 The
Bre-X mining scandal was a massive 1990s fraud involving a
fake gold deposit in Busang, Indonesia. Calgary,
Canada-based Bre-X Minerals claimed to have found one of the
world's largest gold deposits, causing stock prices to soar
from pennies to nearly $300CAD in 1996. It was revealed that
engineers salted core samples with gold, causing the company
to collapse in 1997, taking individual investors, mutual
funds, and retirement pension plans with them.
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The ''No
Kings'' nationwide protests, scheduled for Saturday, March
28, 2026 already have 3,000 community events planned in all
50 states and every U.S. congressional district. That
surpasses the last No Kings protest in October, which drew
seven million people for the one-day event, by several
hundred locations, and organizers are hoping to have twelve
million attendees. This woman will be there to say she hates
Donald Trump, but can't explain why.
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 In
the Wild West, it was hard for some heroes to go it alone.
These dynamic duos of the screen, like the Lone Ranger and
Tonto and Butch and Sundance, or even a real cowboy duo,
like Gene Autry, with his singing sidekick Roy Rogers, show
us that when it comes to riding high, it's often better to
have someone with you. Read about some of the favorite
cowboy duos from TV and movies in this article. They forgot
about Red Ryder and Little Beaver, two of my favorites. More |
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 ''Afoot and light-hearted I take
to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long
brown path before me leading wherever I choose.'' - Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
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