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from Anglican Journal
The name of St. Nicholas is commonly associated with the Christmas season, but popular imagination is likely to picture him less as a saint wearing bishop’s robes and more as a plump, jolly man in a bright red suit. Santa Claus is commonly known as “old Saint Nick,” and the modern idea of him was influenced in part by the legendary figure of St. Nicholas. But in Christian denominations around the world, Nicholas of Myra remains one of the most widely venerated saints, known as the patron saint of sailors, merchants, students and children, among other groups.
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from BBC News (UK)
Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish.
The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands, where it was sunk by the British navy 105 years ago. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee's East Asia Squadron. It was sunk on 8 December 1914 with more than 800 men on board, including Vice-Adm von Spee himself.
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from The Guardian (UK)
Almost 800 libraries have closed since the Conservative-Lib Dem government implemented austerity in 2010, new figures reveal. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy’s (Cipfa) annual survey of the UK’s libraries, excluding Northern Ireland, shows there are 3,583 library branches still open in the UK – 35 fewer than last year. Since 2010, 773 have closed.
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from Scientific American
There’s a favorite argument among doubters of mainstream climate science: Climate models overestimate the rate at which the Earth is warming. That claim surfaces time and again and is frequently based on single examples of uncertainty or cherry-picked data. Various studies have gone back and closely examined individual climate models in recent years and have generally found that they’re working pretty well. A study released yesterday has taken the exercise to the next level. The research takes a comprehensive look at all the global climate models published from the 1970s to 2007, including the models used in the first three reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Project in Victoria's Old Town divides heritage community
A controversial plan to knock down all but three walls of two late 19th-century buildings in downtown Victoria has divided the city’s heritage community. Heritage advocates and developers are lining up on both sides of the debate over the future of the Duck’s Building and the adjacent Duck’s Carriage Factory, also known as the Canada Hotel, at Broad and Johnson streets.
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Bernie Sanders Says Internet Service Should be a Human Right
The Vermont senator and presidential candidate proposed a $150 billion plan to expand broadband, including regulating rates for internet service.
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from Times Colonist
Media/News Company
Media/News Company
Project in Victoria's Old Town divides heritage community
A controversial plan to knock down all but three walls of two late 19th-century buildings in downtown Victoria has divided the city’s heritage community. Heritage advocates and developers are lining up on both sides of the debate over the future of the Duck’s Building and the adjacent Duck’s Carriage Factory, also known as the Canada Hotel, at Broad and Johnson streets.
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from WIRED Media/News Company
Bernie Sanders Says Internet Service Should be a Human Right
The Vermont senator and presidential candidate proposed a $150 billion plan to expand broadband, including regulating rates for internet service.
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