This is the archive for 04 August 2006
By VOA News
More than 100,000 Shi'ite followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have marched in Baghdad in support of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.
The protesters, clad in white shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die, marched through the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City district Friday, bearing yellow Hezbollah flags. They chanted slogans in support of the militia's battle against Israel.
Posted by courier at 07:30 AM. Filed under: News
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By Frances Robles and Martin Merzer
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI _ Cuban President Fidel Castro is in stable condition and recovering from surgery to stop intestinal bleeding, Cuban officials said Tuesday, but they issued no new photos of the 79-year-old dictator and provided little new information about his illness.
Posted by courier at 07:03 AM. Filed under: News
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James Anthony Froude (Froude rhymes with rood) (April 23, 1818 – October 20, 1894) was an English historian. He was the brother of the Anglo-Catholic polemicist Richard Hurrell Froude and of William Froude, the engineer and naval architect.
Read James A. Froude's
Froudacity:West Indian Fables, one of
six of his works available free from
Project Gutenberg.
Caricature of Froude from Punch, December 30 1882, page 303.
Artwork by Edward Linley Sambourne
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