Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 11:05:39 AM CET
Mouse fresco 'challenges Mickey'
A 700-year-old fresco bearing an uncanny resemblance to Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse has been discovered in Austria. The mouse figure was unearthed by an art historian working on the church in the southern village of Malta.
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Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 11:02:27 AM CET
Norwegian man fined £260 for urinating in the sea
Frode Abelvik, 38, urinated from a pier after leaving a late night bar in Arendal this summer.
He had first tried to get back into the bar but was refused and there are no public toilets in the town.
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Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 10:15:44 AM CET
Russian official says nuclear material has disappeared from country's plants
The head of Russia's nuclear regulatory agency says small amounts of weapons- and reactor-grade nuclear materials have disappeared from the country's atomic facilities.
''Instances of the loss of nuclear materials have been recorded, but what the quantity is is another question,'' Yuri Vishnyevsky, head of Gosatomnadzor, said Thursday. ''Of those situations that we can talk about in actuality, they involve either grams of weapons-grade or kilograms of the usual uranium used in atomic power plants.''
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Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 10:13:24 AM CET
Snakes alive, smugglers snatched
Smugglers of an estimated 600 cobras threw crates of the snakes at police in a high-speed sea chase off Hong Kong, it was reported yesterday.
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Topic: - on November 15, 2002 at 11:03:15 AM CET
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Topic: - on November 15, 2002 at 2:14:51 AM CET
Kite Aerial Photography
This aerial camera mount is designed to use a Kodak® MAX outdoor camera (the one without the flash), triggering it with a KSB model airplane de-thermal timer. The design could be adapted to other timers and cameras, though specific dimensions would change. The rig is quite light - about 10 ounces ready to go - so it can be lofted in marginal conditions where a larger facier rig could not.
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Topic: - on November 15, 2002 at 12:08:15 AM CET
700-year-old picture of 'Mickey Mouse' found in Austrian church
Walt Disney first sketched his character in 1928 but an Austrian art historian spotted an uncannily similar drawing.
The painting, which has been dated back to the early 14th Century, is in the Community Church in Malta, Carinthia. Next to a large sketch of St. Christopher is a clear drawing of the mouse.
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Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 11:30:32 PM CET
World's biggest liar to defend title
The World's Biggest Liar will defend his title against a small but devious group of challengers in a pub in northern England later today. George Kemp beat five-time winner John Graham last year with a string of tall tales including one about his grandfather's greyhound which he said stopped in the middle of a race to have pups and then went on to win, followed by the puppies.
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Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 2:52:51 PM CET
Circus Elephant Stops by McDonald's for Breakfast
A rather hungry breakfast-seeker cut her way through the McDonald's drive-thru line - and no one dared complain. A four-ton elephant named Tina showed up at the McDonald's in Cape Coral on Wednesday morning, happily swallowing 10 veggie burgers that she grabbed from workers by sticking her snout through the drive-thru window.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 2:07:04 AM CET
50 places to see before you die
we asked you to tell us about the places you think that everyone should see in their lifetime. This is how you voted...
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 2:00:56 AM CET
UFF Matt Drudge OVER 1 BILLION SERVED IN PAST YEAR
"Matt Drudge a born loser" [10/24/00, Shafer], the NEW YORK TIMES last week in a Page One story claimed people have been "reduced to logging onto the Web site of the gossip columnist Matt Drudge" [11/06/02, Stanley], but in every state and nearly every civilized nation in the developed world, readers know where to go for action and reaction of news -- at least one day ahead.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:00:05 AM CET
Germany's "dumbest criminal" jailed
A German bank robber who forgot to cut open eye slits in his mask and lifted it up to demand money has been convicted and sentenced to four years in jail, state prosecutors in Giessen say. The robber, dubbed "Germany's dumbest criminal" by Bild newspaper, had entered a bank in the western town with a burlap bag over his head. Bumping into bank customers on his way to the teller, he pulled out a plastic knife and a toy pistol.
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