| UK Local Elections 2008 (event) | by aneurin | Within the United Kingdom the elections for various local authorities take place on the first Thursday in May every year, although each year a different mix of seats comes up for election. As far as the 2008 elections were concerned there were 4,059 seats at stake in 159 local councils across England and Wales, representing seats that had last been contested in 2004, although there was also some new unitary authorities in Northumberland, County Durham, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and ...
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| Kansas City Royals (thing) | by Phyrkrakr | Major League Baseball franchise, currently a part of the Central Division of the American League.
The Royals were founded in 1969 as part of Major League Baseball's explosive growth period, when from 1962 to 1972 eight new teams were founded and four others changed locations (including two of the expansion teams). The Royals joined the newly created AL West for the 1969 season under the ownership of pharmaceutical magnate Ewing Kauffman.
The newly...
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| Friends who fuck (event) | by Choked Chicken | I told her where I was from the beginning:
"I want you, but not at the expense of my life."
Somehow she valued this as honesty and gave herself to me -
generously, completely - and I drank deeply of her. Friends for years,
we found ourselves wrapped around each other, naked, vulnerable,
guilty as sin.
I wonder how this has changed us, changed me? How naive was I to
believe that "...
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| Chicken stuffed with avocado and havarti (recipe) | by Meldon | Though this recipe takes rather more preparation than my last one, it can still be made without too much fuss, and the results are excellent. My fiancée and I made this for my family today, and everyone loved it. This is the first time I'd cooked avocados for so long, and I wasn't sure how they'd respond, but they retained all their color and only got a little softer. As with most recipes, you should feel free to change things to suit your own taste, though I would request that you...
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| afterimage (thing) | by Simulacron3 | Afterimages are a class of visual phenomena in which some aspect of an image persists after the visual stimulus for the image ceases. In simpler words, we continue to see something that is not there anymore. When the afterimages are strong and persistent enough to be considered a medical problem, they are called palinopsia. There are basically two types of true afterimage, negative and positive.
The positive afterimage is like a positive photograph; it has the same...
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| May 6, 2008 (person) | by Lucy-S | I want to tell you all something, but I can't, not yet, and so I'll tell you something else.
I'm almost there. The things I've been working toward the past decade are finally coming together. I'm close to starting a new life as the person I've wanted to be my whole life.
It took me longer than I thought it would. I guess ...
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