Saturday, May 16, 2009

--United crowned champions 2008/2009--



Manchester United are Premier League champions for an 11th time after drawing 0-0 with Arsenal at Old Trafford. The title was sealed in uninspiring style - they did not have a single shot on target - though that will not concern Sir Alex Ferguson and his players.
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--Vitas Bumac--Opera #02--

Vitas (born 19 February 1981, Daugavpils, Latvian SSR), is a Russian pop singer, composer, actor, and fashion designer. He is most commonly known by his shortened first name, Vitas, or Витас in Russian. Much of his music is straightforward pop influenced by techno, and occasionally classical opera.

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He has received much of his fame through Russian television and is planning to sign to entertainment labels in countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in order to expand to those markets. Vitas' 2000 video "Opera #2" has been forwarded frequently via the Internet, which accounts for much of his worldwide recognition.

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

Friday, May 15, 2009

--The Pizza Company-Cambodia--





The Pizza Company is a restaurant chain and international franchise based in Bangkok, Thailand. With focus on pizza and Italian-American cuisine, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Minor International (also known as The Minor Food Group). The company had operated Tricon Global Restaurants' franchised Pizza Hut brand since its introduction in Thailand in 1981, and when their agreement was terminated, The Pizza Company was established as the company's own brand in 2001. The restaurant has franchises in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, the Philippines and Cambodia.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

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


Legendary singer Frank Sinatra dies
May 15, 1998
Web posted at: 10:57 a.m. EDT (1457 GMT)
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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- "Ol' Blue Eyes," Frank Sinatra, is being mourned Friday around the world by millions of fans after his death from a heart attack. The Sinatra family plans to hold a private funeral. The time and location of the service have not been disclosed.
Sinatra, 82, was pronounced dead Thursday at 10:50 p.m. in the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his publicist, Susan Reynolds. Sinatra's family, including his wife, was with him when he died.
Sinatra was a master craftsman and ranked as one of the most influential singers in this country's history. In more than 200 albums, his music led the evolution of Big Band to vocal American music.

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~http://www.hollywoodusa.co.uk/DesertObituaries/franksinatra.htm
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~http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9805/15/sinatra.obit/
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~http://www.sinatra.com/
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~http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/05/98/sinatra/94141.stm

--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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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

--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