Topic: - on February 1, 2003 at 3:11:46 PM CET
Happy Chinese New Year!
The Chinese Lunar New Year is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.
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Topic: - on February 1, 2003 at 2:46:22 PM CET
Rembrandt self-portrait uncovered
Art restorers have uncovered a self-portrait of Rembrandt which had been retouched hundreds of years ago to feature a Russian nobleman, a museum says.
Layers and layers of paint were painstakingly scraped away to reveal the original picture of the Dutch master, complete with the round chin and gentle eyes common to other self-studies.
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 7:07:45 AM CET
Norman Mailer Celebrates 80th Birthday
Norman Mailer did not expect to make it to 40, and now finds himself twice that age.
He has lived longer than Ernest Hemingway and most of his other literary heroes. His body aches, but his mind remains strong.
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 6:13:51 AM CET
National Geographic Reveals Swimsuit Issue
There are bare breasts, naked bottoms and a cover girl wearing three well-placed shells and a bit of sand, but this is no girlie magazine. It's historical. It's cultural. And it's definitely geographic.
It's National Geographic.
The venerable yellow-bordered magazine, long a repository of gorgeous family-friendly photography, is publishing its first swimsuit issue, on newsstands and online on Saturday.
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 5:21:33 AM CET
Farmers must keep pigs happy
Britain's farmers could face a fine if they fail to cater for the emotional well-being of their pigs.
Under a new ruling from Brussels, the country's farming community must provide their animals with "manipulable material" to give environmental enrichment.
The European Commission says this includes straw, hay, wood, compost or sawdust.
The aim is to keep animals contented and also prevent them from attacking each other.
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 5:02:38 AM CET
Breast milk enters Chinese cuisine
Chinese chefs will go to great lengths to please their customers and the unusual ingredient they are reported to be using of late seems to confirm that reputation.
According to local newspapers, a restaurant in southern Hunan province has started offering dishes cooked with human breast milk.
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Topic: - on January 29, 2003 at 10:52:27 AM CET
Teen, Tossed 25 Feet in Air During Car Accident, Grabs Overhead Wires Until Rescued
A teenager was catapulted at least 25 feet in the air during an auto accident but grabbed onto overhead utility wires like an action hero and dangled for about 20 minutes before a rescue crew brought him down by ladder. Joe R. Thompson III, 18, was treated for bruises and scratches at a hospital and was released.
"God was definitely in control," he said.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 10:33:27 PM CET
Wirres Hetenknutschen
Ausgerechnet Deutschlands Ober-Hetero-Macker Dieter Bohlen bekam vor laufenden Kameras einen dicken Schmatzer vom Gastgeber Thomas Gottschalk – und das mitten auf den Mund! "Fünf lange Sekunden" dauerte die "Knutsch-Attacke", wie die "Bild"-Zeitung penibel aufführt. Die amtlich zulässige Dauer von Freudenbekundungen unter Männern ist damit wohl eindeutig überschritten.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 10:27:05 PM CET
Eurogay startet Magazin
Daniel Küblböck ist die Super Husche
Nach der Insolvenz der QUEER AG und der Einstellung des "Queer"-Magazins produziert die eurogay media AG das neue "eurogay magazin". Die Redaktion setzt sich aus vielen ehemaligen "Queer"-Mitarbeitern zusammen, deren Arbeitsplätze damit gerettet worden sind. Das Magazin erscheint ab Ende Januar monatlich mit einheitlichem Mantel in acht Regionalausgaben und wird mit einer Gesamt-Druckauflage von 100.000 Exemplaren monatlich an rund 1.600 Stellen bundesweit kostenlos verteilt.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 8:38:02 PM CET
Wanted: New Cyprus Flag and Anthem
Wanted: New flag and anthem to represent a complex reunification which doesn't ruffle any nationalist feathers. Artists must be willing to work for free but are guaranteed a place in history books.
The United Nations took out full-page adverts in the Cypriot press Monday, declaring a competition for budding composers and artists to come forward and put their seal on a new Cyprus by penning a new anthem and flag.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 2:15:22 PM CET
Oakland police use tear gas on group of rowdy fans
Unruly fans set several cars on fire, tossed bus stop benches into the street, burned Christmas trees, broke car windows and blocked parts of International Boulevard in East Oakland following the Raiders' Super Bowl loss Sunday night.
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Topic: - on January 27, 2003 at 1:54:22 PM CET
Breaking News CNN zu besuch
JUHU CNN war hier !!!!!!!
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