" A US woman found after being abducted as a girl in 1991 gave birth to two children fathered by her alleged kidnapper - the first when she was 14. Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters, 11 and 15, were kept in a...
Kerstin Fritzl, from the Austria cellar, has reunited with her family. It was reported yesterday on NowPublic that she woke up from the coma she was in. That coverage can be seen...
created by poolparty | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1357 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Canadian Ambassador to Indonesia John Holmes will travel to Banda Aceh to meet with project partners delivering his country`s post-tsunami reconstruction assistance.While in Banda Aceh, the ambassador will participate in a ceremony marking the...
created by uusjio | 5 years ago 413 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In yet another case of racialised over-policing, Oh No a WoC PhD
reports that a young African woman was aggressively assaulted by police
for not cleaning up a spilled slice of birthday cake to the
satisfaction of...
created by angryindian | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 1085 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The following is a post I put together to prepare trekkers on the Love Hope Strength Foundation's Everest Rocks trek to Everest Basecamp this autumn to raise money for cancer support and research. The article gives some basic information and background on Nepal...enjoy!"Some...
created by jakedai | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 853 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"HUNTINGTON -- A catastrophic failure Thursday in a Crandall Canyon mine tunnel killed three men, injured six others and cast grave doubt on whether a rescue mission to find six missing miners could ever resume.
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created by merrie | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 605 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Holding out hope here....."HUNTINGTON, Utah (CNN) -- Rescue workers said they heard a noise Wednesday night -- though it's unclear what it was -- deep inside the Utah mine where six men have been trapped for nine days.
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Crandall Canyon coal mine safety officer...
created by Susan Jones | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 638 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Why tag images you might think to yourself. Here are several reasons to think a bit more about tagging and what you upload, why you upload it, and how the web extends our senses as always."Plotting photos on maps also allows trip planners to "see" the terrain before booking a...
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"Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Dreaming of Jerky
Well I signed up for what I'm calling the jerky of the month club just last night and really can't wait to try it as soon as it arrives. Until then you might order a bag or two from me to see if you like it ;-)
you can go...
"French President Jacques Chirac, who announced late Sunday that he will not be standing for a third term, leaves behind a legacy of largely unfulfilled promise and missed opportunities.
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Perhaps a more...
created by Edmund Jenks | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 848 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Well, that makes me feel so much better. This post is a follow-up to angryindian's story, which you can see here."Six people were hurt in Britain on Wednesday by the latest in a series of letter bombs, but police...
created by Jordan Yerman | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 709 views | 0 recommendations | 3 comments
Almost everyone believes that Johann Gutenberg, a goldsmith from the German town of Mainz, invented printing. But while his existence has never been in doubt, everything else about Gutenberg is uncertain. There is almost no evidence of his character and activities. No book...
"An investigation was under way last night into Russia's black market trade in radioactive materials amid concern that significant quantities of polonium 210, the substance that killed former spy Alexander Litvinenko, are being stolen from poorly protected Russian nuclear...