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Melbourne's Birthday
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Tonight’s Top 10 Shows: Thursday, August 30

Thursday, August 30 “I can visit your Sydney, or your Melbourne, but I am not welcome in your bush.” The city of Melbourne turns 177 today. The Economist Group’s Intelligence Unit has named it “the world’s most livable city” for the past two years, so let’s not all ruin that by moving there at once. [...]

Great Fire of Rome
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Tonight’s Top 10 Shows: Thursday, July 19

Thursday, July 19 The Great Fire of Rome began on this date in the year 64 A.D. While the actual cause still remains a mystery, historians can agree that Nero did not “fiddle while Rome burned” as he was in Antium, approximately 30 miles away. Duets (ABC 8pm) After a final performance from contestants and [...]

Dolly the Cloned Sheep
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Tonight’s Top 10 Shows: Thursday, July 5

Thursday, July 5 On this date in 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned, was born. She was named Dolly because the cell from which her DNA was extracted came from a mammary gland, and the scientists involved “couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.” That’s [...]

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Tonight’s Top 10 TV Shows, Thurs., June 14

Thursday, June 14th On June 14th, 2000, a mail clerk named Andrew Cohen flounced into the Bravo programming director’s office to deliver a package. Interrupting an impromptu strategy session, Cohen opined that “the peforming arts are dead,” and that “people want the organic drama of reality television!” One closed door meeting and an energetic blow [...]