Sean Quinn was only deposed in April 2011 - years after the fateful bet.

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The 25-year-old iconic singer was back on the stage in an unprecedented live performance, 15 years after that fateful September night when he was gunned down just off of the Las Vegas Strip.

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That was some years before her fateful meeting with the Prince of Wales at the University of St.

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This means that each day millions of Americans travel across bridges that experienced bridge engineers would acknowledge are in jeopardy of failing just like the I-35W did on that fateful day four years ago.

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Two years later, 2013 is shaping up to be that fateful time in the Canadian-born star's career.

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Movies about intertwined lives often suffer from the gimmick that's supposed to sustain them: Two examples of recent years, "Crash" and "Babel, " piled on fateful connections to the point of self-parody.

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