Topic: NEWS - on December 29, 2004 at 10:47:00 PM CET
Uralte Stämme ausgelöscht
Unter den britischen Kolonialherren und der indischen Regierung kämpften die Eingeborenenstämme um ihr Überleben - und starben dabei fast aus. Nun könnte es sein, dass sie den Kampf auf den Andamanen und Nikobaren gegen einen ganz anderen Eindringling verloren haben. Das Schicksal der Eingeborenen ist auch am Mittwoch unklar gewesen, die verheerenden Flutwellen könnten manchen Stamm vollständig ausgelöscht haben. Ausgelöscht wäre damit auch ein bedeutendes Stück Menschheitsgeschichte.
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Topic: e-bay - on December 29, 2004 at 2:35:00 PM CET
Fan splashes out on Elvis' water
Three tablespoons of water taken from a cup Elvis sipped from have sold for £252.
The legendary singer drank from the cup at a gig in 1977, reports The Sun.
Wade Jones, 40, of Belmont, North Carolina, bought the water on eBay.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 29, 2004 at 1:39:00 PM CET
Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks
Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.
Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
"The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 29, 2004 at 12:58:00 PM CET
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:49 UTC (07:58:49 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the largest earthquake on Earth since the 9.2-magnitude Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska, USA, on March 27, 1964, and the fourth largest since 1900. Tens of thousands were killed by the resulting tsunamis, which were as high as 15 m and struck between 15 minutes and 3 hours after the quake, causing one of the most cataclysmic disasters in modern history.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 29, 2004 at 10:49:00 AM CET
The Top Tech Stories of 2004
If there were any lingering doubts that we are in the post-PC era, several big stories this year should have cleared them up. The sale of IBM's PC business to China's Lenovo Group and the death of Comdex were powerful reminders that technology is in a transitional stage.
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Topic: FUN - on December 29, 2004 at 10:39:00 AM CET
Lost HHGG computer game
In 1998, work started on a 3D graphical adventure game of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The player would be Arthur Dent, starting the story in his house then hitching a lift on a Vogon spaceship, as usual, before spinning off into a new adventure melding ideas from the first three Hitchhiker's books with new concepts. Arthur's ultimate aim would be to obtain a towel from a race called the Towelin Monks (groan) with which he could defeat the Krikkit robots. To claim this towel, he would need to pass seven trials of Courage, Strength, Agility, Faith, Intelligence and Skill.
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