Series records favor CCHA teams in Frozen Four semifinal matchups

Monday, 28 March 2011

A pair of CCHA-WCHA matchups are in the works for the 2011 Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minn. And if history holds any weight, the CCHA teams have the advantage. Notre Dame and Minnesota-Duluth will play in one national semifinal on Thursday, April...
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Cherry Blossom Festival 2011 Kicks Off With Solemn Tribute To Japan Victims

Saturday, 26 March 2011

WASHINGTON -- The flowering trees that symbolize friendship between the United States and Japan are blooming for the 99th time in Washington in the wake of one of the world's worst natural disasters. Before the two-week National Cherry Blossom Festival...
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Mega Millions Winning Numbers: “LOST” Lotto Numbers Played Again?

What are the Mega Millions Winning Numbers from last night’s drawing? Did anyone win the $312 million dollar jackpot? And just out of curiosity, did anyone play the “LOST” numbers that won last time? In case you don’t remember, back in January, the...
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Susan B. Anthony, and a Brave Task to Help Liberate

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

American Minute with Bill Federer Susan B. Anthony, whose face is on a U.S. dollar coin and whose statue is in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, died MARCH 13, 1906. Raised a Quaker, her father owned a cotton mill and refused to buy cotton from farmers who...
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Derek Hough Is M.I.A. From DWTS, But Catch Him Tomorrow On GMA!

Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Did you catch the season 12 premiere of Dancing With The Stars tonight? This is the first season that I watched without a favorite…I’m keeping an open mind and hoping to see some new favorites step forward. And there was no elimination this week,...
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Big Love, American Style

Monday, 21 March 2011

Tonight is the series finale of Big Love, one of the key shows of what we might call the HBO interregnum — the period after the first generation of drama hits went away (it was a year after the end of Six Feet Under and a year before the end of The...
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Six Surprising Facts About St. Patrick's Day

Thursday, 17 March 2011

. St. Patrick's Day as a cultural holiday is an American invention -- the first St. Patrick's Day parade took place in the United States on March 17, 1762. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through -- where else? New York City....
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The History of Corned Beef and Cabbage

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

When Grover Cleveland took the Presidential Oath of Office in 1885, he was appalled to find that his rotund predecessor, the all but forgotten Chester A. Arthur, had transformed White House dining into an endless gastronomic banquet.  The new...
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Happy Pi Day, math lovers!.

Monday, 14 March 2011

It's 3.14, and that means it's time for the official Pi Day celebrations to begin.Get out your favorite circular objects, people, it’s Pi Day 2011! As the math and science enthusiasts among us already know, March 14 (i.e. 3/14) is official Pi Day —...
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When the "Fox News Babes" Met al-Jazeera

Friday, 11 March 2011

As a business major, I've always had a problem with the American cable network Fox News. On one hand, it's a master stroke of marketing in selling to a Middle American demographic; an odd mix of conservative righteousness combined with titillation...
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