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NEWS

Students unite with one voice of hope

Photogallery of flags and candles remembering September 11,2001 victims

Jewish students walk for Israel

IMPRESSIONS

A patriotic war is just to protect people (1)

Americans face their toughest challenge

Proud beyond words to be an American

War is necessary for justice

Not all Middle Easterner's are suspect

Failure ought to be the stepping stone to success

Students vote matters

A lot of good Lott's apology did!

It is a matter of principle and ethics

EXPRESSIONS

Red, White, & Blue

Constitution supports God and patriotism

One Numb-er

He sees you all the time

Vote for the perfect candidate 24-7!

What if Jesus talked football?

Gospel revealed through semantics and word play

Only the right antidote can protect your life

God's love is alphabetically revealed in random languages

HOTPRESSIONS

Homosexuality examined in light of Scripture and Science

No choice is not an excuse to do wrong!

Consequences do not imply hate!

Casual sex cheapens a person

PHOTOGALLERY

Photogallery of students enjoying Thanksgiving feast at the Marketplace

Photogallery of Pitt women dominating the 1st place prizes at the Marketplace

Photogallery of men's basketball team plaing Blue-Gold Scrimmage game

Photogallery of students camping out for basketball tickets

Photogallery of homecoming extravaganza

Photo gallery of Pitt v.s. Notre Dame game highlights during the Big East opener.

Photo gallery of Pitt students being fired up for Pitt v.s Notre Dame game

Get to know your Pitt Panther being carried by Oakland Zoo fans during Pitt v.s. Notre Dame

FEATURE

What Kappa Delta means to me!

Pitt dance team dances into the hearts of Pitt fans

Freshman cheerleaders love their cheerleading experience

Pitt student experiences love of the Cross Seekers

SPECIAL FEATURE

The top 44 answers to "Camping out for basketball tickets is like...."

Top 25 reasons of 2002 given by students eating at the C-side Marketplace for the origins of the candy cane!

Top 14 reasons to ‘Why being in love is beneficial for your health…..”

Top 14 responses to "Love is...." including #1 answer in many common languages

SPORTS    

Lottery fever for basketball tickets reaches O'Hara St

Panther's blowout win over Orangemen begins tough road ahead

Newspapers across Pennsylvania cover Pittsburgh Panthers Insight Bowl victory                       

Pitt athletes and friends come together

Reddy's crazy NFL rankings after the regular season

 CONTEST

PS NCAA Tournament

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY DEC 10

Religion:
1520 - German reformer Martin Luther publicly burned Pope Leo X's bull, "Exsurge Domine," which had demanded that Luther recant his "protestant" heresies, including that of justification by faith alone rather than through purchased indulgences or other papal favors.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

News:  100 years ago
1903 -
Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie.

Source:  http://www.scopesys.com/today

News: 50 years ago
1953 - WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling OH (CBS) begins .

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

News: 25 years ago
1978 -
In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.

Source:  http://www.scopesys.com/today

News:  10 years ago
1993 - Dow Jones hits record 3740.67.
 
Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

News:  5 years ago
1998 - FindLaw for Legal Professionals posted on this day the case of  Syntex v. Lowsley-Williams 12/9/98 CA1/3 A076964M.PDF - A076964M.DOC  


Source: http://california.lp.findlaw.com/ca02_caselaw/december1998.html

News: 1 year ago
2002- The CNS news reported  that the Torah rescued during Holocaust gets new home at Boston College.

Source: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20021210.htm

December 10th happenings in history!

Entertainment:

1927 - Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville TN.

Inventions:

1915 - 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled

News:

1690 -Massachusetts Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money.
 
1817 - Mississippi admitted as 20th state.
 
1869 - Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st).
 
1898 - Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam.

1941- British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore.
 
1948 - UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

1952 -Yitzhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd President of Israel.

1958 - 1st domestic (New York-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111.

1958 - University of Pittsburgh agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates.

1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president.

1984 - 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered.

1985 -
Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress.

1987 - "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time.
 
1990  - Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die.
 
1991  - Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

1995 -  Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982.

Nobel Peace Prizes:

1901 - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy).
 
1906 - 1st American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - President Theodore Roosevelt.

1907 - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature.
 
1910 - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics.
 
1911 - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace.

1913 - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics.

1920 - President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize.
 
1922 - Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein.

1924 - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine.
 
1931 - Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
 
1936 - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry.

1950 - 1st black American awarded Nobel Peace Prize - Ralph J Bunche.

1954 - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize.

1964 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. 

1966 - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature.

1966 - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken.

1971 -  West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace.
 
1975 - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
 
1983 - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.

1984 - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize.

1986 -
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize.

Sports:

1983 - Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7.

1992 - NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim (for 1994-95).
 
1992 - Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record).
 
1994 - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat.
 
1995 - 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81.

Source: http://www.scopesys.com/today

Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy

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