| Revelations from a rock star |
| Todd Rundgren has it backward. You're supposed to build on a debut of Top 40 hits with more Top 40 hits. Instead, he detoured into experimental albums. But his latest, "Arena," is straight-ahead rock anthems. |
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| 'Dark Knight' shines at People's Choice |
| "The Dark Knight" took home top honors at the People's Choice Awards, walking away with five awards. The movie won the award for favorite movie, favorite action movie, favorite cast, favorite on screen match-up (Christian Bale and Heath Ledger) and favorite superhero (Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman). |
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| Cardigans' singer on life after 'Lovefool' |
| The breathy vocals of Nina Persson helped launch The Cardigans onto the music scene in the 1990s. The band developed its dreamy pop sound in the Southern Swedish town of Malmo. |
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| New 'Idol' judge looking forward to challenge |
| When "American Idol" returns to Fox on January 13, Kara DioGuardi will become a fourth judge to Randy, Paula, and Simon. It's a job that requires a distinct dearth of sweetness, and a certain amount of, for lack of a better term, Simon Cowell-ness. |
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| Oprah's gurus on her struggle |
| CNN's Larry King spoke Tuesday evening with a team of fitness and health experts about Oprah Winfrey's latest bout with weight gain, and they reveal how she's fighting back. |
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| Gamers prove their metal as rock stars |
| Jess Hu is a child care provider from Brooklyn, New York, but for 20 hours a week, she's a rock star. That's how much she estimates she plays the video game "Rock Band." |
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| Comedian is living in an Ikea store |
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| Texas town hopes to become UFO landing spot |
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| Governor's son sells 'Don't Drop the Soap' |
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| Cops snag lotto ticket from accused drug dealer |
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| US President Woodrow Wilson Introduces His Fourteen Points (1918) |
| Wilson presented his Fourteen Points, a program intended to lay the foundation for peace in Europe after WWI, to the US Congress in 1918. The idealistic message laid the groundwork for the creation of the League of Nations. It successfully encouraged the Central Powers to yield, and thus became the basis for the terms of Germany's surrender. Opposition to the points quickly crystallized, however, and the subsequent treaty between Germany and the Allies laid the seeds for what future conflict? |
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| Leaning Tower of Pisa Begins Decade-Long Closure (1990) |
| The Leaning Tower is the freestanding bell tower of a cathedral in Pisa, Italy. Though designed to stand upright, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after construction began in 1173. In 1964, Italy's government enlisted the aid of a multinational task force to prevent the tower from toppling. After more than 20 years of work, the tower was closed to the public in 1990. It underwent another decade of stabilization efforts before being reopened in 2001. What first caused it to lean? |
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| King Henry VIII Marries Fourth Wife (1540) |
| Henry VIII, a monarch famed for having married six times, wed his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, in 1540. He found her entirely unattractive, privately describing her as a "Flanders Mare," and soon decided to annul the marriage. Anne wisely cooperated, testifying that their union had never been consummated. Just four years earlier, Henry had his second wife, Anne Boleyn, executed after she failed to produce a male heir. How was Henry's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, related to Anne Boleyn? |
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