--Norodom Sihamoni - Cambodia--

Norodom Sihamoni (Khmer: នរោត្តម សីហមុនី, born 14 May 1953) is the King of Cambodia. He is the eldest son of Norodom Sihanouk and Norodom Monineath Sihanouk. Previously Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO, he was named by a nine-member throne council to become the next king after his father Norodom Sihanouk abdicated in 2004. Before ascending the throne, Sihamoni was best known for his work as a cultural ambassador in Europe and as a classical dance instructor.

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Sihamoni was born in 1953. At the time of his birth and that of his younger brother, his mother, a Cambodian citizen of Italian and Khmer ancestry, was one of King Sihanouk's companions, though it was not known if she was officially one his concubines.[1][2] (A granddaughter of HRH Prince Norodom Duongchak of Cambodia, Queen Monineath is a daughter of Pomme Peang and her second husband, Jean-François Izzi, a French-Italian banker.) The Royal Ark website entry about the genealogy of the Cambodian royal family states that Sihanouk and Monineath were married twice, once on 12 April 1952, when she was 15, and again ("more formally", according to the website) on 5 March 1955; she is described as Sihanouk's seventh wife.[2] King Norodom Sihamoni has 12 half-brothers and half-sisters by his father's various relationships; his only full sibling, a younger brother, HRH Samdech Norodom Narindrapong (born 1954) died in 2003.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihamoni

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--May 13 Incident Malaysia 1969-2009--

The May 13 Incident is a term for the Sino-Malay race riots in Kuala Lumpur (then part of the state of Selangor), Malaysia, which began on May 13, 1969. The riots led to a declaration of a state of national emergency and suspension of Parliament by the Malaysian government, while the National Operations Council (NOC or MAGERAN) was established to temporarily govern the country between 1969 and 1971.
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Officially, 196 people were killed between May 13 and July 31 as a result of the riots, although journalists and other observers have stated much higher figures. Other reports at the time say over 2,000 were killed by rioters and police and Malaysian Army rangers mainly in Kuala Lumpur. Many of the dead were buried in the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital grounds in unmarked graves quickly by soldiers of Malaysian Engineers. The government cited the riots as the main cause of its more aggressive affirmative action policies, such as the New Economic Policy (NEP), after 1969.
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"1969 election, Chinese opposition parties won bigger than expected and started a parade (May 12) that angered the Malays.
Some UMNO leaders than organized retaliate parades the other day (May 13) and that’s when riots happened.
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Then comes the folks stories of parang (a type of knife) killing, massive rapping, fire burning.. some one sided massacre on Chinese citizens in Kuala Lumpur area, followed by a nationwide curfew."


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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13_Incident
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~http://jeelife.com/2006/07/22/what-really-happened-in-the-may-13-1969-incident/
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~http://may131969.wordpress.com/
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13:_Declassified_Documents_on_the_Malaysian_Riots_of_1969
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~http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/May_13_Incident
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~http://testserver.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/1969_Kuala_Lumpur%2C_Malaysia_Race_Riots

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--Sichuan earthquake anniversary--

Parents of victims told not to hold memorials
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Parents of the children who died during last year's earthquake in Sichuan have been threatened with imprisonment if they hold memorials for their dead on May 12th, the one year anniversary of the disaster.
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The government has released figures stating that 5,335 school children died when the 7.9
magnitude earthquake hit the south-western province. Most perished when their schools collapsed.
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Anger over the number of children killed and the government's failure to hold an inquiry into the reason why almost 12,000 schools were destroyed or damaged has been rising ahead of the sensitive first anniversary of the earthquake, which left 70,000 dead and another 18,000 missing.
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In an attempt to silence protests, some parents have been detained in so-called 'black jails', or unofficial prisons, for up to 21 days. Now, though, they have been threatened with longer jail terms if they attempt to commemorate their children.
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"The police visited me earlier this week and said that if we stage a memorial, then we won't just be temporarily detained, but we might go to prison for a few years," said Luo Guoming.
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Mr Luo had been planning to hold a memorial on May 12th for his 16-year-old daughter Luo Dan at the site of the Juyuan Middle School near Dujiangyan, along with some of the other parents of the estimated 300 children who died when the school collapsed last May. But the land where the school once stood is now surrounded by barbed wire and parents and journalists have been forbidden from approaching it'.
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~http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5294397/Sichuan-earthquake-anniversary-Parents-of-victims-told-not-to-hold-memorials.html

--5 Sleep Myths Busted--

It accounts for a third of your life and a big chunk of your health and longevity. So why aren't you sleeping enough?

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What a night. The woman of your dreams appeared. Your pulse raced. Heavy breathing ensued. You do remember it, right? Oh, wait, you were asleep. And that's not all you missed. Under cover of night, sleep floods your veins with age-defying human growth hormone. Sleep raises an army of T cells and sends them into battle against colds and infection. Sleep resets the appetite controls that tell you to not hit the turn signal when you pass a McDonald's. And, of course, sleep helps you above the neck as well as below the belt.

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"It stabilizes your waking brain, makes you more alert, and allows you to process information faster," says David Dinges, Ph.D., who studies shut-eye at the University of Pennsylvania. "It helps you remember things and consolidate those memories." You won't get that from a Red Bull. So then why are we engaged in a society-wide experiment in sleep deprivation? Average nightly sleep time during the workweek in the United States is down nearly 20 minutes in the last decade, to six hours and 40 minutes. And men ages 30 to 44 are the worst offenders: Thirty percent of them say they log less than six hours of sleep at night, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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~http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100235358&GT1=31036

--Frank Sinatra--Fly Me to the Moon (1964)--

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998)

"Fly Me to the Moon" is a pop standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. When introduced by Felicia Sanders on the cabaret circuit, it was originally titled "In Other Words". The song became popularly called "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, but it took a few years for the publishers to change the title officially.
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Frank Sinatra recorded the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played to the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar mission. Sinatra also performed the song with Basie on 1966's Sinatra at the Sands, and on 1994's Duets II, his final recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" and his final collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim. He also performed this song in 1969 TV-show "Sinatra", there he dedicated it to the Apollo astronauts "who made the impossible possible".
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Me_to_the_Moon

--John Lennon-Imagine (1971)--

"Imagine" is a song written and performed by English rock musician John Lennon. Among Lennon's best known and influential songs, it is considered by critics to be his magnum opus. The track was released as a single in October 1971, and is the opening track of his album Imagine released the same year. "Imagine" reached #3 in the U.S. Billboard charts, and #6 in the United Kingdom. After Lennon's death in 1980, the song rose to #1 on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained for four weeks. When asked about the song in one of his last interviews, Lennon declared "Imagine" to be as good as anything he had written with the Beatles. The song is one of three Lennon solo songs, along with "Instant Karma!" and "Give Peace a Chance", in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #3 among greatest song of all time.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(song)