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English in Jamaica – Is that really English?

Walk with me along the white coral beach, palm trees swaying in the tropical sea breeze as dust eddies dance across stretches of empty sand.Can you hear it? Reggae rhythms waft through the air amid smells of spicy pork roasting over the red glow of charcoal grills.Stick around a little longer and you just might catch a whiff of spicy

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These are your rules, break them!

Congratulations on your promotion. Here's your cap and badge. I just made you head of a military fighting force. Bad news: it turns out that you are at war. Worse yet, you are up against a superior force.Now here's what's likely to happen based on the statistics: If your army is facing superior force in the conventional way, you have

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A Brief History of Alabama Football

Alabama Crimson Tide football is tied with Notre Dame and the University of Southern California for the most college football national championships of all time with a dozen. Needless to say, many of those titles were earned under the leadership of legendary Crimson Tide coach "Bear" Bryant.Bryant-Denny Stadium is named after former coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and former Alabama president

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France has game

September 25, 2000: The French national basketball team was in its final match in the preliminary round of Pool "A" of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Basketball Tournament. France sported a 2-2 record, beating China and New Zealand, but losing to Lithuania and Italy. And luckily, albeit badly, they faced off against the mighty Team USA, led by NBA superstars

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