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Rain stops for Pirate Fest parade on Tybee (Savannah Morning News)
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:11:54 GMT Any Tybee Island local will say a little driving rain wouldn't have stopped them from having the fourth annual Pirate Fest parade. And anyone who knows weather in the Coastal Empire would say the sky around here can change in an instant. As if Mother Nature herself were attending the festival, the black and blue clouds dumping sheets of rain on thousands of Pirate Fest revelers parted ...

The Fighting Ground: Chapter 3 (The Sacramento Bee)
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:17:06 GMT The story so far: Determined to fight in the American Revolution, 13-year-old Jonathan struggles to catch up with the other soldiers after borrowing a musket from the local tavernkeeper.

Journey's end (BBC News)
Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:10:57 GMT Leaving behind the Canaries' beaked whales

â€The sky looks awful queer...â€ (The Block Island Times)
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:59:14 GMT Maizie Rose No one in Rhode Island at the time will ever forget the 1938 Hurricane, which struck Block Island without warning just 70 years ago this Sunday. Maizie Rose, a fixture of island life for generations, remembered it all vividly in a story that appeared in the September 19, 1976 Providence Sunday Journal Magazine.

A father's charm, absence (Boston Globe)
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:42:08 GMT On a hot July weekend nearly 40 years ago, Barack Obama Sr. was shopping on a busy Nairobi street when he ran into his friend and mentor Tom Mboya, one of Kenya's most charismatic political leaders. The two chatted for several minutes and Obama kidded him that his car was illegally parked.

Daredevil reporter takes to the skies (holdthefrontpage.co.uk)
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:20:04 GMT South Wales Evening Post reporter Richard Youle recently completed a skydive from 12,500 feet above the Gower Peninsula to raise money for his favourite charity, the RNLI.

Obituary: Richard Wright (Guardian Unlimited)
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:37:12 GMT Obituary: Keyboard player and founder member of Pink Floyd

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