The September 11 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.[1][2] The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, causing both buildings to collapse within two hours, destroying at least two nearby buildings and damaging others. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane, which was heading for Washington, D.C. There are no known survivors from any of the flights.

Salvia is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is one of three genera commonly referred to as sage. When used without modifiers, sage generally refers to common sage (Salvia officinalis); however, it can be used with modifiers to refer to any member of the genus. This genus includes approximately 700 to 900 species of shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals with almost world-wide distribution. The center of diversity and origin appears to be Central and South Western Asia. Different species of sage are grown as herbs and as ornamental plants. The ornamental species are commonly referred to by their scientific name Salvia.

Espindola scored both goals in Real Salt Lake's 2-0 win over the Colorado Rapids in just his third game since missing two months with a knee injury. He had two other shots that just missed and a goal that was disallowed because of an offside call. "He's absolutely fantastic," Real coach Jason Kreis said. "When he's on, he scores goals and the team does well."

A surname, also known as a last name or family name, is a fixed name shared in common with the members of a family and is passed down from generation to generation.

The use of a surname is relatively new in history and was adopted in order to legally distinguish two individuals with the same first name.
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The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the plane perpendicular to the Earth's axis of rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass. In more simple language, it is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface approximately equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole that divides the Earth into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The equators of other planets and astronomical bodies are defined analogously.
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The Salton Sea is an inland saline lake, occupying the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink, part of the larger Colorado Desert in Southern California, USA, north of the Imperial Valley. The lake covers a surface area of approximately 376 square miles (974 km²), the largest in California. While it varies in dimensions and area due to changes in agricultural runoff and rain, it averages 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km), with a maximum depth of 51 feet (15.5 m), giving a total volume of about 7.5 million acre-feet (9.3 km³). Sea inflow averages 1.36 million acre-feet per year (53.2 m³/s).

The latest news showed that  a big earthquake took place on August 1st. The earthquake happened at 4 pm. I hope the 5.6 magnitude earthquake  didn't kill any person! The  epicentre was still unknown.
But people in Chendu Province could feel the strong wobble.
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The MLB trade deadline looms and the names just keep on coming. Don't believe the blather--Hank Steinbrenner throwing the media a bone by dropping Bonds name is a ploy. Balco Barry, in the Big Apple, to close out the House That Ruth Built, while brandishing his legendary people skills defies all logic.

Canberra rental prices continue to surge, with median weekly asking rents for houses and units up by 5 and 10 per cent respectively in the past year.
According to property information supplier Australian Property Monitors' latest report, the nation's main cities had a double-digit increase in rental costs over the past 12 months.