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Royal Princess Cruise Ship Features – See the Royal Princess cruise ship features in the video tour below that gives you a great idea of what this beautiful ship looks like and what it has to offer.

The Royal Princess cruise ship features are amazing and the new ship will have its maiden voyage in June 2013. Royal Princess is now the largest ship, both in length, tonnage, number of passengers (3600) in the Princess fleet by a small margin over it’s sister ships Caribbean, Crown, Emerald and Ruby Princess.

The Royal will be one of the most beautiful cruise ships sailing the Mediterranean, where it will be for part of the year and then cruising the Caribbean the remainder of the year. Many innovative features, unique to exclusive cruise ships, will delight passengers on this elegant addition to the Princess fleet.

An adults only pool with private cabanas on the upper deck, the SeaWalk, extending from the ships top deck and the SeaView Bar on the outside of the ship will both have glass floors, signature features of the Princess Cruise Royal Princess. Another pool will be the largest ever on any Princess ship and will feature an evening water and light show.

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Holland America Cruises/European Cruise Sweepstakes – Enter to win the Holland America Cruises/European Cruise Sweepstakes by simply by filling out the entry form online.

Someone will win the free Holland America Cruises/European Cruise Sweepstakes and it could be you and you could win the exciting 7- to 11-day Europe cruise for two 2012–2013 sweepstakes, when you go online at Holland America and enter the contest.

When you win, you will beEuropean cruising as the guest of Holland America. No purchase of any kind is needed to enter the contest, so if you would like to take a free cruise, enter this website contest and you could be cruising for free on a 7 to 11 day cruise.

So get your passport ready and imagine yourself on a luxury european cruise. Enter now at www.enterhal.com and good luck, and let us know if you would like to win this trip or have cruised in Europe.

The contest runs until March 31, 2013 ad is open to residents of the United States and Canada that are over 18 years old. The approximate value of the winners cruise is $5,000 (USD).

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Best Dividend Stocks To Own - Our best dividend stocks to own are based on historical and current returns, held by many investors, that are a good mix of different sector stocks,  that will do well through thick or thin.

The best dividend stocks to own let you sleep at night even though the per share value of the stock might move up or down.

Over the years these highest yielding stocks have turned investors into wealthy investors. A healthy yield and a good steady dividend add together to give you a solid consistent return on your investment dollars.

Studies of Wall Street gurus can’t give you a better list of stocks to buy right now. Do your research and always be knowledgeable and comfortable with the stocks you own and know why you own them and have a plan for getting out of any stock when the story changes.

Here is the list of stocks with their yearly dividend per share and yield.

• ACNC – American Capital Agency              $5.00,  16.3%
• KMP – KINDER MORGAN ENERGY         $4.64,  5.20%
• IBM – IBM CORP                                             $3.00,  1.5%
• MTB – M&T BANK                                          $2.80.  3.4%
• MCD – MCDONALDS                                    $2.80,  2.8%
• GSK – GLAXO SMITH KLINE                     $2.65,  5.9%
• COP – CONOCO PHILLIPS                          $2.64,  3.5%
• MMM – 3M                                                        $2.36,  2.7%
• NLY – ANNALY CAPITAL MGMT             $2.28,  13.7%
• UPS – UNITED PARCEL SERVICE            $2.28,  3.0%
• JNJ  - JOHNSON & JOHNSON                $2.28,  3.5%
• PG  -  PROCTER & GAMBLE                      $2.10,  3.2%
• KO   – COCA COLA                                        $2.04,  2.9%

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