Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday afternoon as the nation's 111th Supreme Court justice and the first Hispanic on the court, a historic moment for the nation's fastest-growing minority group. On a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate confirmed Sotomayor, 55, after roughly 18 hours of official debate spread across three days this week, a show of support that included nine Republican 'aye' votes and 59 from the Democratic side of the aisle. All 31 votes against Sotomayor came from Republicans. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/08/06/ST2009080602601.html
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/08/senate-confirms-sotomayor-for-supreme.php

UI makes WSJ
"It makes me angry to think that someone who didn't put in the hours or work as hard as me has my spot," said John Suo, who earned a 4.0 grade-point average at Naperville Central High School outside Chicago but was rejected by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's business school.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124951741117909487.html

An historical map in downtown Naperville, Illinois in front of the Nichols Library was dedicated on June 22, 1986 on the corner of Webster Street and Jackson Avenue. The bronze map is imbedded in the brick paver sidewalk, and was created by sculptors Gregg Le Fevre and Matthew Schneider of Boston, as a result of a gift to the Library by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Moser.” The map is made up of 36 bronze squares, weighing almost 100 pounds each. The map is a past-present-future-topographical map of Naperville.
Naperville Sun, June 20, 1986 and June 25, 1986
Nichols Library
Naperville Public Library
Naperville's Neighborhood of Knowledge

How to find a county: http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County
I used it to find the county for Pulaski, Virginia, then wondered if that county was in the Shenandoah Valley, finding the list of nine counties here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XNme2mvk8RQC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22new+river%22+%22shenandoah+valley%22&source=bl&ots=dcT71rRbFH&sig=_S9NQ591tjrl7zUZ7si4WRIYTfw&hl=en&ei=HcN6Sqq9OIGANsTtneIC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=%22new%20river%22%20%22shenandoah%20valley%22&f=false

According to a report in The Sofia Echo, archaeologists Nikolai Ovcharov and Hitko Vachev have excavated on August 2 what has been described as the grave of a Bulgarian princess, buried in the courtyard of the St. Peter and Pavel church in Veliko Tarnovo.
The two archaeologists have concluded that the grave dates back to the 14th century or earlier, sometime after the reign of Tsar Ivan Assen II. The princess was found wearing “luxurious clothes trimmed with golden ribbon; excellently crafted jewelry; a golden ring, earrings, silver and golden pins were also found around the buried body”.
Archaeologists have discovered over 100 artifacts since excavation work commenced two months ago at the St. Peter and Pavel as well as St. Ivan Rilski churches in Veliko Turnovo. http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-85860.html

Rumors spreading for 34 years—FCC receives millions of inquiries
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/enf/forms/rm-2493.html

A 1975 rumor updated with new names: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/petition-number-2493.shtml

Individuals spread rumors for a variety of reasons: because they find a story humorous, because they believe the rumor is true and want to be a Good Samaritan. To some extent, the definition of what constitutes a rumor can be as nebulous as
the substance of the rumor itself. Folklorists and sociologists are conflicted on the distinction between contemporary legend and rumor. Under a common-sense division, narratives that are directed against specific individuals or institutions are more appropriately analyzed as rumors. Internet rumors circulate by two primary methods: via forwarded e-mails passed along from person to person or on web sites or electronic bulletin boards accessed by individuals seeking information on a specific topic. Forwarded e-mails are easily identifiable as rumors and can be evaluated as such by recipients. The use of web sites or electronic bulletin boards to spread rumors is more problematic, because these methods of transmission closely resemble legitimate information sources. http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/255/Daly,_Karen.rtf

Consumer tips: avoiding scams and crams
http://www.ripoffreport.com/consumer_resources.asp

Mutt and Jeff (mut uhn jef) noun
A pair of people having dramatically different characteristics, such as height
After Mutt and Jeff, comic strip characters of the same name, created by cartoonist Harry "Bud" Fisher (1885-1954). The strip originated in 1907 and its principal characters were tall Mutt and short Jeff. Both were lovable losers. The strip was wildly popular and inspired the idiomatic usage to refer to a pair of comically mismatched people. The term also applies to a pair of interrogators one of whom appears threatening while the other presents a sympathetic persona. The word is also used as a Cockney rhyming slang for 'deaf'. A.Word.A.Day