Topic: PHOTO - on March 21, 2007 at 6:02:00 PM CET
Commons Picture of the Year 2006: Results
The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition is now over, and the winner has been selected. Thank you all for voting. Of the 658 Wikimedians who voted, 83 selected Aurora Borealis as the Wikimedia Commons Picture of 2006. Sans domicile fixe in Paris takes second place with 78 votes. Both Blue Jay and Hoverflies mating in midair had 70 votes and have been awarded joint third place.
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Topic: Terror - on March 21, 2007 at 6:00:00 PM CET
Al-Qaida gets fake papers as Home Office issues 10,000 passports to fraudsters
An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued after fraudulent applications in the space of a year - and al-Qaida terrorists have successfully faked applications, the Home Office admitted today.
The Home Office minister, Joan Ryan, said the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) had received 16,500 fraudulent applications between October 2005 and September 2006.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on March 21, 2007 at 5:58:00 PM CET
Cocaine won't pay for tolls, dummies!
Three Long Island men were caught with as much as $4,000 worth of drugs on the Triborough Bridge on Sunday - all because they couldn't come up with the $4.50 toll, cops said.
The trio was busted by MTA Bridges and Tunnels cops while trying to get from the Bronx to Manhattan Sunday afternoon, police said.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 21, 2007 at 5:57:00 PM CET
First visitors step onto canyon skywalk
The Grand Canyon Skywalk has just received its first visitors. It will be open to the public on March 28, 2007.
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Topic: NATURE - on March 21, 2007 at 5:56:00 PM CET
Hidden fossil, flying dragon
Around 120m years ago, as the dinosaurs neared the climax of their dominion, high above their heads an extraordinary creature flitted from tree to tree. The bizarre lizard, named the "flying dragon" by its Chinese discoverers, glided using a flap of skin spread over eight ribs.
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Topic: GINGER - on March 21, 2007 at 5:55:00 PM CET
Segways to invade Netherlands
Opressed Dutch Segway enthusiasts have seen the light at the end of their winter anguish, with the Dutch transport ministry promising to review its ban on their use in the flat-as-a-pancake arcadia.
A November ruling classified the walk-shy devices as motor scooters, which meant their use on public roads was banned from 1 January because they lack a proper, sorry, conventional brake. Segwayists instead lean back to slow down.
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Topic: born rich - on March 21, 2007 at 5:52:00 PM CET
Million-dollar homes rented for $150 a month
Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto has selected the first four of eight Native Hawaiian families that will each rent one of his multimillion-dollar homes in the exclusive oceanside Kahala area for $150 a month.
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Topic: War and Peace - on March 21, 2007 at 5:11:00 PM CET
Posters of Black Panther Newspaper Covers
Bobby Seale has made available 50 posters of the Black Panther Newspaper covers. The size of the posters is 11 1/2" x 17".
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Topic: ART - on March 21, 2007 at 4:53:00 PM CET
Propaganda’s Comforting Continuity
Needless to say, this one was a Nazi effort.
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Topic: NASA - on March 21, 2007 at 4:50:00 PM CET
NASA Earmarks $3m to Develop MMO and More
NASA, the U.S. space agency, is getting ready to launch its own exploration into virtual space. NASA’s Learning Technologies arm has issued an intramural call for proposal ideas for the development of a massively multiplayer online game that is intended to be “the front-end of a larger synthetic environment.”
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 21, 2007 at 4:41:00 PM CET
All-in-one PC keyboard
It adapted most of PC devices including Intel Pentium 4 CPU, 2GB memory, 500GB hard drive, main board, DVD player and 3D sound built-in speaker in one keyboard. Suggested price is US$500 to 600.
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Topic: NATURE - on March 21, 2007 at 4:39:00 PM CET
10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World
There are probably hundreds of majestic and magnificent trees in the world - of these, some are particularly special
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