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Girl Power: Filly Rachel Alexandra makes history
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Girls rule! The best 3-year-old in the land just happens to be a filly named Rachel Alexandra.
Jockey Calvin Borel all but guaranteed victory in the Preakness Stakes and, boy, did she deliver, becoming the first filly in 85 years to win the second leg of the Triple Crown.
A rangy bay _ as big as most of the horses she beat _ Rachel Alexandra shot to the front Saturday and wasn't seriously challenged until a late close by Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird.
By beating him she ended any chance that thoroughbred racing would have a Triple Crown winner this season. Affirmed ...
 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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KING COUNTY.(News)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...returns with 99% of statewide and 100 of King County precincts reporting. In statewide...and congressional districts that include King County, the first line is the total vote and the second line is the King County vote. FEDERAL U.S. House of...
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King.com Predicts Crowdsourcing of Flash Games Will Rival Games Studios.
PR Newswire
; ...annual conference of the casual games industry, King.com's VP of Games Acquisitions and Advertising...and their in-house team. In the six months since King.com (http://www.king.com/), the world's leading online skill games...
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King County Turns on Verdiem and Reduces Energy Consumption by Nearly 40 Percent.
News Wire article from: Business Wire
; King County Achieving Goal of Reducing Greenhouse...with Help of PC Power Management Software; King County's Clean Energy Plan Recognized as Model for Nation SEATTLE -- As part of King County's nationally recognized initiatives...
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King's Fiery Speech Rarely Heard; Tapes Are Copyrighted; Schools Often Use Text
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...are taught about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech...It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids," said Robert Brown...American politics. "It is one thing to read King and another to see him. Hearing him is...
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KING'S LEGACY
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; Expect Martin Luther King III, who speaks at Roanoke College on Tuesday night...against it. "I definitely have to mention it," said King, son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., for whom today's holiday is named. "We...
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'King Hedley II' long on excellence: Wilson's latest effort set in Pittsburgh's Hill District
Newspaper article from: New Pittsburgh Courier
; `King Hedley II' long on excellence: Wilson...American struggle and determination with "King Hedley II." The play had its well-received...1985. The Greek tragedy tells a tale of how King, played by Tony Todd, tries to overcome...
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King was first a devoted pastor
Newspaper article from: Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
; MONTGOMERY, Ala. Martin Luther King Jr. led a nonviolent freedom movement...everything, virtually everything, that Dr. King achieved," Lewis Baldwin, professor...NewsWeekly." Baldwin has written widely on King's religion. As the nation prepares to...
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King's legacy weathers distractions; New book alleges extra-marital affairs by the civil rights hero
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...On the eve of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 77th birthday, his legacy is under attack and its greatest defender is unable to speak. King's widow, Coretta Scott King, is recovering from a stroke that partially paralyzed...
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KING
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News
; ...from getting what we ask for. Stephen King's `Constant Reader' howled for more...tale that tells it all. Fans of Stephen King's Dark Tower series knew this day would come. The publication last Tuesday - King's 57th birthday - of The Dark Tower VII...
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KING NEVER CAME TO ROANOKE, BUT HER INFLUENCE DID
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...Sharon Gentry had never met Coretta Scott King, but like many Americans, she knew her...manager for the city of Roanoke, knew that King perpetuated the ideals of racial justice espoused by her slain husband, Martin Luther King Jr. She also knew that the woman called...
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