| Leonardo Da Vinci the inventor of the word "Flabbergasted" | ||||
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Leonardo Da Vinci was Flabbergasted himself many times according to his notes. Dan Brown the famous writer of the book "The Da Vinci Code" also referres several times to the word "flabbergasted". This hidden link in the book of books might refer to a website known as www.flabber.nl This dutch website has many hidden links to the mystrious word "flabbergasted". Language researches are still trying to solve a code found on this site. They think it might be another clue to a unfinished painting of Da vinci. |
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Alright the title is a little misleading, it was some type of glue that killed the thai man. A young Thai man with a history of moodiness has killed himself by gluing his mouth and nose shut with super glue. Bangkok police said the young man's body was found Thursday morning in his bedroom, apparently after suffocating overnight. They said a small amount of cash and a note saying "Here is all that I have, take what you please" were also found on the bed. The man's family told police he had argued with his sister Wednesday over some money she'd borrowed and not repaid. He went into his bedroom, where his body was found ten hours later. The man was attached to nothing else. |
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| Voice of Tiger and Piglet die after each other! | ||||
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So someone died, what else is new. Well two disney voices died one after another. Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger in Winnie the Pooh stories, has died at the age of 82. Winchell was also famous for being a ventriloquist and inventor. Winchell’s inventions include an artificial heart, a flameless cigarette lighter, and an invisible garter belt. John Fiedler, who is best known for providing the voice of Piglet in Winnie the Pooh movies and television shows, died Saturday at the age of 80. Fiedler was a veteran of movies, broadway and television. Maybe one voice called the other |
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| MAN POSTS HIMSELF HOME | ||||
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New questions are being asked about aviation security in America after a man packed himself in a crate and 'posted himself' back home. Charles McKinley shipped himself from New York to Dallas in an airline cargo crate. He was even delivered to the door of his parents house - and broke out of the box on the lawn. "My husband asked him, `Man, what are you doing in this crate?' He said he was coming home," his mother told KDFW-TV in Dallas. |
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| Tiger found in Harlem flat | ||||
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A US police sniper has accomplished a daring operation in an urban housing complex - sedating and removing a 350-pound (160 kg) Bengal tiger from a New York flat. | |||
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| Man Fined After Near-Naked Driving Death | ||||
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Man Fined After Near-Naked Driving Death FREDERICK, Md. -- A man who videotaped a bare-bottomed buddy during a motorcycle stunt that turned deadly was convicted of two misdemeanors and fined $1,000. |
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A 50,000-strong swarm of spider crabs gathered off a Melbourne beach this week, covering a stretch of seafloor the size of a football field and likely "scaring the hell" out of local fish, marine scientists said. | |||
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| How did the chicken cross the road? He didn't... | ||||
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Linc and Helena Moore may have finally learned the answer to that age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the chicken doesn't know jaywalking is illegal. | |||
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There may be a burglar with a conscience in Garfield County. A television, stereo, and VCR were stolen over the weekend from a house in the small town of Kremlin. Undersheriff Jerry Niles said the woman who lives at the house called deputies Monday night to say that someone broke into her house again while she was away, returned the electronics gear, even restoring the wiring and repairing a door jamb damaged in the original break-in. "It was spooky," Niles said. He said it was the first time he has ever seen all of the property taken in a burglary returned like that. Deputies are still investigating the case. |
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| Exploding Toads Puzzle German Scientists | ||||
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More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists have no explanation for what's causing the combustion. Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment. |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California prison officials ordered an end to using word puzzles as a substitute for guard training Friday after a state assemblyman questioned how finding hidden words such as elf, snow and gingerbread prepare officers to handle dangerous convicts. Guards at some prisons were being told they could complete nearly one-quarter of their annual training by doing word-search and crossword puzzles on the job. |
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| Two Hunters Die Together Of Apparent Heart Attacks | ||||
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WENATCHEE, Wash. -- Two friends on a turkey hunting jaunt together died from apparent heart attacks minutes apart from each other, the sheriff's office said. Elmer Sapp, 78, and Alfred Hurd, 70, both of East Wenatchee, were hunting together seven miles south of East Wenatchee on Monday when Hurd reportedly got out of a pickup truck and chased a bird down an embankment. Sapp followed and found his hunting partner lying on the ground with blood coming from his head, according to Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum. |
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| Skydiver dies after legs severed in midair | ||||
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DeLAND, FLORIDA -- A skydiving cinematographer was killed after his legs were severed in a midair collision with the airplane he had jumped from, authorities said. Albert "Gus" Wing III, 50, had deployed his parachute Saturday when he struck the left wing of the DHC-6 Twin Otter propeller plane at about 600 feet, a witness on the ground told police. Both of Wing's legs were severed at the knees. He was airlifted to a hospital, where he died, DeLand Police Cmdr. Randel Henderson said. |
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An artist in Santiago, Chile, has put a cow on top of a 10-story building as a piece of performance art. A group of artists kidnapped the cow on its way to a local slaughterhouse. The cow was then lifted by a crane to the top of the building where it will live on a 1,500 sq. ft. rooftop that has been turned into a farm. The cow will live there for one week and it will be cared for daily. The artists plan to release the cow to a nature reserve after its stay on the rooftop. | |||
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| Kung Fu Fun! | ||||
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Kung Fu Hustle is to House of Flying Daggers what Blazing Saddles is to Unforgiven. It's a hepped-up burlesque of martial-arts movies that puts audiences in a slap-happy frame of mind. The less you know about it going in, the more fun you're apt to have. It even helps if you don't recognize the director-star, Stephen Chow, who plays a sad-sack ne'er-do-well named Sing. |
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| Blaine plans high-wire stunt | ||||
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NEW YORK (AP) -- For his next stunt, David Blaine says he'll perform an "easy and fun" high-wire act in Manhattan on Halloween. "Basically, it's something that's been done in the circuses, based on the old high-wire acts," Blaine told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It's like family entertainment, this one." |
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| Actor mistaken for terrorist | ||||
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Alexander Scheer, a German actor, caused a terrorist alert after forgetting to remove his fake gun before leaving the set of a movie. | |||
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| Ashton kutcher likes betting nude? | ||||
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Ashton Kutcher says if his new movie, A Lot Like Love, tops the weekend box office, he'll model underwear. | |||
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| Denzel Washington plays funny | ||||
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Denzel Washington has devised a cunning plan to deal with mobile phones ringing during performances of the Broadway revival of Julius Caesar. | |||
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Let's completely disregard the fact that Paula Radcliffe beat her own amazing London Marathon record - and concentrate solely on her peeing by the roadside. | |||
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| Woman nails intruder on rooftop with garden gnome | ||||
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Early one morning last week, Collop heard a crook on the roof of her home in southwest England. Collop says she grabbed the first thing could, a garden gnome, and heaved it at the guy. | |||
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| Mad max fans gone crazy? | ||||
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Texas - Eleven Mad Max fans armed with fake machineguns were arrested after they surrounded a truck while making their way to a movie marathon in a theatrical convoy. |
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| Chess champ Garry Kasparov hit over the head with chessboard | ||||
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MOSCOW (AP) - Garry Kasparov, the world's former No. 1 chess player who quit the professional game last month to focus on politics, said Saturday he had been hit over the head with a chessboard in what appears to have been a politically motivated attack. | |||
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| Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking | ||||
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit. |
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| Ton of cocaine found in canned fish | ||||
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LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Police have seized more than a ton of cocaine destined for the United States as it was being packed into a shipment of canned fish at a seafood processing plant, authorities said Saturday. |
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| Tsunami Stirring Up Waves Of Sea Serpents | ||||
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PORTLAND, Maine -- The recent tsunami in south Asia is stirring up lots of relief efforts -- and it could also be splashing all sorts of unknown sea creatures onto the shoreline. |
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| Student Suspended For Wearing Makeup | ||||
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Student Suspended For Wearing Makeup A ninth-grade student has accused school officials of discrimination for suspending him for wearing lipstick and eye makeup. |
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| Professor Accused of Stealing Manure | ||||
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A Harvard economics professor has been accused of neglecting the standard market practice of paying for goods and services by trying to steal a truckload of manure from a horse farmer. Stable manager Phillip Casey says Martin Weitzman, Harvard University's Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics, has been stealing manure from Charlie Lane's Rockport farm for years. |
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| Handler Punished for Donning Camel Costume | ||||
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Qantas Airways Ltd. on Friday suspended a baggage handler who was caught on video opening a passenger's bag which contained a camel costume, donning the head and wandering around the airport tarmac. The costume's owner, David Cox, said he was waiting inside the terminal at Sydney Airport earlier this week when he glanced outside and saw the baggage handler wearing his camel head. "I obviously was flabbergasted, my jaw dropped to the ground," Cox told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. He said he was shocked to realize that his luggage had been tampered with, and reported the incident to the airline. |
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| Earth’s oldest known object on display | ||||
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MADISON, Wisconsin - Call it much ado about almost nothing. To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old. |
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| Running group stops traffic in Wisconsin town by donning wedding regalia | ||||
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MADISON, Wisconsin - About 50 people gave new meaning to the term "runaway bride" when they donned matrimonial regalia and ran through town, sometimes stopping traffic. Everyone from pretend priests to brides and grooms of both genders took part in the first Running of the Brides on Saturday. |
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| $7000 for a cigarette butt? Tell him he’s dreaming | ||||
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A discarded cigarette butt is currently commanding the sort of price Finance Minister Michael Cullen could only dream of imposing on a full pack of cancer sticks, come the May 17 Budget. Internet auction site TradeMe is fielding bids of more than $7000 for what is purported to be the last cigarette smoked at the Auckland bar Malt before the anti-smoking laws came into effect on December 10. The remains of the Marlboro Red cigarette are mounted in Perspex, on an attractive wooden stand, and come with a certificate of authenticity. |
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| Giant pandas get their teeth done | ||||
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It is all smiles for Chinese giant panda Xiaopingping. The 17-year-old grandfather has become the first panda to undergo successful dental treatment, the China Daily reported on Saturday. The giant panda endured a two-hour root canal operation to repair teeth damaged with age. A second panda, 18-year-old Bobo, had his teeth disinfected as a first step toward the same procedure. |
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| Fulham FC stars get confused | ||||
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A player liaison officer at Premiership side Fulham has revealed he has had some strange requests from players. Mark Maunders says he was asked by French defender Alain Goma why his goldfish was swimming in the wrong direction. |
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| Nostradamus had "grim warning" for new pope | ||||
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The pope elected to succeed John Paul II will be assassinated and his death will spark a Muslim invasion of the West that will split the Roman Catholic church, according to an interpretation of Nostradamus's prophecies by a leading Colombian author. | |||
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| BBC fails in Marley interview request | ||||
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LONDON - The BBC sent an e-mail requesting an interview with reggae star Bob Marley, 24 years after his death. The publicly funded broadcaster confessed on Friday it was "very embarrassed" by the mix-up which appeared in an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation. |
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| Player scores 16 goals in a match | ||||
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A Lincolnshire football club is consulting the record books after a player scored 16 goals in a match. Ryan Smith scored 16 goals when his club, Grimsby-based Expressions Colts, beat Holton Le Clay Grasshoppers 20-0. |
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| Calgary man hospitalized, charges pending after parachute stunt goes wrong | ||||
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CALGARY - A stunt that went terribly wrong has left a 41-year-old daredevil in hospital and facing the prospect of explaining his actions to a judge. Emergency officials said the man tried to jump off the Canada Trust building in Calgary with a parachute Thursday night. |
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| Hong Kong revives bun fight ritual | ||||
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A Hong Kong tradition in which villagers scramble up towers of buns for good fortune will be revived after being suspended for 27 years. The ritual is part of the Bun Festival held each May on the outlying island of Cheung Chau, where villagers compete to reach the top of the towers to grab as many "holy buns" as they can for good luck and health. |
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| Tuk-tuk adventurer begins Thailand-France drive | ||||
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A 44-year-old Frenchman is hoping his first attempt to drive a tuk-tuk will take him from Bangkok to France. Didier Vacher says his quest to drive one of the ubiquitous three-wheeled Thai taxis across 31 countries began as he pondered the end of his marriage. |
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| Mourinho set to host talk show | ||||
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LISBON - Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho will host a monthly talk show on a Portuguese television channel from next month, an official of privately owned station SIC has told Reuters. Mourinho's show, where he will comment on the Portuguese Premier League and his job at Chelsea, will get its first airing on April 18. |
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| Fighting Cows to face Doping Tests | ||||
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Cows that lock horns in an annual test of strength in the Swiss Alps must face renewed doping tests, authorities have decided. | |||
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| Japanese youth "hijacks" airport bus and lands in jail | ||||
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TOKYO - A Japanese youth who wanted to go to Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport. | |||
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| Bronze Age perfume "discovered" | ||||
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A team of Italian archaeologists working in Cyprus believes it has discovered the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age. | |||
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| Man wins lotto suit | ||||
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MADRID - A Spaniard has won a six-year court battle to claim the equivalent of about $50,000 US from a winning lottery ticket that went through a washing machine and came out in pieces. | |||
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| Reality show seeks new Pele | ||||
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A reality show has been launched in Brazil to try to find the new Pele. Broadcasters want 3,000 teenage footballers to take part, reports Clarin newspaper. |
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| Life not so golden for LA residents | ||||
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LOS ANGELES - California may be the golden state but a growing number of Los Angeles residents are "stunningly unhappy" with their quality of life, according to a survey. | |||
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| Buyer pays 100,000 pounds for a bucket | ||||
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DUBLIN - It may have been made during the reign George III, but even that famously mad king might have thought twice about spending the amount of money one bidder forked out for a wooden bucket in Ireland this week. The unnamed buyer spent 145,000 euros (100,000 pounds) on the 18th century mahogany piece, originally used to carry peat fuel between rooms for fires. |
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| Politician wants to stop gender-based pricing | ||||
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TORONTO - Most women, accustomed to paying more than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts, simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator hopes to end all that. Lorenzo Berardinetti wants to brand so-called gender-based pricing a human rights violation and he has introduced a bill in the Ontario legislature to make the practice illegal. |
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| New Julius Caesar always alert on Ides of March | ||||
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BERLIN - Sharing a name with the most famous leader of ancient Rome is not always easy when you're a modern politician -- especially on the Ides of March, when the first Julius Caesar was assassinated. | |||
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| China parks to curb throwing horses to the lions | ||||
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BEIJING - Safari parks in China have agreed to stop feeding their lions and tigers large live animals such as horses -- at least in public. The gory eating habits could lead visitors to believe that animals, both hunter and prey, were only human playthings, Xinhua news agency on Wednesday quoted Xie Youxin, the deputy general manager of the Wild Animal World in Chengdu, as saying. |
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| Hitler "tested small atom bomb" | ||||
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A German historian has claimed in a new book presented on Monday that Nazi scientists successfully tested a tactical nuclear weapon in the last months of World War II. | |||
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| German fans hijack Wembley vote | ||||
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German football fans have been voting to name the bridge at the new Wembley Stadium after Dietmar Hamann who scored the last goal at the old stadium. London Mayor Ken Livingstone had asked people to post suggestions for the bridge's name on www.lda.gov.uk/wembley. |
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| 73-year-old backcountry skier survives five days lost in Austrian Alps | ||||
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INNSBRUCK, Austria - A 73-year-old man is recovering in a hospital after surviving five days in the open on a mountain, a news agency reported Monday. | |||
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| Skeleton over 2,000 years old found in Geneva cathedral | ||||
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A skeleton of a Gaul more than 2,100 years old was discovered under Geneva's cathedral and is believed to be that of military or religious dignitary from the Allobroges tribe. | |||
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Web sites offering tax information drew 20.5 million visitors last month--more than three times the 6.1 million Web users who visited tax sites in December, according to data released yesterday by comScore Networks. Of those tax-related destinations, the government's Web site IRS.gov drew almost 11 million visitors in January--up from 3.2 million from December. HRBlock.com also lured 4.1 million visitors--a 636 percent increase over the 558,000 visitors in December. | |||
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| Dutch cafeteria owner fends off gun-wielding robber with fries | ||||
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch cafeteria owner used piping hot French fries to fend off a gun-wielding would-be robber, police in the southern city of Helmond said Friday. | |||
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| Man charged in anti-Bush incident | ||||
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TAMPA, Florida - A man apparently enraged by a campaign sticker for President George W. Bush on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for several kilometres and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, police said. | |||
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| McDonalds takes issue with rugbys McBrat pack | ||||
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A Brisbane rugby union team is facing legal action from a fast food chain because it has put "McBrat" across the back of players' shorts. McDonald's claims the Brisbane Irish team sponsor's nickname contravenes its intellectual property. |
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| Jeanette Schmid, the last professional whistler from Austria, dies of flu | ||||
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VIENNA, Austria - Jeanette Schmid, Austria's last professional whistler, who once shared a stage with Frank Sinatra, has died of the flu at age 80, a newspaper reported Thursday. | |||
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| Free: Click on the link for donating for AIDS | ||||
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Woord en Daad works for poverty reduction in the third world. They want, with their local partners in the third-world, make difference in the living of pover people. They do all this from Christian perspective. Their motto is: "Called to make a difference! " |
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| Researchers: Tutankhamun died from broken leg | ||||
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King Tutankhamun was not murdered and may have died of complications from a broken leg, say researchers who hope the pharaoh will now be left alone. A CT scan on the Egyptian king's 3,300 year-old mummified body indicates that he may have suffered the fracture shortly before his death, aged 19. |
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Police on Tuesday questioned three siblings after it was discovered they had been living with the decomposed corpse of their father for nearly a decade, an official said. | |||
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| Store fined for beetle infested cereal | ||||
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HONG KONG - An upscale Hong Kong grocery store has been fined for selling a jar of breakfast cereal infested with hundreds of tiny beetles, company executives said Tuesday. | |||
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| Winner of tequila-contest died | ||||
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - The 21-year-old winner of a competition to drink the most tequila died Monday and three other contestants were gravely ill in the hospital, officials said. Ricardo Garcia drank more than 50 shots of tequila Sunday night at a Santo Domingo disco to win the prize worth $400 Cdn at a Mexican night celebration. But he was taken ill, hospitalized and died within hours, apparently from heart failure brought on by alcohol poisoning, said public prosecutor Jose Hernandez Peguero. |
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| Clinton sleeps on floor of plane | ||||
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NEW YORK -- On their tour of tsunami damage in Southeast Asia, former President Bill Clinton once allowed his predecessor, former President George H.W. Bush, to sleep on the plane's only bed while he stretched out on the floor. photo: AP |
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| 78-year-old footballer not ready to retire yet | ||||
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Victoria's oldest playing footballer, Cyril Metcalf, 78, has pulled the boots on for another season of Aussie rules. Cyril played his first game aged 17 in 1944 and has played more than 500 games in his long career. |
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| Woman, born in 1880, still alive | ||||
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - An elderly woman living in a small, wooden shack in rural southern Brazil could be the world's oldest living woman, according to a Brazilian record-keeping organization. Maria Olivia da Silva, who recently celebrated her 125th birthday, "is definitely the oldest living woman in Brazil and possibly in the entire world," said Iolete Cadari, administrative director of RankBrasil, this country's equivalent to the Guinness World Records. |
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| I am being kidnapped, and love it | ||||
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AMSTERDAM — Police officers in the southern Dutch town of Brunssum leaped into action at the weekend to prevent what must be one of the most terrifying crimes women face today: being bundled into a van by strangers and driven away. | |||
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| Wedding in Eulo, and everyone's invited | ||||
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The entire population of 50 in the opal gouging outpost of Eulo in far south-western Queensland has been invited to a wedding with a difference today - at the local pub. John Cuffee, 74, will marry his 55-year-old sweetheart, Anne-Marie Farmer, at a fun-filled ceremony at the Eulo Queen Hotel. |
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| Man sped 19 times in one night | ||||
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A YOUNG Swiss driver who was caught breaking the speed limit 19 times in a night was stripped of his driving licence, fined and given a suspended prison sentence. | |||
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| Norwegian ski jumpers leap into trees for contest | ||||
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OSLO, Norway - Unlike most ski jumpers, entrants in a Norwegian competition this weekend will lose points for any smooth and graceful landings on the snow. These jumpers will be aiming for the trees. And the higher they land, the better their scores may be. |
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| Australian company communicated in coded newspaper ads | ||||
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SYDNEY, Australia - Extortionists used a 400-year-old code made famous in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code to communicate with a company they were trying to blackmail, an Australian newspaper reported Friday. | |||
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| Manuscripts offer dead puppy blood pimple cure | ||||
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Two old manuscripts found at a British stately home, and coming up for auction, suggest some truly odd cures for everyday ailments. The 300-year-old cookery, medical and household recipe books, lavishly illustrated and with elaborate script, give advice on almost everything. |
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| Rinus Michels, father of total football died aged 77 | ||||
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Legendary Dutch coach Rinus Michels, the man credited with developing "total football", has died aged 77. | |||
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| Sony attacks Beatles ~outreach project~ | ||||
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They combine the classic melodies of the Beatles with the heavy-metal thunder of Metallica, but the rock band Beatallica certainly is not music to Sony Corp's ears. Sony's publishing arm, which owns the rights to the Beatles catalog, has ordered the Milwaukee band to take down its website and pay unspecified damages for recording songs like "Leper Madonna" and "Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice". |
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| NASA°s Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts | ||||
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How do you hide something as big and bright as a galaxy? You smother it in cosmic dust. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope saw through the cosmic dust to uncover a hidden population of monstrously bright galaxies approximately 11 billion light-years away. | |||
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| KLM errors 'led to diamond heist' | ||||
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AMSTERDAM — KLM made grave errors in guarding the transport of diamonds stolen in a spectacular armed heist last week and is trying to shift responsibility, it was reported on Wednesday. Newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Wednesday that reliable sources claim that poor security measures at the Schiphol Airport freight terminal led to last Friday's EUR 75 million theft. The sources claim KLM is trying to cover up the exact circumstances of the incident. |
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| Iranian wants to divorce smelly husband | ||||
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TEHRAN - An Iranian woman has requested a divorce from her husband on the grounds that he has not washed for more than a year. "My husband says he does not like water and does not want to take a shower ... He doesn't even wash his face when he wakes up in the morning," Mina, 36, was quoted as saying in court by the state-run Iran newspaper. When the couple first married eight years ago her husband was obsessively clean, she said. |
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| 705.7 mln USB-enabled devices sold in 2004 | ||||
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USB-enabled devices will continue their march to ubiquity in electronics products, as total USB-enabled devices will rise from 705.7 mln in 2004 to 2.1 bln in 2009, according to In-Stat. | |||
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| White House gets tapes of Bush "marijuana" chat | ||||
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WASHINGTON - An author who secretly taped conversations in which George W. Bush indicated he had used marijuana has turned the tapes over to the president's private counsel, the White House says. The White House was irritated last month when Doug Wead released portions of his recorded conversations with Bush from 1998 to 2000, when Bush was governor of Texas and planning his White House run. |
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| Wealthy Chinese may soon embark on private space flights | ||||
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Wealthy Chinese citizens may soon embark on private space flights, with the first group of adventurous millionaires starting astronaut training as early as May, state media reported Monday. The possibility of following in the footsteps of Yang Liwei, who became China's first man in space in 2003, has opened up with the entry of US tour operator Space Adventures into the Chinese market, the Beijing News said. |
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| Ancient Earth Drawings Found in Peru | ||||
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LIMA, Peru - Archaeologists have discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the hills of Peru's southern coastal desert that are believed to predate the country's famed Nazca lines. About 50 figures were etched into the earth over an area roughly 90 square miles near the city of Palpa, 220 miles southeast of Lima, El Comercio newspaper reported. |
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| 78-year-old woman faces charges over marijuana stashed in freezer | ||||
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DANVILLE, W.Va. - A 78-year-old woman faces drug charges and authorities are searching for her 72-year-old boyfriend after police found about a half-kilogram of marijuana stashed in a freezer on her property. State police arrested Mollie Williams last week after responding to a dispute between her granddaughter and the granddaughter's husband, who were arguing over drugs. |
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| Rice with everything in China - including relics | ||||
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BEIJING - Rice fills the bowls on many Chinese tables -- and also the cracks in its ancient buildings, and maybe even the Great Wall, Xinhua news agency reported. "The legend that ancient Chinese craftsmen used glutinous rice porridge in the mortar while building ramparts has been verified," it said in a report seen on Monday. |
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| Divers Scrabble for a Guniness record | ||||
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A pair of Tasmanians have found a unique way to combine two of their passions - deep sea diving and playing Scrabble. Martin Rose and Marcus Barton attempted to set a new world record for the deepest underwater game of Scrabble in the state's south-east at the weekend. |
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| Man hands out $100 bills in Toronto | ||||
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A MYSTERY money man is handing out $100 bills to servers and diners at a west-end restaurant. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, walked into Kelsey's restaurant on Islington Ave. at The Queensway around 10:30 p.m. Friday and handed out about $1,500 in well-worn bills. | |||
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| Bush, Berry share worst film honours | ||||
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Beating such established Hollywood hunks as Colin Farrell and Vin Diesel, US President George W Bush has won the Golden Raspberry Award for worst actor of the year for his appearance in Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. | |||
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Nice site for making a barcode of yourself. Quote from their Site: Enter personal information about yourself to be bar coded. All of the calculations in Barcode | |||
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| Air rescue from Taiwan tower fire | ||||
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Fire raged through the upper floors of a landmark skyscraper in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, killing four before fire crews managed to put it out. Helicopters winched nine people from the roof of the 25-storey Golden Plaza Tower in the centre of the island's third city as smoke swirled up. |
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| 47% of online Americans increased online news usage | ||||
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A study commissioned by the Washington Post showed rapid movement from traditional sources to online news consumption. In 2004, 47 percent of respondents to a Nielsen and Scarborough series of surveys said they increased online news use. Only four percent said they had decreased online news use. |
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| No more "road kill" sweeties | ||||
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LOS ANGELES - Kraft Foods says it will bow to demands by animal rights activists that it stop selling candies shaped like animals that have been run over by cars. The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals publicly demanded removal of Road Kill candy, sold under Kraft's Trolli Gummi brand, earlier this week. "This is not sending the right message to kids," NJSPCA spokesman Matthew Stanton said. On Friday, Kraft said it wanted to be sensitive to consumer concerns about the candies, which are shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels with track marks on their bodies. The product was introduced last summer. |
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| Ajax coach ~Ronald Koeman~ resigns | ||||
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AMSTERDAM — Ajax football coach Ronald Koeman resigned on Thursday, less than 24 hours after his team was knocked out of the UEFA Cup by French team Auxerre. |
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| Illegal dinosaur fossils trade | ||||
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BANGKOK, Thailand - A Thai man who offered dinosaur fossils and valuable antiques for sale on the Internet has been arrested for illegally trading in ancient artifacts and art, police said Friday. Acting on a tip-off from U.S. authorities, undercover police arrested Piriya Wachachitphan, 25, on Monday and confiscated 108 large dinosaur fossils and five boxes containing smaller pieces from his home in Bangkok, said police Lt. Gen. Thani Somboonsab. |
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| Fish too big for boat | ||||
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OSLO, Norway - Unlike many fishermen, Harald Skoge didn't have to exaggerate the size of his latest catch. The 146-kilogram halibut was too big for his nearly nine-metre-long boat. Skoge, who fishes as a hobby, was trying his luck off western Norway with a simple hook and line Wednesday when he thought something had gone wrong. |
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| Rescuers Surprised to Find Plane Survivor | ||||
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Rescuers trudged through waist-deep snow to the site of a plane crash in a Colorado canyon, expecting to find bodies or seriously injured passengers. Instead, they found the pilot, sitting outside a snow shelter he had built and named "Motel 6." Scott Thurner, 57, was the only person aboard the Cessna when it crashed Wednesday. He survived the accident with only scrapes and bruises. |
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| Artist Plans Titanic Iceberg Stunt | ||||
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BELFAST - In a bizarre celebration of Belfast's industrial heritage, a Northern Ireland artist is planning to tow an iceberg to the city that built the Titanic. Rita Duffy, who says the iceberg would represent a dramatic piece of "performance art" as it slowly melted in Belfast Lough, is working on a feasibility study with a local filmmaker before seeking funding for the project she hopes will happen in 2008. |
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| Prisoner works to pay for what he stole | ||||
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A prisoner has been allowed to leave prison every week for 11 hours to work as a painter to pay off what he stole when he broke into a coffee shop. Jose Alberto Pereyra, 34, from Mar del Plata, Argentina asked his lawyer to ask the judge if he could work to pay the amount of money that he and his gang stole from an internet café in the neighbourhood of Constituicion. |
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| Thieves steal documents, cash from Prosecutor | ||||
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AMSTERDAM -- Thieves stole cash, goods and classified documents about ongoing criminal investigations from the public prosecutor's office (OM) in The Hague over the weekend, police said on Tuesday night. | |||
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| Japanese Students: North Korea, where's that? | ||||
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TOKYO - North Korea has menaced Japan with missiles, kidnapped its citizens and stands between it and a place in the soccer World Cup finals, but one in four Japanese high-school students can't place the country on a map. Only 76 percent of high school pupils in a survey by an academic body could locate the reclusive communist state, despite a daily bombardment of news about it in the Japanese media. |
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| Swimming pool stolen | ||||
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OSLO, Norway (AP) - A Norwegian family's swimming pool wasn't just bolted down. It was in the ground. But that didn't stop a band of determined thieves. When the Nicolaysen family visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago. |
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| Russian Scientists Develop Tablet to Prolong Drunkeness | ||||
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Russian scientists have developed a product that can keep a person drunk, Britain’s Daily Telegraph wrote. The tablet called RU-21 Red was developed in Spirit Sciences, a laboratory based in California but with research facilities in Russia. |
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| A national hero or dirty old man? | ||||
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AMSTERDAM — The editorial sections of Dutch newspapers were attempting on Monday to answer the question of how Ruud Lubbers would be remembered in years to come following his resignation as UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Lubbers resigned on Sunday after fresh controversy erupted when a British newspaper published explicit details of an internal UN investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. |
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| S.Koreans want to stop paying for national anthem | ||||
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SEOUL - South Koreans want to stamp out a price of their patriotism by ending royalty fees paid to the family of the composer of the country's national anthem. Last year, those using the South Korean national anthem "Aegukga" paid 6.2 million won to listen to the solemn tune that translates as "Song for Love of Country". |
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| Victims to pay for rescue | ||||
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People who are rescued from the sea at San Antonio Beach in Chile have to pay after the rescue. Authorities at the town told Las Ultimas Noticias that they are trying to punish careless swimmers and cut the costs of the rescue operations. |
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| Egyptian doctors operate on two-headed baby | ||||
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Egyptian doctors have successfully operated on a two-headed baby, removing the second head and neck to leave a normal baby girl after the successful operation. "The operation lasted 15 hours and it was a complete success," said hospital director Nazif Hefnawi, in the delta governorate of Banha. |
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| Krajicek dismayed by son's dream | ||||
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As a former Wimbledon champion, Richard Krajicek could be forgiven for thinking his son would like to follow in his footsteps. Four-year-old Alec Krajicek, however, has other ideas after witnessing his father's form on the Seniors Tour. |
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| "Alive" crash survivor's I.D. found | ||||
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - An American hiker in the Andes stumbled this week on the wallet of a survivor from the 1972 plane crash made famous in the movie "Alive," which shocked the world with tales of eating human flesh to survive. | |||
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| Dutch flu epidemic expected to spread | ||||
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AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands is officially in the midst of a flu epidemic which is defined by the crucial mass of 15 people per 10,000 falling ill with the virus. Well-known virologist Ab Osterhaus said the actual number of people who are ill would probably be much higher. But because they do not go the doctor, they are not registered in official figures. |
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| Arrests, blackout hit Nepal | ||||
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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Police arrested 57 opposition protesters, while the royal government plunged Nepal into a communications blackout, cutting phone service to thwart efforts to organize nationwide rallies against the king's seizure of power. | |||
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| UK net users leading TV downloads | ||||
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British TV viewers lead the trend of illegally downloading US shows from the net, according to research. New episodes of 24, Desperate Housewives and Six Feet Under, appear on the web hours after they are shown in the US, said a report. | |||
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| Man buys table for $7.5M U.S. | ||||
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DURHAM, N.C. - When Albert Sack buys furniture, he doesn't skimp. The antiques dealer just spent $7.5 million US on a mahogany tea table - the second-highest price ever paid for a piece of American furniture. | |||
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| Police may have found JI 'constitution' | ||||
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Indonesian police say they have found a copy of what may be the constitution of alleged South-East Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). The document is said to have been discovered after a bomb explosion on January 8 on Kalimantan Island. |
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| DNA test vindicates parents of Baby-81 | ||||
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DNA tests proved a Sri Lankan couple's claim that a baby who survived December's tsunamis was their child, a court announced today, ending seven weeks of heartache and drama. Judge MP Moahaidein said the test results showed that the couple were the biological parents of the four-month-old boy, as they had insisted all along. | |||
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| Fish and chip oil to help power NT community | ||||
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Used fish and chip oil could be used to help supply power to the remote community of Daly Waters, 600 kilometres south of Darwin. | |||
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| I had been obliged to delete all news because all stories have been double-doubled (4). | ||||
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| Texas robbery suspect caught after leaving his wallet in store he robbed | ||||
| EULESS, Texas - A suspect in a store hold-up was caught after leaving his wallet on the store counter, and then going to the police station to pick it up. | ||||
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| Mouse may jump off endangered list | ||||
| WASHINGTON / USA The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, once seen as a costly impediment to development, is now viewed by the government as a critter that never really existed -- and is no longer in need of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. | ||||
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| The Marfa Light | ||||
| Many Texans have seen the light. It’s not a hard thing to accomplish. All you have to do is travel to Marfa, Texas USA | ||||
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| Make your Hotmail 250 Mb, it's free | ||||
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This article is for all those who are addicted to their HOTMAIL accounts and/or cannot change their HOTMAIL email address 'cause they have given it to many 'important people' | |||
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