Loy Krathong Festival, a festival of light at full moon in the twelfth lunar month. It is celebrated in Thailand at the end of the rainy period as thanksgiving for the rainfall, so essential for survi More: continued here
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Everest conqueror Hillary immortalised in postage stampsMonsters and Critics.com –40 minutes agoWellington – The life of Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest and Antarctic explorer, is to be immortalised in a series of five postage stamps in … More: continued here
The federal government should increase spending on health care, transportation projects, food stamps and unemployment benefits to help New York and other states recover from the economic slump, Gov. David Paterson said at a congressional hearing yesterday in Washington. More: continued here
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