After its successful six month mission as part of the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has fallen to earth like a spectacular firework, as it made a controlled...
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Verne Troyer is suing celebrity Web site TMZ.com and other defendants and seeking more that $20 million in damages over his sex tape that he claims was stolen and posted online."Troyer, who played the...
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Sadr calls protest march against U.S."BASRA, Iraq, April 3 (UPI) -- Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called Thursday for a million-strong march in the shrine city of Najef against the U.S. "occupation" in Iraq. The...
Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or...
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Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in
menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant
in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges.
Though only
410 feet...
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Like a character out of Jules Verne, Jean Nouvel, 62, says that he creates a small world in each building that he designs.
"Every time I'm making architecture, it's in a world
that doesn't exist for me. Each time it's an unfolding of interior
spaces, details, locations, new...
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Everyone loves a good giant squid story. I like this quote: it's "not your usual flotsam or jetsam"."Once people thought they existed only in sailor's tall tales. Jules Verne's fictional Captain Nemo fought one,...
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"Today is Tuesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2006. There are 47 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 14, 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days....
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