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FREEDOM FRIES RAGE: A 22-year-old DuBois, Pa., man berated Burger King employees and nearly ran one over with his truck after the clerk at the drive-thru window told him they were out of french fries. After being stopped by police a short distance away, the man scuffled with police and kicked out the back window of a police car.

Paris is the capital city of France. It is situated on the River Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region ("Région parisienne"). Paris has an estimated population of 2,153,600 within city limit (2005 est.). The Paris urban area has a population of 9.93 million and a commuter belt around the same completes the Paris "aire urbaine" (roughly: "metropolitan area") that, with its population of 12 million,[4] is one of the most populated areas of its kind in Europe.

Paris' location at a crossroads between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made it one of France's principal cities by the 10th century, rich with royal palaces, wealthy abbeys and a cathedral; by the 12th century Paris had become one of Europe's foremost centres of learning and the arts. Today, Paris is a major influence in politics, fashion, business, arts and science. The city serves as an important hub of intercontinental transportation and is home to universities, sport events, opera companies and museums of international renown, making it an attraction for over 30 million foreign visitors per year.

The Paris region (Île-de-France) is France's foremost centre of economic activity. With €478.7 billion (US$595.3 billion), it produced more than a quarter of the gross domestic product (GDP) of France in 2005. With La Défense, the largest purpose-built business district in Europe, it hosts the head offices of almost half of the major French companies, as well as the headquarters of ten of the world's 100 largest companies.[9] Paris also hosts many international organizations such as UNESCO, the OECD, the ICC, or the informal Paris Club.

Around AD 500, Paris was the capital of the Frankish king Clovis I, who commissioned the first cathedral and its first abbey dedicated to his contemporary, later patron saint of the city, Sainte Geneviève. On the death of Clovis, the Frankish kingdom was divided, and Paris became the capital of a much smaller sovereign state. By the time of the Carolingian dynasty (9th century), Paris was little more than a feudal county stronghold. The Counts of Paris gradually rose to prominence and eventually wielded greater power than the Kings of Francia occidentalis. Odo, Count of Paris was elected king in place of the incumbent Charles the Fat, namely for the fame he gained in his defence of Paris during the Viking siege (Siege of Paris (885-886)). Although the Cité island had survived the Viking attacks, most of the unprotected Left Bank city was destroyed; rather than rebuild there, after drying marshlands to the north of the island, Paris began to expand onto the Right Bank. In 987 AD, Hugh Capet, Count of Paris, was elected King of France, founding the Capetian dynasty which would raise Paris to become France's capital.

From 1190, King Philip Augustus enclosed Paris on both banks with a wall that had the Louvre as its western fortress and in 1200 chartered the University of Paris which brought visitors from across Europe. It was during this period that the city developed a spatial distribution of activities that can still be seen: the central island housed government and ecclesiastical institutions, the left bank became a scholastic centre with the University and colleges, while the right bank developed as the centre of commerce and trade around the central Les Halles marketplace.

Paris lost its position as seat of the French realm while occupied by the English-ally Burgundians during the Hundred Years' War, but regained its title when Charles VII reclaimed the city in 1437; although Paris was capital once again, the Crown preferred to remain in its Loire Valley castles. During the French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic party, culminating in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (1572). King Henry IV re-established the royal court in Paris in 1594 after he captured the city from the Catholic party. During the Fronde, Parisians rose in rebellion and the royal family fled the city (1648). King Louis XIV then moved the royal court permanently to Versailles in 1682. A century later, Paris was the centre stage for the French Revolution, with the Storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the overthrow of the monarchy in 1792.

I know it's not my fault.

That's a good question. I've been trying to figure out who's fault it is for the past 4 years.

Sunshine on My Shoulders
John Denver

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high

If I had a day that I could give you
I'd give to you a day just like today
If I had a song that I could sing for you
I'd sing a song to make you feel this way

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high

If I had a tale that I could tell you
I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile
If I had a wish that I could wish for you
I'd make a wish for sunshine all the while

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry
Sunshine on the water looks so lovely
Sunshine almost always makes me high
Sunshine almost all the time makes me high
Sunshine almost always

Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.

On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.

In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact.

Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.

Victoria's Secret is an American retailer of women's
wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest
brand and a segment of publicly traded Limited Brands
with sales surpassing USD$5 billion and an operating
income of $1 billion in 2006. Victoria's Secret is
known for its fashion shows and catalogues, which
feature top fashion models.

There are 1,003 Victoria's Secret Stores in all, which
equals approximately 5,126,000 selling square feet.
$731 is the average dollar amount of sales that occur
per selling square footThe average store size in selling
square feet is 5,111.The net sales that each stores gross
is $3.7 million orabout $3.7 billion for all stores

Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear
Bob Rivers


Lacy things, the wife is missin'
Didn't ask, her permission
I'm wearin' her clothes
Her silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the store, there's a teddy
Little straps, like spaghetti
It holds me so tight
Like handcuffs at night
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the office there's a guy named Melvin,
He pretends that I am Murphy Brown
He'll say, "Are you ready?" I'll say, "Whoa Man!"
"Let's wait until our wives are out of town!"

Later on, if you wanna
We can dress, like Madonna
Put on some eyeshade
And join the parade
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

Lacy things- missin'
Didn't ask- permission
Wearin' her clothes
Silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (23 February 1932 – 18 December 2008; age 76) was
a recurring actress in the Star Trek franchise and was the wife of Star Trek
creator Gene Roddenberry from 1969 until his passing in 1991. This
association with Roddenberry and his most famous creation has earned Barrett
the title "The First Lady of Star Trek." Her most frequent portrayal in Star Trek, besides the computer, was that of Nurse (later Doctor) Christine Chapel on Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and in two of the films. She also voicedM'Ress and several other characters on The Animated Series and later playedBetazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Starrek: Deep Space Nine. Barrett died at her home in Bel Air, California, at 12:27AM on 18 December2008 following a short battle with leukemia. She was surrounded by family friends and her son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr. She was 76 years old.

Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, the son of a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College then served a two-year hitch in the army after graduating in 1953. Duvall began making a name for himself as a stage actor in New York, It was his appearance as "Lt. Col. Kilgore" in another Coppola picture, Apocalypse Now that solidified Duvall's reputation as a great actor.He got his second Academy Award nomination for the role, and was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most versatile actor in the worldHis greatest achievement in his immediate post-Oscar period was his triumphant characterization of grizzled Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in the TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" for which he received an Emmy nomination.He received a second Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Stalin (1992) (TV), and a third Emmy nomination playing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Man
Who Captured Eichmann

Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash

I hear the train a comin'
It's rollin' 'round the bend,
And I ain't seen the sunshine,
Since, I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison,
And time keeps draggin' on,
But that train keeps a-rollin',
On down to San Antone.

When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry.

I bet there's rich folks eatin',
In a fancy dining car,
They're probably drinkin' coffee,
And smokin' big cigars,
But I know I had it comin',
I know I can't be free,
But those people keep a-movin',
And that's what tortures me.

Well, if they freed me from this prison,
If that railroad train was mine,
I bet I'd move out over a little,
Farther down the line,
Far from Folsom Prison,
That's where I want to stay,
And I'd let that lonesome whistle,
Blow my Blues away.

The Abu Ghraib prison is in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km (20 mi) west of Baghdad. It became internationally known as a place where Saddam Hussein's government tortured and executed dissidents, and later as the site of Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal where the United States military's torture of Iraqi detainees was revealed in a series of photographs published in worldwide news media.Under Saddam's Ba'ath government, it was known as Abu Ghraib Prison and had a reputation as a place of torture and some of the worst cases of torture in the modern world. It was sometimes referred to in the Western media as "Saddam's Torture Central". The prison was renamed after United States forces expelled the former Iraqi government, which had called it the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility (BCCF) or Baghdad Central Correctional Facility. In May of 2004, Camp Avalanche, a tent camp on the grounds of Abu Ghraib for security detainees, changed its name to Camp Redemption at the request of a governing council member.The prison complex was built by American contractors in the 1960s, and covered 280 acres (1.15 km²) with a total of 24 guard towers. The size of a small town, the area was divided into five separate walled compounds for different types of prisoners. Each block contained a dining room, prayer room, exercise area and rudimentary washing facilities. Cells contained up to 40 people in a space four metres by four. By the fall of the government in 2003 the five compounds were designated for foreign prisoners, long sentences, short sentences, capital crimes and "special" crimes.

How to Rebuild a Carburetor

Things You’ll Need:
Carburetor kit
Safety mask
Safety glasses
Carburetor cleaner
Toothbrush

Step1
Purchase a carburetor rebuild kit from the
dealer. These kits will usually have all the parts
you'll need to rebuild a carburetor, including all
of the rubber parts and gaskets.

Step2
Prepare your place to work on rebuilding your
carburetor. This type of work produces a lot of
fumes. You'll want to make sure you have a place
with proper ventilation. A safety/vapor mask will
help prevent inhalation of fumes. Safety glasses
will keep dirt, grease and debris from flying in
your eyes as you clean carburetor parts with a
brush. Your work area needs to be clean and needs
good lighting. You'll be working with lots of
screws and tiny pieces.

Step3
Look carefully at the diagram that comes with
your carburetor kit. The kits will differ depending
on what kind of carburetor you are rebuilding.
Vehicle carburetors are more complex than a lawn
mower, of course. Get familiar with the parts your
kit contains. Your diagram will be helpful when
putting it all back together.

Step4
Start by disconnecting the accelerator pump.
Remove the cover. The choke linkages along with the
choke itself will need to be removed. Be especially
careful to note how the choke linkages fit together.
If you write down on paper telling yourself exactly
where each part goes as you proceed, it will make it
much easier when you put it all back together. Each
hose and screw will need to be replaced, so take
note where each one connects. Again, different
carburetor kits will vary in the exact numbers of
parts that they have.

Step5
Use your brush and can of carburetor spray
cleaner to clean each part. Some people use a wire
brush, but stiff wire can damage delicate parts if
you rub too hard. Toothbrushes work well for this
type of cleaning.

Step6
Finish by using your kit diagram and the notes
you took while taking the carburetor apart to put
it all back together. Make sure you tighten each
screw carefully. Don't tighten too much or you will
strip the threads. Check each part off your list as
you rebuild your carburetor. Retracing your steps
using the list you wrote will prevent you from
forgetting a connection.

The Beetles' Song List

A Day In The Life
A Hard Day's Night
All My Loving
All Things Must Pass*
All Together Now
All You Need Is Love
And I Love Her
And Your Bird Can Sing
Anna (Go To Him)*
Another Girl
Any Time At All
Ask Me Why*
Baby It's You*
Baby You're A Rich Man*
Back In The U.S.S.R.
Bad Boy
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Birthday
Blackbird
Boys*
Can't Buy Me Love
Carry That Weight
Come And Get It*
Come Together
Day Tripper
Dear Prudence
Do You Want To Know A Secret*
Don't Let Me Down
Drive My Car
Eight Days A Week
Eleanor Rigby
Every Little Thing*
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby*
Fixing A Hole
For No One*
Free As A Bird*
From Me To You
Get Back
Getting Better
Girl*
Glass Onion
Golden Slumbers
Good Day Sunshine
Good Morning, Good Morning
Got To Get You Into My Life
Hello Goodbye
Help!
Helter Skelter*
Here Comes The Sun
Here, There and Everywhere*

The Beetles' Song List

Hey Bulldog
Hey Jude
Hold Me Tight*
I Am The Walrus
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
I Feel Fine
I Saw Her Standing There
I Should Have Known Better
I Wanna Be Your Man
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Want You (She's So Heavy)*
I Will
I'll Be Back
I'll Cry Instead
I'll Follow The Sun*
I'm A Loser
I'm Down
I'm Looking Through You
I'm So Tired*
I've Got A Feeling
I've Just Seen A Face
If I Fell*
If I Needed Someone
In My Life
It Won't Be Long
It's Only Love*
Lady Madonna
Let It Be
Love Me Do
Lovely Rita
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Magical Mystery Tour
Martha My Dear*
Mean Mr. Mustard
Michelle*
Money
Mother Nature's Son
No Reply
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Nowhere Man
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Octopus's Garden
Oh! Darling
One After 909
P.S. I Love You*
Paperback Writer
Penny Lane
Please Mr. Postman
Please Please Me
Polythene Pam
Rain
Real Love*
Revolution
Rock And Roll Music
Rocky Racoon
Roll Over Beethoven
Run For Your Life
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
She Loves You
She Said, She Said
She's A Woman
She's Leaving Home
Shout*
Something
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sun King
Taxman
Tell Me What You See*
Tell Me Why
Thank You Girl*
The Ballad Of John and Yoko
The End
The Fool On The Hill
The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Long And Winding Road
The Night Before
The Word
Things We Said Today
This Boy
Ticket To Ride
Till There Was You
Tomorrow Never Knows
Twist and Shout
Two Of Us
Wait
We Can Work It Out
When I'm Sixty Four
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
With A Little Help From My Friends
Yellow Submarine
Yer Blues*
Yes It Is*
Yesterday
You Can't Do That
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)*
You Never Give Me Your Money
You Really Got A Hold On Me
You Won't See Me
You're Going To Lose That Girl
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

8 years now.