The Netherlands wins Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Nov 23, 2009
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Ralf Mackenbach finished first with his self-penned song Click Clack, thanks to support from televoters and professional jury members.
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One Moment In Time
Jan 20, 2009
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He looks nervous. Chin up. Red tie. Barack. Then, the amicable, big smile of Joe Biden. Blue tie. Dick Cheney in a wheelchair. As CNN covers the soon-to-be ex-Vice President’s arrival at the Capitol, a woman is laughing hard in the background. Awkward. All those people in Washington. All those people watching on television. All [...]
Excellent coverage of a perfect landing on water
Jan 16, 2009
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A dramatic event that turned into an enormous relieve. Hours ago, a US Airways Airbus A320 plunged into the Hudson River, New York City. Within the hour, it became clear that all passengers and crew got out safely and that no passengers are seriously injured. For the first time ever, a passenger jet landed on [...]
Merry Christmas everyone!
Dec 24, 2008
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From here, we would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! I have the privilege of spending my first ever white Christmas in Estonia, as the last official white Christmas in the Netherlands was in 1981, three years before I was born. Here, up in the north, there is no lack of snow this year! [...]
History in the making
Nov 05, 2008
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Walking down the street, listening music on my iPod. I was trying to imagine what it was like in the United States at the time our parents were young, when people of different race were discriminated, abused and treated as lower than others. In the United States, and on many other places across the world. [...]
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