Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 1:32:38 AM CET
Mazda no match for 1/2-ton pumpkin
Ever wondered what a giant pumpkin would do to a pickup?
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 12:39:30 AM CET
Vanilla Coke makes debut in Europe
Coca-Cola is trying Vanilla Coke in Europe, starting in Sweden. The first cans of the product rolled off a production line at a Stockholm plant Wednesday.
Coke spokesman Jonathan Chandler said the company also plans to launch Vanilla Coke in France, Germany and Britain within 12 months.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:36:06 AM CET
64 years ago today
War of the Worlds Broadcast
Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact Many Flee Homes to Escape 'Gas Raid From Mars'--Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy This article appeared in the New York Times on Oct. 31, 1938. A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds," led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:23:37 AM CET
Tackling 'witch' murders in Tanzania
Communities in northern Tanzania along the shores of Lake Victoria are stepping up their efforts to eradicate the murder of old people, mainly women, who have been accused of witchcraft. The women often become targets of attacks when traditional healers identify them as the cause of an illness or other misfortune.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:13:36 AM CET
Magic meets science at witches' school
Today's witchcraft, teachers at the school on Klagenfurt, Austria, say, is just mainstream science applied in a different way.
"A witch is someone who looks holistically on life, who does life-counselling things. A witch serves to help humans," said Sonja Kulmitzer, 28, who runs the school with Starchel.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:47:54 PM CET
Man leaves treehouse after 12 years
Besh Serdahely, the self-appointed guardian of the San Mateo County mountain's lupines, owls and mission blue butterflies, asked rangers Tuesday to help him dismantle his home of 12 years from its carefully crafted niche in a huge coastal oak.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 1:52:49 PM CET
Is this man Jack the Ripper?
Millionaire mystery writer Patricia Cornwell says she has unmasked Jack the Ripper -- and he was actually a respected British artist. In her quest to prove her theory, Ms. Cornwell has hired art and forensics experts and bought 30 paintings by impressionist artist.
"I do believe 100 per cent that the artist Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper," she said in a recent interview. "Sickert led a horrifying double life, painting by day and killing by night. The case will soon be closed."
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 9:58:04 AM CET
EU sues Austria for killing protected birds
The European Commission is taking Austria to court for allowing hunters to shoot too many protected wild birds. An investigation has found Austria grants too many exceptions to a ban on shooting Buzzards, Marsh Harriers, and Goshawks.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 9:17:00 AM CET
Italy Volcano Erupts, Blackens Sky
Mount Etna spewed columns of ash that blackened skies as far away as Africa, and rivers of steaming lava streamed down its slopes, setting a pine forest on fire and leading officials to close schools and an airport near the volcano.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 1:05:01 AM CET
The Stupid Crook Book
It’s a good thing that crime doesn’t pay — otherwise some of the world’s dumbest criminals would be asking for a refund. In his new book, “The Stupid Crook Book,” Leland Gregory shares his collection of stories — some of them laugh-out-loud funny — about the criminally inane. Read an excerpt from his book.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 12:51:33 AM CET
Church miracle keeps faith burning
'And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.' In the best tradition of Man's glowing relationship with Divinity, the appearance of a mysterious beam of light in a Jerusalem church is defying explanation.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 12:16:57 AM CET
Turn to Pravda for the real news
A quick glance at the headlines on Online Pravda (english.pravda.ru) suggests that the new Russia is every bit as paranoid as the old Soviet Union. One headline reads "What if the USA Bombs Russia?" (The Russians apparently don't realize that we have to bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Indonesia and possibly suburban Washington, D.C., before we can turn our attentions to them.) Another attempts to answer the question that I didn't realize anyone had asked: "How to Protect Russia From Western Capital?"
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