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Posted on Thursday June 26, 2008 at 10:21 AM
They say wine is good for your heart and your blood pressure, and one assumes that it is usually good for your disposition. But some angry winemakers in France have dispelled that notion with a heated protest that resulted in violence and mayhem.About 7,000 winemakers, in protest of falling wine prices and the cost of fuel, marched through the streets of Languedoc Roussillon on Wednesday afternoon....
Posted on Wednesday June 18, 2008 at 09:25 AM
This story is about two people of entirely different characters. One is a shining beacon of enterprise and courage, the other one a disgusting example of opportunistic greed. It could be called "How low can you go?"A 12 year old girl who was making some summer money running a lemonade stand with friends in Terre Haute, Indiana, found herself confronted by an 18 year old man who demanded she hand ov...
Posted on Thursday June 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Every kid is a born stargazer. Those summer nights spent lying back in the grass, imagining the wonders beyond his vision, the blazing glories that send their light out millions of miles and appear to his eyes as twinkling beacons against the velvet sky.Thus the dream of every kid is a telescope. Telescopes provide us our own personal window into the universe. Some of us who were lucky enough to ge...
Posted on Thursday June 5, 2008 at 09:04 PM
A woman who says she has a fetish for inanimate objects has married the Eiffel Tower. Erika La Tour Eiffel -who had her name legally changed to that of her new husband - is one of a number of women in the world whose objects of affection are... well, objects.Erika follows in the footsteps of another woman who has been married to the Berlin Wall for 29 years. Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, whose last n...
Posted on Tuesday May 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM
If you're shopping for a new sport that requires no training and offers cheese as a prize, then perhaps the annual Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is the competition for you. Held at Coopers Hill in Gloucester, UK, the cheese roll attracts contenders from all over the globe.An 8lb roll of Double Gloucester cheese is sent tumbling down a very steep, nearly vertical hill. The contenders chase th...
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