Information about January 14, 2004
- J.P. Morgan Chase strikes a $58 billion merger deal to buy Bank One to create the second-largest bank in the United States.
- Iraq and weapons of mass destruction: Tests performed by American and Danish military experts indicate no chemical agents are present in the "suspicious" mortar shells discovered in Iraq on January 9th. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20040114/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mortar_shells_9
- Self-confessed killer of Swedish FM Anna Lindh, 25 year old Mijailo Mijailovic, says during cross-examination in a Stockholm court that he heard voices in his head commanding him to attack Lindh when he encountered her in a Stockholm shopping mall 10 September last year. Lindh died the next day from the many stab wounds she received. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3396409.stm
- Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan said, "It's just a matter of time before we begin to see employment start to pick up quite significantly, as it always has in the past." Greenspan is also not worried about the fall of the dollar or the half trillion dollar U.S. trade deficit. http://www.washtimes.com/business/20040113-113126-4771r.htm
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
- Reem El-Reyashi, a Palestinian suicide bomber, kills four border guards at the Erez Crossing. She is the first female suicide bomber used by Hamas. Four months before, Israel targeted Hamas leadership, including Ahmed Yassin, as a result Hamas halted all suicide bombing for four months.[1]
- Jack Kelley, USA TODAY foreign correspondent and a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize just two years ago, was forced to resign after the newspaper determined he repeatedly misled editors during an internal investigation into stories he wrote. Among the stories that are being investigated is one published Sept. 4, 2001, contains an account of an attack on Palestinians by 13 Jewish settlers in the West Bank. Mark Memmott, the reporter asked to investigate Kelley, said he could not find anyone with first-hand knowledge of the attack.[2]
- A secondary school student in the Netherlands kills a teacher in his school cafeteria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3394831.stm
- Greek electronic game ban: Greek police raid Internet cafés in Larissa. 80 computers are taken by the police as evidence and 3 Internet café owners are arrested. http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=508793&lngDtrID=252 (in Greek).
- Education in Greece: 114 University professors sign a document against George Papandreou's positions on private universities and their recognition (anagnorisi). http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=508745&lngDtrID=244 (Greek)
- Jacques Delors referred to Prime Minister of Greece Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker, and former Prime Minister of Belgium Jean Luc Dehaene as the top three candidates for the position of the President of the European Commission. http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=427305
- A 45-year old Sudanese man travelling from Washington Dulles International Airport to airport Dubai is arrested en route at London's Heathrow Airport on suspicion of carrying 5 bullets in his coat pocket. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3396667.stmhttp://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/7708240.htm
- U.S. President George W. Bush, in a speech at NASA headquarters, announces a plan to develop a new space vehicle to return humans to the moon by the year 2015 and proposes the retirement of the space shuttle fleet by 2010 along with a $1 billion funding increase for NASA. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040114-3.html
- Enron Corporation: Former CFO Andrew Fastow and his wife Lea Fastow, former Assistant Treasurer, accept a plea agreement. Andrew Fastow will serve a ten-year prison sentence and forfeit $23.8 million. Lea Fastow will serve a five-month prison sentence and a year of supervised release, including five months of house arrest. Both will provide testimony against other Enron corporate officers. http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/4319468.html
- Turkey and Greece: 22 Turkish military aircraft entered into the Greek Athens FIR. 5 of these aircraft were loaded with ammunition. Greek aircraft intercepted them. Source: Athens News Agency and in.gr. http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=508975&lngDtrID=244 (Greek)
- Noted author d.g.k. goldberg passed away after a long and hard-fought battle with brain tumors and lung cancer.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Public (NYSE: JPM , TYO: 8634 )
Founded 1799
Headquarters New York City, USA
Key people Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President & CEO
Industry Finance and Insurance
Products Financial Services
Revenue US$99.
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Public (NYSE: JPM , TYO: 8634 )
Founded 1799
Headquarters New York City, USA
Key people Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President & CEO
Industry Finance and Insurance
Products Financial Services
Revenue US$99.
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Bank One Corporation, based in Chicago, Illinois, was the sixth-largest bank in the United States. It traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock symbol ONE. The company was acquired by JPMorgan Chase & Co. on July 1, 2004.
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bank is a commercial or state institution that provides financial services , including issuing money in various forms, receiving deposits of money, lending money and processing transactions and the creating of credit.
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Discussion of Iraq and weapons of mass destruction concerns the Iraqi government's use, possession, and alleged intention of acquiring more types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) during the presidency of Saddam Hussein.
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mortar is a muzzle-loading indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It typically has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber.
A mortar is relatively simple and easy to operate.
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A mortar is relatively simple and easy to operate.
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January 9 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
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Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957–11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her murder in 2003. She previously served as Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1998.
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Stockholms stad
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Stockholms stad
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Location of Stockholm in northern Europe
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A hallucination is a perception in the absence of a stimulus that is believed to be genuine, ie. the subject experiences an imaginary stimulus as being real. A pseudohallucination is similar to an hallucination in all respects except that of absolute belief in the authenticity of
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September 10 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 506 - The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
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Federal Reserve System
Seal The Federal Reserve System Eccles Building (Headquarters)
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Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926 in New York City) is an American economist and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006.
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an ongoing dispute between the State of Israel and Arab Palestinians. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is part of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha'ab il-filastini), Palestinians (Arabic:
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A suicide attack is an attack on a military or civilian target, in which an attacker intends to kill others, and knows that they will either certainly or most likely die in the process (see suicide).
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Erez Crossing (Hebrew: מעבר ארז) is a pedestrian/cargo terminal on the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. It is located in the northern end of the Gaza Strip.
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Though the majority of suicide bombers have been male, female suicide bombers have carried out a number of attacks since 1985.
The first known suicide attack by a woman was carried out in Lebanon on April 9, 1985.
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The first known suicide attack by a woman was carried out in Lebanon on April 9, 1985.
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Hamas (Arabic: حركة حماس; acronym: Arabic: حركة المقاومة
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Anthem
Hatikvah
The Hope
Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem
Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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Hatikvah
The Hope
Capital
(and largest city) Jerusalem
Official languages Hebrew, Arabic
Demonym Israeli
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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin ( - 2004 ( 0 years old) ) (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد ياسين
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The paper's December 30, 2003 front page
Type Daily newspaper
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3037/2002 which effectively banned all electronic games, including those running on home computers. The bill was formulated after a member of the ruling PASOK socialist party was videotaped in an illegal gambling establishment, resulting in public hysteria that was fueled by
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Δημοτικό Σχολείο (Demotic School or Primary School) Year 1, age 5 to 7
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George Papandreou, see George Papandreou, senior.
Georgios Andreas Papandreou (Greek: Γιώργος Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου) (born June 16, 1952),
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Georgios Andreas Papandreou (Greek: Γιώργος Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου) (born June 16, 1952),
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Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the only person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission (between 1985 and 1995).
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A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician.
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos
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Ελευθερία ή θάνατος
Eleftheria i thanatos
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Konstantinos Simitis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Σημίτης) (born June 23, 1936), usually referred to as Costas Simitis
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"Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn" (Luxembourgish)
"We want to remain what we are"
Anthem
Ons Hémécht
"Our Homeland"
Royal anthem
De Wilhelmus 1
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"Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn" (Luxembourgish)
"We want to remain what we are"
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Ons Hémécht
"Our Homeland"
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De Wilhelmus 1
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