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Happy 800th Anniversary, Cambridge!

by kristengill
( January 17th, 2009 )

Now that is OLD. Makes my upcoming milestone birthday seem like fiddlesticks in comparison!

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In honor of the anniversary, I thought I’d share some photos that I took from a fairly recent trip there (2006), and also point out some interesting …

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The World’s Game Comes to Seattle

by kristengill
( April 8th, 2008 )

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(Seattle, Washington) Seattle will have its own Major League Soccer team starting in 2009. Woohoo! The new name was unveiled today during a news conference at the Space Needle, and will officially be called Seattle Sounders FC.

In a rare show of democracy in sports, the new …

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World Championships of Irish Dancing

by kristengill
( March 31st, 2008 )

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(Belfast, Northern Ireland) The World Championships of Irish Dance, which this year took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has just wrapped up. While many people in America associate Irish dancing with The Lord of the Dance-type spectacles, Irish dancing has been alive and well for decades before …

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