Sunday, 21. December 2008
Topic: STRANGE - on December 21, 2008 at 3:36:24 PM CET
Finnish words for snow
Everybody has heard that the Eskimos have over forty different words for snow; quite a few people also know that this is an urban legend. What you probably did not know, however, is that Finnish does have over 40 words for snow -- at least if we stretch the definition a bit to include all forms of frozen precipitation.
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Topic: SPY - on December 21, 2008 at 3:01:21 PM CET
German spy chief threatens Wikileaks
The head of the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), Germany's equivalent to the CIA, has threatened Wikileaks with "immediate criminal prosecution" if it does not remove all "files or reports related to the BND".
The spy chief claims to have already engaged the BND's legal machinery.
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