November 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Fishermen have reported seeing hundreds of common migratory birds plunging to the deaths in the past week. “While fishing about 10 miles south of Portsmouth in England, we witnessed thousands of garden birds disorientated, land on the sea and most drowning,” one boat skipper told Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). “Species … [Read the full story]
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November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
On this day, the gunslinger Franklin “Buckskin” Leslie shoots the Billy “The Kid” Claiborne dead in the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. The town of Tombstone is best known today as the site of the infamous shootout at the O.K. Corral. In the 1880s, however, Tombstone was home to many gunmen who never achieved the enduring … [Read the full story]
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October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500′s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. … [Read the full story]
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October 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A friend of Jerry Lee Lewis and a member of his band was killed in a shootout last week in Memphis. Seventy-year-old bass player BB Cunningham was working as a security guard at an apartment complex when he went to investigate a gunshot noise nearby. Witnesses say they then heard further gunshots and Cunningham, along … [Read the full story]
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July 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A masked gunman broke into a Denver cinema and shot dead at least 12 people and wounded 38 others, including children, during a late-night screening of the new Batman movie. James Holmes, 24, entered the mall in Aurora, Colorado dressed in black and wearing a gas mask and bullet-proof vest and set off a smoke … [Read the full story]
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June 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Man calls 000 and says, “I think my wife is dead” . The operator says how do you know? He says, “The sex is the same but the ironing is building up!”
May 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment
It was my first job and I had only started a year earlier. I worked in London for a national newspaper. Newspapers were the main form of information, and readers would buy two or three copies a day, just to keep up with the latest news and sports results. Television was in its early days … [Read the full story]
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April 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A family is in shock after its pet hamster not only came back from the dead and clawed his way out of a 50cm grave. Dave Eyley had buried the four-year-old hamster after he found him “cold and lifeless” in his cage in Wantage, southern England, over the Easter weekend. But the plucky rodent, called … [Read the full story]
March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A Sheep thought to be the world’s oldest has died after falling over a 45m cliff in Britain’s Western Islands. The blackface ewe – nicknamed Twiggy because of her scrawny appearance – was just a month short of her 26th birthday. Crofter John Maciver put her longevity down to her still having most of her … [Read the full story]
March 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in the city of Jalalabad, stating it was in revenge for the burning that has caused an outcry in Afghanistan, triggering a wave of demonstrations and killings. About 40 people have been killed in protests and related attacks since the incident became known last Tuesday, including four … [Read the full story]
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