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February 4, 2005

• Jamie Foxx and Hilary Swank won Best Male Actor and Best Female Actor at the 2004 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

February 3, 2005

• In USA, Ray Brent Marsh, former crematorium owner who left supposedly cremated corpses to decay, receives 12 years in prison. (WXIA-TV, GA) (http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=58262) (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4229947.stm)

February 2, 2005

• Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania sees its shadow, and predicts six more weeks of winter for North America. Wiarton Willie disagrees, however. (Groundhog.org) (http://www.groundhog.org), (Scotsman.com) (http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4080940), (Newsday) (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usphil0203,0,1515659.story?coll=ny-top-headlines), (CBC) (http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/02/02/groundhogs050202.html)

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