Valuable gold coin appears in Pa. donation kettle
December 15, 2011
The Evening Sun newspaper of Hanover reports (http://bit.ly/s2eFxm) a gold South African Krugerrand was discovered Wednesday in a kettle outside a Walmart near Gettysburg. The...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Montenegro
December 11, 2011
The owner of the Splendid hotel near Budva told AFP that Brad Pitt knows Montenegro from when he shot one of his first films'' The Dark Side of The Sun'' there in 1988.'' Brad...
13 charged in $ 19M Central Oregon bank fraud
December 15, 2011
A federal grand jury in Eugene returned five separate indictments on Thursday that charged the principals in Desert Sun Development and others with mortgage and loan fraud that...
Jews around the world to bless sun in rare ritual
November 15, 2011
The Birkat Hachamah, or Blessing of the Sun, marks the moment, according to some rabbinical scholars, when the sun returns to the spot in the sky it occupied during creation....
Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff
December 15, 2011
the Phoenix suburb of Sun City who did not speak English. The tip laid out no criminal allegations. The sheriff wrote back to thank the writer'' for the info,'' said he would...
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2 × 10 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. Less than 2% consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and others. The Sun's stellar classification, based on spectral...
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