Hurricane Katrina’s deluge was Biblical. When it hit Louisiana and Mississippi the morning of August 29, 2005, the storm caused fearsome destruction. Then the disaster grew worse. The levees – the man-made walls built to protect New Orleans from the water surrounding it – failed. Their collapse flooded 80 percent of the city. By the time the waters receded and the survivors regrouped, Katrina, and then Hurricane Rita, had claimed more than 1,400 lives and the dreams of hundreds of thousands.
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From bestselling Wicked authors Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie comes a new series: Crusade. In the first book in the series, the Cursed Ones, vampires, have declared war on humanity. Most people are too afraid or otherwise unwilling to take a stand. Others, like eighteen year old Jenn Leitner, train to become vampire fighters and risk everything in the process. Learn more about this book: http://bit.ly/aTDMCA Learn more about these authors: http:///www.nancyholder.com and http://www.debbieviguie.com YA
For the second straight year, State Farm and Major League Baseball (MLB) are giving fans from coast to coast the chance to deliver a big hit for their favorite charitable organization. Through the Go To Bat program, an online, charitable initiative driven by State Farm’s commitment to helping communities get to a better state, fans can support the causes that mean the most to them and take their shot at winning one of the $18,000 weekly donations for their favorite charity and a trip for two to the 2011 World Series.
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Carson Kressley is back with a new season of "How To Look Good Naked"! He'll once again be showing women how to go from self loathing to self loving. New season premieres Tuesday July 22nd at 10pm on LIFETIME!
Catch up on all the action from the first 10 episodes as 6 young music lovers travel around Europe to the summer’s biggest festivals and parties. But there's a twist…come late September, one will be dead, one will be a killer. Just Who Killed Summer?
It is dark, dirty and twisted. This is a vampire show with real bite and here it gets a little bit sexy. Catch the UK premiere, Fridays at 10pm from July 17th exclusively on FX.
Here is a man who lives for the rush he can get only from being hit by snowballs. The impact of a snowball sends him into paroxysms of purest ecstasy. He is hooked! He has to get that rush! The search for it drives him to extremes
School is out for the summer and for many teens playing video or online games is high on their activity list. According to a new survey from Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF), 56 percent of teens say they spend 30 minutes or more playing video or online games on average each day, with 18 percent spending over two hours gaming. The good news is that over half (58 percent) of teens say that the games they play are at least sometimes educational, and 76 percent of the young people polled believe that educational gaming is a great way for them to learn.
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iLand is more a destination than a game. When you get there navigate with the MOVE button, to move forward, backwards and side to side. To look around, use the ROTATE button, slide your finger from side to side and up to down depending what you want to see.
By the close of the 1942 season, Ted Williams became a fighter pilot and flight instructor in the U.S. Marine Corps, all through World War II. He served through 1945 and
making his return to the Red Sox in the Spring of 1946, Pushing the team to win the American League pennant and taking home the MVP award. Despite the fact the Red Sox lost
the World Series (the only one Williams played in) to the St. Louis Cardinals that year, Williams'spreeminenceas an outstanding hitter grewby leaps and bounds. He became known
as the Splendid Splinter and the Thumper, for his 6'3" rail-thin frame and his power behind the bat was also ca;lled the kid.
In 1947, Williams won his second Triple Crown but lost the MVP title to DiMaggio by only one vote, a slight by the sportswriters that Williams in no way forgot.
In 1949, he was voted American League MVP for the second time. In 1950, while having a momentous season, Williams fractured his elbow during the All-Star Game at
Comiskey Park in Chicago; he smashed into the wall while catching a fly ball. He finished that game, but the damage cost him more than sixty games, despite the fact
he played well during the games he did play. He hit .318 in 1951 but then went back into the military service in 1952 and 1953, for the duration of the Korean War.
After a crash landing of his fighter plane and a bout with pneumonia, he was sent back to the states. He announced his retirement from baseball in 1954 but then changed
his mind and stayed on with the Red Sox, because he would have been ineligible for Hall of Fame election on the first ballot if he quit too soon. He suffered a series of
injuries in the mid-1950s, but in 1957, at almost forty years old, he hit .388 and became the oldest player to ever win a batting championship. He hit .453 during the second
half of the season. Williams was more popular than ever before and finished second only to Mickey Mantle in MVP balloting. The following year, Williams batted .328,
still high enough to lead the league in batting. During this part of his career he won the nickname Teddy Ballgame, although his favorite nickname for himself
was always "The Kid."
