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  Daylight saving time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fire safety officials in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States encourage citizens to use the two annual time changes as a reminder to check the batteries in home and office fire alarms and smoke detectors.
Chile switches to DST at midnight at the end of the second Saturday in October and reverts to Local Standard Time (LST) at midnight at the end of the second Saturday the following March.
Starting and ending dates are variable: normally DST starts at midnight on an October (rarely November) Sunday and ends at midnight on a February or March Sunday.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daylight_Saving_Time   (6495 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Easter
At midnight, before Matins, the clergy in silence entered the dark church and removed the cross from the sepulchre to the high altar.
The Easter Fire is lit on the top of mountains (Easter mountain, Osterberg) and must be kindled from new fire, drawn from wood by friction (nodfyr); this is a custom of pagan origin in vogue all over Europe, signifying the victory of spring over winter.
The Church adopted the observance into the Easter ceremonies, referring it to the fiery column in the desert and to the Resurrection of Christ; the new fire on Holy Saturday is drawn from flint, symbolizing the Resurrection of the Light of the World from the tomb closed by a stone (Missale Rom.).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05224d.htm   (3990 words)

  
 Cosmic Log: March 18-24, 2006 - Cosmic Log - MSNBC.com
SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket fires its engine for a few seconds on Tuesday as part of a launch-pad test on Omelek Island in the Pacific.
"We had a great static fire today.  Falcon was held down for almost three seconds of thrust (T+0.5s), part of which was under autonomous thrust vector control.  All systems were green and no aborts were triggered.
Some of Munch's letters from 1902 refer to the painting by the title "Summer Nights," confirming the researchers' conclusion that the girls were gazing at the setting moon on a late summer evening.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11912606   (3180 words)

  
 play.net >> the Egyptian Gods of Alliance of Heroes
She's got a knife, and she knows how to use it.
She fires arrows at the enemies of the kingdom and strikes down the transgressors of truth.
Sekhmet is shown as a woman with the head of a lioness.
www.play.net /aoh/info/gods-egypt.asp   (1152 words)

  
 Revolutionary History, Clarendon County, SC
Under a flag of truce the Major complained and after talking it was decided each side would field twenty men to face off and fight.
Major Vanderhorst and the picked twenty decided to wait until they were fifty yards away to fire their buckshot.
James fired on the British at Singleton’s Mill but quickly departed the mill area when he learned the Singletons had smallpox.
web.ftc-i.net /~gcsummers/revolution.htm   (3747 words)

  
 Anime News Network - Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
InuYasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honor
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 Browse The NYPL Digital Picture Collection(P)
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) 1835-1903 -- The land of the midnight sun : summer jo
Goodspeed, E. (Edgar Johnson) 1833-1881 -- History of the great fires in Chicago an
Lossing, Benson John 1813-1891 -- A history of the United States : for fam
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 Mystery Readers International's Macavity Awards
Playing with Fire by Peter Robinson (William Morrow)
The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King (Dutton)
Best Critical/Biographical: 1001 Midnights by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
www.mysteryreaders.org /macavity.html   (2093 words)

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