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Blizzard Warning: Heavy snow and strong winds will produce a blinding snow, near zero visibility, deep drifts and life-threatening wind chill. Freezing rain: Rain that freezes when it hits the ground, creating a coating of ice on roads and walkways. Frost/Freeze Warning: Below freezing temperatures are expected. Sleet: Rain that turns to ice pellets before reaching the ground. Sleet also causes roads to freeze and become slippery. Winter Storm Warning: Severe winter conditions have begun or will begin very soon....

Men: 1. Dmitry Svatkovsky, RUS (5,376 pts); 2. Gabor Balogh, HUN (5,353); 3. Pavel Dovgal, BLR (5,338). Women: 1. Stephanie Cook, GBR (5,318 pts); 2. Emily deRiel, USA (5,310); 3. Kate Allenby, GBR (5,273).

League Championship—Super Bowl XL

This was once a popular sport in the U.S. Homing pigeons were transported to a designated place, then released to fly home. Several pigeons would compete at a time, and the first pigeon to reach home won. This sport is very popular in Alaska. Each dog team harnessed to a sled is controlled by a driver, called a musher. The teams are timed from start to finish, and the fastest team wins....

Football Was My Escape On February 15, 2013, American soccer player Robbie Rogers came out as gay in a post on his blog after being released from Leeds United. In the post, he stated, “Secrets can cause so much internal damage. People love to preach about honesty, how honesty is so plain and simple. Try explaining to your loved ones after 25 years you are gay. I always thought I could hide this secret....

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Hurricane Season 2015—Review Hurricane season 2015 had 12 named storms, 2 hurricanes, and 2 major hurricanes. Tropical Storm Erika was the most costly, with $17.4 million in damage, while Major Hurricane Joaquin was the most deadly, killing 34. Hurricane Season 2014—Review The 2014 Atlantic hurricane season had below-normal activity. NOAA reports 8 named storms (top winds 39 mph or higher), 6 hurricanes (top winds 74 mph or higher), 2 major hurricanes (category 3–5; winds at least 111 mph)....

Which network newsmagazine anchor has three children with cartoonist Gary Trudeau?Katie CouricBarbara WaltersJane PauleyDiane Sawyer Which Pulitzer Prize-winning poet wrote Mother Love: Poems, a collection of poems about the bond between mothers and daughters?Rita DoveMaya AngelouEmily DickinsonCarolyn Kizer Which Pulitzer Prize winning writer founded Welcome House, a shelter that provides care for children of Asian women and U.S. soldiers?E. Annie ProulxKatherine Anne PorterEudora WeltyPearl Buck In Greek mythology, who is the Goddess of the Earth and the mother of Cyclopes, the Hundred-handed Ones, and the Titans?...

Until 2007, there were four known planets orbiting 55 Cancri. A fifth planet was detected early in 2007 with a mass 45 times that of Earth. It orbits its star in 260 days at a distance of 70 million miles, which is roughly the distance of Venus from the Sun. The new planet may also have rocky moons orbiting it, but none have yet been spotted. It is unlikely that the moons could harbor life even if they do exist....

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Many stars came into being before the Sun was formed; many others formed after the Sun appeared. This process continues, and through telescopes we can now see stars forming out of compressed pockets of hydrogen in outer space. In 1992, instruments aboard the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite showed that 99.97 percent of the energy of the universe was released within the first year of its origin. This evidence seems to confirm the Big Bang theory, which holds that the universe originated from a single violent explosion (a big bang) of a very small amount of matter of extremely high density and temperature....

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