In Portland, Karen Willis Beal got her dream wedding on Saturday complete with a snowstorm just like the one that hit before her parents married in December 1970.

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As you can see this is not a place of fantastic design but given that you have access to pictures like the one taken from Apollo 13 just before the side of the command module blew away after an explosion - who needs fantastic design?

BBC: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

All of them had been contacted just one day before and asked if they would like to stand behind the President, and several said it had been a hectic but exciting 24 hours.

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To offer one analogy, just imagine what transportation was like in this country back in the 1920s and 1930s before the Interstate Highway System was built.

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For one reason, like with JC Penney, it invites customers to wonder just how poorly priced the products were before the promise.

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