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In Settle, Yorkshire, a local shop-owner called Tom Algie, who wanted a Christmas break, left his general store, called "Practically Everything", open for his clients to pick up whatever they needed, with a bowl to place payments in. The result? He came back to find 187 British pounds and two Euros - the exact price of all the goods that had been ( Read more... )

I had heard of SuperBarrio, but... http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/

There is even one in Italy!

One of the most legendary recordings ever made, and under the most fascinating circumstances, was Toscanini's recording of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony. In 1942, the British Empire, the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting for their lives against the Axis, then at the height of its power. Soviet Russia had been until then not only ( Read more... )

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From yesterday's Catholic News Agency release:

Gov. Schwarzenegger commits to 20 daily rosaries to help pass health care planSan Diego, June 27 (CNA).-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to a meeting of the Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) in San Diego on Monday on the topic of healthcare reform, pledging to pray "twenty ( Read more... )

Honestly, how can anyone not be curious - in a sick, train wreck kind of way, about the content of a comic called: Avengelyne - Glory - Godyssey? And I am not, repeat not, making this up.

In 1816, the village authorities of San Giovanni Gemini, near Agrigento, Sicily, sued an important local landowning family and some of their associates for defrauding them over the sale of a considerable amount of public land. The lawsuit is still running.

Yesterday, Milan's second airport, Linate, was closed for hours due to an infestation of hares. The animals had to be caught alive and removed to a neighbouring sanctuary. That paralyzed half the air traffic of Italy's leading economic and financial centre. Interesting sense of priorities.

The only people stupider than those who proposed to the Pentagon to disable enemy fighters by gassing them with aphrodisiacs (therefore driving up one of the instincts best known for making people fight) are the homosexual activists who presented this as an attempt to make the enemy homosexual - which it was not - and dubbed it the "gay bomb"; and ( Read more... )