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| LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at 102 |
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss inventor who discovered the hallucinogenic
drug lysergic acid diethylamide-25 (LSD), died of a heart attack at his home in
Basel at the
age of 102.
For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his
invention. “I produced the... |
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 The family of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter in his dungeon for 24 years, released a statement for the public in order to express gratitude for the support they received.Fritzl’s daughter, Elizabeth, five of her children and her mother, Rosemarie, wrote a poster thanking people for their...
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 It appears the British government recorded reports of unidentified
flying objects (UFO) hovering over Liverpool and over Waterloo
Bridge in London, BBC News reports. There are among
hundreds of sightings of UFOs across the UK released in eight MoD files to
the National Archive, and they cover a period from 1978 to 1987.
The...
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 Serbia’s pro-Western president Boris Tadic is celebrating victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. According to the assessments, Tadic’s alliance attained 39% of the vote, about 10% more than the nationalist Radicals.
“Tadic’s coalition has convincingly won these elections,” said Zoran Lucic...
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 Conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi formed Italy’s
62nd postwar government on Wednesday, CNN reports.
It appears Berlusconi will be in charge of a Cabinet that
includes longtime allies and some new faces. Franco Frattini, the outgoing EU
Justice commissioner, would serve as foreign minister while Giulio Tremonti was
named...
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 The Austrian man who fathered seven children with his
daughter while keeping her imprisoned in his dungeon claimed that media
coverage was “unfair” and “entirely one-dimensional,” as he was “no monster,” Telegraph.co.uk
reports.
“I am no monster,” Josef Fritzl said though his lawyer Rudolf Mayer, according to
the German tabloid...
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 Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as Russian president
by his powerful mentor, Vladimir Putin, AFP reports. The inauguration of Russia’s new
president took place at midday in the Andreyevsky hall of the Kremlin palace.
The question is whether the 55-year-old ex-KGB officer, who
led Russia
for eight years, is willing to...
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 It appears Queen, Leona Lewis, Dame Shirley Bassey, Simple Minds, Razorlight, Annie Lennox and the Soweto Gospel Choir are among the acts that will appear at a concert for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday in June, 27. The former South African president will travel to London for the event, BBC News reports. Tickets go on public sale on...
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 After numerous infanticide cases occurring in Germany in recent years, another shocking event was revealed Monday by police.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of having killed three of her babies.
The little bodies were discovered Sunday by two of the woman’s grown children, who were looking in the refrigerator...
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 Austrian investigators disclosed more information about the complex underground dungeon in which Josef Fritzl sequestered his daughter and three of their children.
Fritzl, 74, began raping his daughter when she was eleven or twelve years old. Police officers who work on the case think it is then that he started planning how and where...
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 There is a woman out there in Austria who spent 24 years of her
life without seeing the daylight because of the fact that her father imprisoned
her in an underground cellar. But this is the least of her tragedy. The now
42-year-old Austrian woman had been raped by her own father from the age of 11
until now. As unbelievable as it...
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 “Reprise,” A Story of Friendship and Art
Directed by the young Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, “Reprise” tells the story of two young aspiring writers. Philip (Anders Danielsen Lie) and Erik (Espen...
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Today is Wednesday, May 14
, the 135th day of 2008 with 231 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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