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Chuck Norris is AWESOME!!

When the boogeyman goes to sleep at night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
There are no steroids in baseball, only players Chuck Norris has breathed on.
Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law & Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
Chuck Norris once shot down a German fighter plane, with his finger by yelling "BANG!"
When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and read to attack. Chuck Norris has never had to pay taxes. EVER!
When Chuck Norris pees he welds metal.
When Chuck Norris pees he clogs the toilet.
Chuck Norris went to the Virgin Islands, now they're just called the Islands.

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...that Super Typhoon Chanchu of 2006 was only the second super typhoon recorded in the South China Sea?
...that Ukrainian politician Mykola Tomenko is also an Afghan war veteran and a noted historian?
...that Domenico Gabrielli, one of the first composers to write solo music for the violoncello, was himself a virtuoso cello player and earned himself the Italian dialect nickname Minghino dal viulunzeel among his contemporaries?
...that Rodney J. Baxter, known for the Yang-Baxter equation in statistical mechanics, was the first doctoral graduate in theoretical physics from the Australian National University?
...that Dominican baseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in 1952, hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
...that John Romero (pictured) is about to make you his bitch?

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Students protest outside the British embassy in Tehran, Iran (flag pictured) in response to the ongoing dispute over captured Royal Navy personnel.
Michael Phelps breaks five world records in swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships; seven other records are broken as well.
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks receives the first sentence from the Guantanamo military commission, and the first conviction in a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the presidential election in Mauritania.
The Liberal Party under Premier Jean Charest loses 28 seats in the National Assembly and forms the first minority government in Quebec in 129 years.

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April 2: Passover begins at sunset (Judaism, 2007); Malvinas Day in Argentina.

1792 - By the Coinage Act, the United States Mint was founded and the U.S. currency was decimalised.
1801 - British forces led by Horatio Nelson defeated the Dano-Norwegian fleet in the Battle of Copenhagen.
1956 - As the World Turns premiered on U.S. television as the first half-hour serial drama.
1982 - Argentine special forces invaded the Falkland Islands, sparking the Falklands War.
1992 - John Gotti (pictured), the crime boss of the Gambino crime family, was convicted of racketeering, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, loansharking, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling and tax evasion.

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The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum is a covered square designed by the architects Foster and Partners. It opened in December 2000 and is the largest covered square in Europe. The roof is a glass and steel construction with 1,656 pairs of uniquely shaped glass panes. At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room, which is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there.

Photo credit: Andrew Dunn
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