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September 4, 2008
Topics club, police, motorcycle, man, casino, bar, medical, california, dead, house, people and head
A man killed in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood earlier this week has been identified by the medical examiner as the president of the San Francisco branch of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, authorities said. San Fransisco Police Department investigators say that Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46, was the person found shot at about 10:30 p. m. Tuesday outside a bar in the city's Mission District about a mile from the group's club house in the Dogpatch neighborhood. Guardado died a short time later at a local hospital.
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March 24, 2008
Anna Falco, a 53-year old woman from Woodbridge, won the jackpot at the Casino Rama, allowing her to celebrate Easter wealthier by $8. 7 million. Falco bet $2. 93 each spin to get the jackpot and she had already spent $195 when she made the hit of a lifetime.
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January 1, 2008
Australian Robbie Maddison broke Monday night the world record for the longest motorcycle jump at an exhibition at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel. Maddison leapt 322 feet, 7˝ inches (98. 34 meters), easily breaking the Guinness World Records of 277 feet and 6 inches (84. 58 meters) set by Trigger Gumm in 2005 in Australia. It also beat Ryan Capes's non-certified mark of 310 feet and 4 inches (94. 59 meters). Capes, a native of Kent, Washington, set the unofficial record also in 2005.
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December 25, 2007
Egypt's parliament is set to pass a law that requires payment of royalties for exact replicas of its ancient pyramids in every country. The proposed law announced by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on Tuesday also prohibits the duplication of the Egyptian monuments, including the Sphinx. Drawings and other reproductions of pharaonic and Egyptian monuments from all eras are exempted from the law if they are not exact copies.
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December 2, 2007
acau casino mogul and billionaire Stanley Ho bid a staggering $330,000 for a giant white truffle at auction Saturday, beating the offers of U. K. -based artist Damien Hirst and Sheik Mansoor Bin Zayed al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi. The truffle, weighing 1. 5 kilograms, is now considered the world's biggest besting the 1. 29-kg truffle found in Croatia in 1999, which holds the Guinness World Record.
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