On Thursday, October 7, 1993, the U.S.S. Peleliu, a U.S. Navy Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship, was halfway through a week of training maneuvers some 50 miles out in the Pacific when a UH-1N Huey helicopter crashed around midnight, killing one passenger. The pilots and four other survivors were all rescued.
At about midnight, a Marine [...]

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In the beginning, it was just the pat the on the head and an occasional scratching behind the ears.  Rover tried to tell himself that it was normal for people to treat each other this way.  For his part, he gave a few low wags of his tail as a sign of mild appreciation.  So [...]

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The Birth of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel of Luke:
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.  And he came to her and [...]

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