Topic: Haiti

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74See all 33 photosThe right hand of a young visitor is silhouetted against a jellyfish exhibition hall at the Ocean Park aquarium-amusement complex in Hong Kong on January 20, 2008. Political resistance to outside aid and a slow response by the government ...

Aid from US sports continued to flow for earthquake-ravaged Haiti on Friday, with boxing promoter Top Rank pledging a share of ticket sales to relief efforts.Top Rank chief Bob Arum said the company would donate one dollar from every ticket it sells ...

Players unions, boxers, downhillers coming to Haiti's aid with donations, auctionsPlayers unions for the four major sports leagues have started a campaign to support the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund's relief efforts in the earthquake-stricken country.The " "Philadelphia 76ers center Sam Dalembert is ...

Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon received good news about relatives in Haiti on Thursday as Major League Baseball pledged one million dollars to the earthquake damage relief effort.Garcon, whose team is preparing for a National Football League playoff game Saturday against Baltimore, ...

Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon received good news about relatives in Haiti on Thursday as US sports leagues donated 1.1 million dollars to the earthquake damage relief effort.Garcon, whose team is preparing for a National Football League playoff game Saturday against Baltimore, ...

MLB donates $1 million to help victims of Haiti earthquakeMajor League Baseball says it is donating $1 million to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti.Commissioner Bud Selig said in a news release Thursday that the contribution is being made on behalf ...

Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon and other US athletes with family in Haiti watched and worried in the wake of the earthquake that has devastated their ancestral homeland. "Garcon wasn't the only US athlete waiting anxiously for news of family members in ...

Aspects of the topic history of Dominican Republic are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Two Cuban brothers brought baseball to the Dominican Republic in the 1880s, and Cubans, along with local nationals who had studied in the United States, introduced ...

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