Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 11:32:20 AM CET
A 1901 lightbulb still burns bright to this day
day you'll find this remarkable light bulb burning bright at a fire station in Livermore, California. It hasn't been turned off since 1901. The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It Or Not and General Electric agree the bulb, made of tungsten and of unknown wattage, is the longest-living in history, despite two moves and a few power outages during its lifetime.
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 11:27:51 AM CET
New Year fireworks blast kills 28 in Mexico
A New Year's Eve fireworks explosion killed at least 28 people and injured more than 50 in the Mexican port city of Veracruz on Tuesday.
The death toll rose to 28 as firefighters searched burned buildings, a spokesman for the national civil protection agency told
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 11:25:19 AM CET
Israeli Arab Porn Video Inflames Community Passions
"Fatima" saunters into the store, murmuring "Shalom." At the counter, "Yussuf" eyes her appreciatively and returns the Hebrew greeting. Cue music. The couple embrace, lapsing naturally into their native Arabic. Were it not for the hardcore sex that comes next, it might have passed for another Israeli high school video on language education. Instead, the bilingual film billed as "the first Israeli-Arab porno" has inflamed the Jewish state's Muslim minority, drawing charges of sacrilege and a vigilante death sentence on "Fatima" issued by her own hometown and family.
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 11:22:17 AM CET
As we start 2003, here's how we look
Obsessed with witchcraft and gardening, keen on new gadgets, inclined to travel but disinclined to have children, a bit overweight but likely to answer "fine" when asked "howyagoin?" That was your average Australian in 2002.
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 11:05:26 AM CET
Graz 2003 wünscht einen guten Rutsch in das Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2003
Das Neujahrskonzert - ganz im Zeichen von Graz 2003 See you in Graz!
¬><a href="www.graz03.at"target="_blank">2003
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