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What did you Google in 2024? From the elections to Copa América, here’s what search trends show

December 10, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on What did you Google in 2024? From the elections to Copa América, here’s what search trends show

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember what you searched for in 2024? Google does. Google released its annual “Year in Search” on Tuesday, rounding up the top trending queries entered into its namesake search engine in 2024. The […]

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Christopher Nolan on ‘Interstellar’s’ cosmic success 10 years later

December 10, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Christopher Nolan on ‘Interstellar’s’ cosmic success 10 years later

The hardest movie ticket to get this weekend was for a film audiences have been able to watch at home for years: Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar.” The science fiction epic starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway earned $4.5 […]

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Gun group wants new taxes and permits for WA firearm sales

December 10, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Gun group wants new taxes and permits for WA firearm sales

by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardDecember 10, 2024 Washington’s leading gun control group wants state lawmakers to make it tougher and more expensive to buy a firearm. The Alliance for Gun Responsibility said Monday it […]

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Replacement picked for longtime Washington senator

December 10, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Replacement picked for longtime Washington senator

by Laurel Demkovich, Washington State StandardDecember 10, 2024 Democrat Tina Orwall is the latest state representative to make the switch to the Legislature’s other chamber.  Orwall was appointed by the King County Council on Tuesday […]

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Judges in Oregon, Washington, block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger

December 10, 2024 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Judges in Oregon, Washington, block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger

by Julia Shumway, Oregon Capital ChronicleDecember 10, 2024 Editor’s note: The Capital Chronicle is running an end-of-year fundraising campaign, with a $10,000 goal, to help us continue our first-class coverage next year. A lot is […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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From what language did English borrow the word "ukulele"?

In the Hawaiian language the word ukulele roughly translates as 'jumping flea', perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers. Legend attributes it to the nickname of Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalākaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise.

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On what show did Heather Locklear make her TV debut in a recurring role?

In 1982, Locklear began a long term association with television producer Aaron Spelling. First, she was cast in a recurring role as Sammy Jo Dean on Spelling's Dynasty. The following year, while still appearing on Dynasty, Locklear took on a starring role as Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama T.J. Hooker.

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Originally called pimento, what popular spice was first grown in Jamaica?

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

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Who recorded the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears from their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair (1985).

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Who wrote the book "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind.

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