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10 March 2019

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People from Rio de Janeiro are called Cariocans. Home Hardware has more than 1,100 stores nationwide and one in St. Pierre & Miquelon. Today in 1842 Halifax was incorporated as a city. Daylight Savings Time begins today in North America; the EU has abolished it. Homeowners are always ‘just’ coming out of the hardware store.  Only one in a million mined diamonds becomes jewellery.  On behalf of the Sovereign, 42 Crown corporations are administered by Ottawa.  Indoor tanning is illegal in New South Wales.  Today in 1978, Judy Cameron became Air Canada’s first female pilot. Royals have moved into the neighbourhood; they live Tudors down. A firstborn child is eager to learn while a second child wants to ‘win’. In 1939, Adolph Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Federal Government’s single largest annual expenditure is Old Age Pension benefits. Today in 1922, Gandhi was arrested and sentenced to a six-year ...