The Federal Reserve suffered a widespread disruption in multiple payment services Wednesday, including a system that banks and businesses rely on to zip trillions of dollars around the financial system each day.
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Author: THE COAL SPEAKER
Papa Bear don’t preach: Stain vs Stein is back again
If this little bear being passed around on Facebook is real, you can tuck yourself to sleep at night knowing that all is well in the old world of the Berenstein bears.
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The death of the dittohead
The life and times of Rush Limbaugh
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30 years ago: Gilberton’s brief brush with fame in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
Valentine’s Day 1991: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS vs NOTHING BUT TROUBLE in box offices..
A stroll back in time to when “Valkenvania” was based on Centralia and filmed scenes in Gilberton
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St. Valentine, Lupercalia, and the Pottsville Republican “nylon” ad that made it all happen.. The history of the day is not what you may know
So before you order the steak and lobster and spend ridiculously higher prices at a restaurant than a normal night, consider the source of the holiday.. Let’s take a deep dive back and ponder the beginnings.. And come to grips with the meaning for the expensive season. This will be something to talk about over a candlelit dinner!
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35 years ago, as students watched across the nation, astronauts ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth, to touch the face of God’
January 28 1986: Temperatures at NASA’s Cape Canaveral dipped to a frigid 18 degrees that morning.. At 11:38am on January
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