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Ellen L. Reed, 90
Ellen Lorna Olsson Reed, 90, of Crisfield, Md., died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2011, at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury, Md.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, she was the daughter of the late Herbert Olaf Olsson and Elizabeth Marion Olsson.
Preceding...Tags: Australia, Christianity, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief, Human Interest
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World's 50 Best Restaurants: El Celler de Can Roca beats out Noma for planet's top restaurant
The annual list of the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" has come out, and three-year champ Noma, in Copenhagen, has been knocked from its No. 1 perch. El Celler de Can Roca, a Spanish restaurant presided over by the Roca brothers, has bumped René Redzepi's...
Tags: Italy, Michelin Group, Restaurants, New York City, Awards and Prizes
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SXSW 2013: Nick Cave on life spent in an 'imaginative world'
AUSTIN, Texas -- Outspoken rock 'n' roll balladeer Nick Cave traced his beginnings from “rural Australia” to the more comforting confines of his own imagination in a sprawling, hour-long chat at the South by Southwest music conference here....Tags: Australia, Music, Landforms, Entertainment, Feminism
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Australia's Back to Back pushes theatrical boundaries
At first blush, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" sounds like a long-lost Monty Python skit about some bizarre time-tripping action-figure wrestling bout. Indeed, as the title hints, a cosmic smackdown between the pachyderm Hindu god and the German Führer...Tags: Celebrities, Australia, Autism, The New York Times, Science and Technology
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Australian Open 2013 TV schedule
Channel Guide MagazineAustralian Open 2013 TV schedule on ESPN2 and Tennis Channel begins Jan. 13 with coverage from Melbourne Park. The first Grand Slam of the tennis calendar takes place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, as the world’s best tennis players head... -
Rafael Nadal pulls out of Australian Open
Rafael Nadal's comeback has been put on hold for a few more weeks -- or perhaps, a couple of months -- following his withdrawal from the Australian Open. But it is not the troublesome left knee preventing him from playing in Melbourne. The Spanish...
Tags: Rafael Nadal, Wimbledon Championships, Viral Diseases and Infections, Radio Industry, Tennis
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Media matriarch and philanthropist Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies at 103
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, mother of News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, has died at her home outside Melbourne, Australia, at the age of 103. The matriarch of the world's most prominent media family was well-known in Australia for her philanthropy, and...
Tags: News Corp., Newspaper and Magazine, Children's Health, Australia, Rupert Murdoch
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UCI researcher urges better use of repurposed water
A recent article by a UC Irvine researcher argues that more of the water that normally runs off into storm drains should be repurposed and used to water plants and flush toilets. Lead author Stanley Grant said so-called graywater and wastewater from...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Conservation, Mountains, Droughts, Natural Disasters
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Roger A. Bell, astronomy professor
Roger Alistair Bell, a University of Maryland professor of astronomy who specialized in the discovery of physical properties and compositions of stars, died July 1 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at the Dove House in Westminster. The Ashton...Tags: Education, Australia, Colleges and Universities, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Science and Technology
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Obituary: Eugene "Gino" Verdon III
Eugene “Gino” Verdon III, age 22, passed away May 31, 2012, in Melbourne, Australia. Tragically, he was another victim of type 1 (juvenile) diabetes. Gino went to bed in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 31 — healthy, happy and...
Tags: Australia, Christianity, Forests, Taiwan, Diabetes
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News of the Weird: Doomsday Units
Condo developer Larry Hall is already one-quarter sold out of the upscale doomsday units he is building in an abandoned underground Cold War-era Atlas-F missile silo near Salina, Kan. He told an Agence France-Presse reporter in April that his 14-story...
Tags: Dan O'Leary, Bank Robbery, Prisons, BBC
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PASSINGS: Doris Betts, Norman Fruman, Stanley R. Resor, Greg Ham, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller
Doris Betts
Southern author of short stories, novels
Doris Betts, 79, a novelist and writing teacher best known for short stories and novels that evoke the geography and mores of the South, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Pittsboro, N.C.,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Awards and Prizes, Teaching and Learning, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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