. “My dear friend. The thought of you inspired me to write,” the note, in flowing cursive, opened. “Dear, how are you doing? The countryside is looking like spring, the [...]

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18 days of protest culminate in Mubarak’s ouster

By doris | Published: February 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down Friday and handed over power to the military, his nearly three decades of iron rule ended by a groundswell of popular protests that began January 25. In a somber one-minute announcement on state television, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced Mubarak’s resignation [...]

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Lucky! Woman has 1/11/11 baby at 11:11 a.m.

By doris | Published: January 12, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com MERIDIAN, Idaho — Tyler Ashton Marx’s lucky number is going to be one, or 11, or maybe both. The son of Jared and Leslie Marx was born at 11:11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2011, at St. Luke’s Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, Idaho. Jared Marx is serving in Iraq and watched [...]

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Winning the lottery: Does it guarantee happiness?

By doris | Published: January 9, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — She was a mother of three living in a small apartment and working four jobs. And then, as if in a fairy tale, she won her state’s lottery last year. But the story doesn’t have the happy ending you might expect. She didn’t do anything overly extravagant after the [...]

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What’s with the donkey in the parking lot?

By doris | Published: December 25, 2010

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com t was a brisk December night, and Little Bit, a pregnant Sicilian miniature donkey, was munching hay as little children poked and pet her. She looked like she could go into labor at any moment there in the parking lot, which an Alexandria, Virginia, church was using for a live nativity [...]

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‘Strippermobile’ delivers Christmas donations

By doris | Published: December 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com LAS VEGAS — The “strippermobile” has made another run in Las Vegas, this time with properly dressed Santa’s helpers riding for a good cause. A year after agreeing to stop a promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers in a truck with clear plastic sides, a company that owns several Las [...]

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Teen wins Soap Box Derby with late sister’s car

By doris | Published: July 25, 2010

Full Story at nbcsports.msnbc.com AKRON, Ohio – Real life beat Hollywood to the finish line at the 73rd Annual All-American Soap Box Derby on Saturday. With actor-director Corbin Bernsen filming the movie “Hill 25,” based on the Soap Box Derby, 14-year-old Sean Brown rolled to victory in the Rally Super Stock Division in a way [...]

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Ohio girl top speller with ‘stromuhr’

By doris | Published: June 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Who says Cleveland can’t win a championship? The long-suffering sports city — which can’t seem to win a trophy on a court or a field — captured one in a hotel ballroom Friday night when 14-year-old Anamika Veeramani took first prize at the 83rd Scripps National Spelling Bee. “Go [...]

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At Age 95, Woman Finally Gets High School Diploma

By doris | Published: May 26, 2010

Full Story at happynews.com There was a bit more pomp and considerably more circumstance than usual at the Falkville High School graduation ceremonies Monday night. Marching alongside the fresh-faced Alabama seniors ready to make their way in the world was 95-year-old Earlene Harvey-Morris, whose own dreams of a diploma were snatched away from her 77 [...]

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Lady Liberty’s Crown Reopens

By doris | Published: July 5, 2009

Full Story at CBS News (AP) The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty’s crown in nearly eight years made the arduous climb Saturday on an Independence Day journey laden with symbolism of freedom, national pride – and for one couple, romance. Aaron Weisinger, 26, got down on one knee on the crown’s small [...]

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SD lottery winner ‘will not squander’ $232M prize

By doris | Published: June 6, 2009

Full Story At News.yahoo.com PIERRE, S.D. – It has the makings of a Hollywood script: A young rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of the nation claims one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history — $232 million — after buying the ticket in a town [...]

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Troops overseas get in on Super Bowl action

By doris | Published: January 31, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Ready for your Super Bowl party? Sure, you have drinks, hot wings, maybe even a favorite jersey. But do you have an M-16, a Kevlar helmet and body armor?Pittsburgh Steelers fan Sheresa Coleman will watch the Super Bowl from the USS Mahan in the Gulf of Aden. Pittsburgh [...]

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Clintons to ring in the New Year in Times Square

By doris | Published: December 31, 2008

Full Story At CNN.com CNN) – Bill and Hillary Clinton will celebrate the end of the year in the heart of a city just as happy as they are to see the tail end of 2008, joining New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to watch the crystal ball drop in Times Square tonight.

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