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The Commonwealth Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Held every four years, it involves the elite athletes of the Commonwealth of Nations. Attendance at the Commonwealth Games is typically around ...

Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Caledonia. Norfolk Island is a self-governing territory and is part of the British Commonwealth. The population ...

The VCU Rams Men's Basketball team competes in the Colonial Athletic Association in the NCAA. The Rams have won over 30 conference championships. VCU has hosted ten NCAA championship ...

The Commonwealth is a voluntary group of 53 sovereign nations from around the world. Following the principles of the Singapore Declaration and the Harare Declaration, the countries work together to ...

Lesotho is only one of three remaining monarchies in Africa, it is a landlocked country that is completely surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is a member of ...

Mauritius, officially known as the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean. It is situated nearly nine hundred ...

The documentary, Saving Marriage, chronicles the fight between those who support and those who oppose same sex marriage in Massachusetts. In 2004, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts became the first in ...

Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo is a Bishop in the Catholic church, assigned to oversee the Diocese of Richmond in Virginia. In July 2008, DiLorenzo came under fire for knowingly allowing ...