Since it seems to be quiet today... Clay tablet identified as asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Well, sort of. Other articles suggest that geologists date the Köfels landslide to 8-9K years ago (i.e. well before the Sumerians) and the connection to the story in Genesis 19 appears to be completely speculative.

Teenage shoplifting: A lesson I hope she won't forget
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Comic

US Army guy: Intel wants us to capture the guy alive.

Iraqi Army guy: This will not be possible. I am sworn to vengeance.

UAG: Why? What'd he ever do to you?

IAG: A member of his family killed a member of mine.

UAG: What? When did this happen?

IAG: 1387.

UAG: What is the matter with you people?

Assuming the Iraqi is using the Islamic ( Read more... )

study of the document shows that the knights were not heretics as had been believed for 700 years

Um, did anyone still believe that? I thought the role of the King of France and his debts was pretty well known...

Did they try googling for paradox heads?

I did wonder what the logic behind having two branches practically round the corner from one another in Cambridge was.

IAWTP.

Bishop David Wilcox, who was among those to make the decision not to inform police of Halliday's behaviour, said it was a common way of dealing with such cases at the time.

So how many more cover-ups is the church sitting on?

Among the conclusions I draw from this article are:

• Tax credits are too complicated for accountancy firms
• Gordon thinks I'm a swing voter

North Korea talks disrupted by ... banking limbo?