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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 30, 2012

  The financial meltdowns and catastrophes in Europe continue to mount. This past Friday, Spanair, Spain’s fourth-largest airline, collapsed without warning. An estimated 23,000 people were left stranded in various parts of the world after at least 200 Spanair flights were cancelled. The Spanish government is reportedly going to take legal action against the airline [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 29, 2012

  Mother Nature’s magnificent, humbling light show — the massive solar storms and sun flares this past week have produced brilliantly, strangely colorful skies in the northern regions of Earth unlike those seen for a number of years. Reported by The Telegraph: Stargazers were given an extraordinary treat after the beautiful Northern Lights made a [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | January 15, 2012

Wine Bottles – Wide View by Julie Gentry   According to a new report, US consumers drank the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine this past year, making it the world’s Number 1 consumer of wine. While China surpassed the United Kingdom for bottles of wine consumed, the British still drink more wine per [...]

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