Historic milestones tied to January 24 moments
January 24 marks events from 1908 Britain’s Boy Scouts birth under Baden-Powell to 1989 Theodore Bundy’s execution in Florida. Also noted are 1742 Charles VII election, 1848 Sutter’s Mill nugget, Eskimo Pie patent 1924 Petrograd renamed Leningrad, Cosmos 954 crash 1978, and other dated milestones.
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England
Robert Baden-Powell
Charles VII
James W. Marshall
Sutter's Mill
California
Christian K. Nelson
Onawa
Iowa
Petrograd
St. Petersburg
Leningrad
Earth
Canada
Theodore Bundy
Florida
Toyota retains world’s No 1 automaker crown after 9.366m sales
Toyota reported 9.366 million vehicles sold globally last year, about 3,000 fewer than General Motors, keeping GM briefly ahead before a correction showed GM’s total at 9,369,524. GM had led the world in sales for 77 years as the two automakers raced neck and neck all year.
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General Motors
U.S
Detroit
Toyota Motor Corp
Paul Nolasco
Tokyo
General Motors Corp
Last Eyak language's last speaker Marie Smith Jones dies
Marie Smith Jones, 89, the last full-blood Eyak and final native Eyak speaker, died Monday in her Anchorage home. An activist, she opposed land clear cutting, helped repatriate bones from the Smithsonian, and spoke at a UN indigenous peoples conference. Linguist Michael Krauss called her a poster child for language extinction.
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Marie Smith Jones
Anchorage
Leonard Smith
Smith Jones
Alaska
Smithsonian Institution
United Nations
Michael Krauss
Alaska Native Languages Center
Wanted Marine Laurean visited relatives in Mexico
Marine Cesar Laurean, wanted in the slaying of a pregnant colleague, reportedly visited relatives in Mexico last week. His cousin Juan Antonio Ramos Ramirez told The Associated Press Laurean stopped at a Zapopan liquor store on January 14 or 15, chatted briefly, then said he would return but never did. CNN reported Laurean briefly appeared near Guadalajara before authorities confirmed the flight.
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Mexico
Juan Antonio Ramos Ramirez
Associated Press
Laurean
Ramos Ramirez
CNN
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Guadalajara
United States
Lance Cpl
Maria Lauterbach
Reformists barred from running in Iran parliamentary election
More than two thousand reformers seeking democratic change in Iran were dis qualified from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, a top interior ministry official said Wednesday. The move narrows competition and strengthens hard-line factions allied with embattled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-vying for the presidency.
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Iran
Ali Reza Afshar
Interior Ministry
Afshar
The
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Arrest in border agent slaying linked to Mexico man
A 22 year old Mexican man sought in the United States for allegedly running down and killing U.S. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar has been arrested in Sonora. Mexican officials say Jesus Navarro Montes was captured after a three day joint manhunt. The incident began near Andrade California when Navarro allegedly fled federal officers in a drug laden Hummer and drove into Mexico while Aguilar attempted to stop him with a spike strip. The chase crossed into the Imperial Sand Dunes area near the California Arizona border.
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Jesus Navarro Montes
Mexico
Sonora
Navarro
Andrade
Calif
Luis Aguilar
Aguilar
Imperial Sand Dunes
California
Arizona
Palestinians breach Gaza border into Egypt at Rafah
Gazans flood into Egypt after militants blasted a seven mile border wall. They rush to stock up on scarce goods while Israel and the United States weigh the consequences of a freer border flow. Egypt faces security risks as weapon smuggling potential rises and Hamas ties draw scrutiny. The border chaos spurs calls for talks to revise Gaza access protocols and ease isolation amid ongoing regional tensions.
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Gaza Strip
Egypt
Israel
Hamas
United States
Gaza
Bush
Palestinian Authority
West Bank
Arye Mekel
Sinai
Hosni Mubarak
Cairo
Muslim Brotherhood
Foreign Ministry
Mahmoud Abbas
Fatah
Breakthrough helps transplant patients could free them from lifelong drugs
Doctors report a technique that weakens the patient’s immune system and uses donor bone marrow, with four of five kidney recipients off immune-suppressing medicines for up to five years. Experts caution this is not yet safe for current patients and require further testing. The study, funded by the Immune Tolerance Network, involved five kidney recipients from related donors.
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Los Angeles
David Sachs
Massachusetts General Hospital
Immune Tolerance Network
Sachs
Massachusetts General
Contact details for journal world staff and services list
A dense contact list for the Journal-World includes newsroom and department phone numbers for Local News City Government County Government KU Lawrence Schools Business Sports Arts and Entertainment Obituaries Photo Reprints Outside Lawrence plus editors and managers. Also provides subscription and delivery assistance with hours and redelivery guarantee.
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Kansas University
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What was it like when your class had a substitute
Wednesday's prompt asks readers to reflect on substitute teachers and learning. It notes student attentiveness varies from productive to chaotic and invites voting at ljworld.com. The poll asks how the weakening economy has affected individuals compared with a year ago, with a winner claiming being worse off.
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