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Okay long time freepers, I need some help it it will come from someone that has been here at least 6 years. There was a list graphic on a thread that showed approx. 15 congressmen and it had on it each pol's Net worth when elected and Net worth after 4+ years. It was a staggering list that showed you just how much money gets paid to our supposed servants that serve us. On top of the list was a congress woman (this is no lie) who came in with a net worth in just 6 figures and I believe...

Explanation: Sungrazing Comet ISON reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, yesterday, November 28, at 18:45 UT. The comet passed just over 1 million kilometers above the solar surface, a distance less than the diameter of the Sun. These two panels follow ISON before (right) and after its close approach, imaged by the LASCO instrument onboard the Sun staring SOHO spacecraft. Overwhelming sunlight is blocked by LASCO's central occulting disk with a white circle indicating the Sun's positon and scale. The bright comet is seen along its path at the bottom of the before panel, but something much fainter...

Click on the links below to see some incredible before and after images of the beach area of Kalutara, Sri Lanka. The images are high-resolution QuickBird satellite images featuring the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. The before imagery was collected in January 2004 and the after imagery approx 4 hours after earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.

Massive Old Star Reveals Secrets On Deathbed Composite by Richard Sword, IoA/Gemini Observatory GMOS images, except right inset by Isaac Newton Telescope Full-resolution Images Like a doctor trying to understand an elderly patient's sudden demise, astronomers have obtained the most detailed observations ever of an old but otherwise normal massive star just before and after its life ended in a spectacular supernova explosion.Imaged by the Gemini Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) less than a year prior to the gigantic explosion, the star is located in the nearby galaxy M-74 in the constellation of Pisces. These observations allowed a...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryMarch 1, 2003 Radio Address by the President to the Nation      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. America is determined to enforce the demands of the United Nations Security Council by confronting the grave and growing danger of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction. This dictator will not be allowed to intimidate and blackmail the civilized world, or to supply his terrible weapons to terrorist groups, who would not hesitate to use them against us. The safety of the American people depends on ending this threat. But America's cause is always larger than...