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Multi-Year Treasure Hunt Ends

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Dan Deming had heard the rumours about the buried treasure on his central Wisconsin farm for years and at first he made some halfhearted attempts to find it, and then searched in earnest for the next 5 years after receiving a metal detector for his birthday.
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Mafia Supports the Girl Guides?

May 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A Girl Scout sold over 17,000 of the group’s signature cookies this year, shattering her troop’s old mark and probably setting a national record. But how did she do it, that is the question.  Her father Fabio Gunazzenti is a local mafia don and it is thought that his reputation might have had something to […]

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Airplane Ride in the Toilet?

May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to “hang out” in the plane’s bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered “extreme humiliation.”  The man, Gokhan Mutlu arrived to check in for a jetBlue flight from San Diego to […]

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1,840 Crazy Nude Folks Walk into a Staduim

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is the most recent work by New York photographer Spencer Tunick which attracted over 1,800 people, wearing their birthday suits in Austria’s Happel Stadium on Sunday. The stadium will host seven of the Euro 2008 soccer championship matches being staged by Austria and Switzerland, including the June 29 […]

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4 Hairs for $17,000!

March 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

It probably is not even really George Washington’s hair - but it still sold for $17,000.  Four strands reportedly clipped from the first president were sold at auction Friday night to a Richmond man who declined to give his name. Colorado resident Christa Allen said her father, a Philadelphia lawyer, had given her the hair, […]

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Playing with toys pays off

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Playing with toys really paid off for Ian Culhane, he won $10,000 for designing a seven-foot-tall toy roller-coaster. Not bad for a 10-year-old.  Ian’s creation was on display at the Toys “R” Us store in Times Square, where he accepted the prize from the president of K’NEX Brands, a building toy company in Hatfield, Pa.
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Cat vs. Peanut Butter Jar

December 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Tabitha Cain fed feral cat she calls Wild Oats for several years, but now she’s thinking the cat’s name should be Survivor.  That’s because she says the cat survived for 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head.  “We tried to get her, but being the type of cat you can’t catch, […]

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