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...HUPD observed an individual yelling in front of 64 Louis Prang St. in Boston that there was a fire in the building. The officers noticed smoke coming from the second floor of the building and the Boston Police Department (BPD) and Boston Fire Department were called in to extinguish the fire...
Americans entered into this pattern of yuletide dissimilitude largely through the effort of a Prussian-born engraver named Louis Prang. Often dubbed the "father of the American Christmas card," Prang started manufacturing cards for the American market in 1875. The practice of exchanging greeting cards with holiday newsletters during Christmas time quickly became popular, as it remains so to this day. While as early as the 1840s some Americans were already sending out cards, the custom grew greatly with Prang’s efforts...
...argue that e-cards are an insensitive way to tell people about something as grave and personal as HIV and can be abused by pranksters wanting to play jokes. "What if you're vulnerable emotionally, and you get a surprise [HIV] e-mail?" asks West Hollywood city councilman Jeffrey Prang. "Maybe the computer at your office or home isn't secure." Still, compared with the risks of ignorance, those might be chances worth taking...
...Song, two miles from the Cambodian frontier. Since then the province has been cut off from the rest of the country except by air. Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital. Some 4,000 North Vietnamese are entrenched near by at Bu Prang, an advance outpost lost by the South Vietnamese at a cost of 150 killed and missing...
...Nghia has been stalled to the north of Dak Song. Streams of UH-1 (Huey) helicopters, laden with troops, take off from the provincial capital only to return half an hour later because they cannot penetrate the low clouds and land in the combat zone. The loss of Bu Prang was a bitter blow to ARVN because it lies astride the new infiltration route stitched together by the North Vietnamese since the cease-fire and running from the DMZ along the western rim of South Viet Nam. The military insists that the province will not fall. Others...