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...
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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....