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Sunday, September 03 2006 @ 11:54 PM PDT |
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Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, police said. He was 44.
Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on its Web site.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Irwin was diving near Low Isles Reef near the resort town of Port Douglas, about 1,260 miles north of the state capital of Brisbane.
Queensland ambulance service spokesman Bob Hamil confirmed that a diver had been killed by a stingray off Lowe Isles Reef but refused to say who the victim was until relatives had been notified.
A rescue helicopter was sent from the nearby city of Cairns, and paramedics from it confirmed the diver’s death.
“The probable cause of death is stingray strike to the chest,” Hamil said.
Irwin is survived by his American wife Terri, from Oregon, and their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.
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Richard Pryor died shortly before 8 a.m. today of a heart attack after being taken to a hospital from his home in the San Fernando Valley. He had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system.
Pryor was regarded early in his career as one of the most foul-mouthed comics in the business, but he gained a wide following for his expletive-filled but universal and frequently personal insights into modern life and race relations.
Throughout his career, Pryor focused on racial inequality, once joking as the host of the 1977 Academy Awards that Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were the only black members of the Academy.
Pryor once marveled "that I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that."
Pryor was married six times. He and Flynn Pryor had a son, Steven. Previous children included another son, Richard, and daughters Elizabeth, Rain and Renee.
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Worried about leaving your house empty while you go on vacation? Japan has the answer: a house-sitter robot armed with a digital camera, infrared sensors and a videophone.
Stores across Japan started taking orders Thursday for the Roborior - a watermelon-sized eyeball on wheels that glows purple, blue and orange - continuing the country's love affair with gadgets.
Roborior can function as interior decor, but also as a virtual guard dog that can sense break-ins using infrared sensors, notify homeowners by calling their cellphones, and send videos from its digital camera to the owner's phone.
It debuted in department stores this week, but supplies are limited. The robot is on display in a half-dozen shops, though many more are taking orders.
Such technology doesn't come cheaply. Takashimaya will sell the machines, developed by Japanese robot maker Tmsuk Co. Ltd. and electronics company Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., for 280,000 yen, or about $3,100 Cdn, each. 1 comments
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Friday, August 05 2005 @ 11:42 PM PDT |
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On August 6th 1945 the US ushered in the era of the Atomic bomb.
The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy" - a reference to former President Roosevelt, devastated an area of five square miles (13 square kilometres). More than 60% of the buildings in the city were destroyed.
Official Japanese figures at the time put the death toll at 118,661 civilians. But later estimates suggest the final toll was about 140,000, of Hiroshima's 350,000 population, including military personnel and those who died later from radiation. Many have also suffered long-term sickness and disability.
Three days later, the United States launched a second, bigger atomic bomb against the city of Nagasaki. The device known as "Fat man", after Winston Churchill, weighed nearly 4,050 kg (nearly 9,000lb).
Nagasaki is surrounded by mountains and because of this the level of destruction was confined to about 2.6 square miles or 6.7 square kilometres.
Nearly 74,000 were killed and a similar number injured.
The two atomic bombs, with the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945, finally left the Japanese no choice.
Japan surrendered to the Allies on 14 August 1945. 1 comments
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With security at an all time high in London, even Her Majesty has decided that it might be prudent to take extra precautions !
The corgi's have been fired and replaced with a Walter PPK (As used by James Bond himself) 3 comments
Most Recent Post: 07/30 11:32AM by DaffodilBob
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Today is Saturday, July 9, the 190th day of 2005. There are 175 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 9, 1776, the US Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York. In many respects this would mark the beginning of the end for the ruling class around the world.
On this date:
In 1540, England's King Henry VIII had his six-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.
In 1755, British Gen. Edward Braddock was mortally wounded as his troops suffered a massive defeat during the French and Indian War (he died four days later).
In 1816, Argentina declared independence from Spain.
In 1850, the 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term.
In 1944, during World War II, American forces secured Saipan as the last Japanese defenses fell.
In 1951, US President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
One year ago: A Senate Intelligence Committee report concluded the CIA had provided unfounded assessments of the threat posed by Iraq that the Bush administration relied on to justify going to war. The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's planned barrier in the West Bank barrier violated international law. Paul Klebnikov, the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was gunned down near his Moscow office. Actress Isabel Sanford died in Los Angeles at age 86.
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 Michael Jackson was found not guilty Monday on all counts in his trial on child molestation charges, concluding a two-year legal saga for one of the world's most well-known pop stars.
Jackson, 46, was indicted on 10 counts for allegedly molesting a then-13-year-old cancer patient, serving him wine and then conspiring to hold him and his family captive. The charges against him included four allegations of molestation, one of attempted molestation, four of serving alcohol to a minor and one for conspiracy.
The singer could have faced nearly 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Instead, he will go free Monday afternoon.
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Tuesday, May 31 2005 @ 04:53 PM PDT |
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The Washington Post said Tuesday that the former deputy director of the FBI, W. Mark Felt, was “Deep Throat,” the confidential source who provided the newspaper information that led to President Nixon’s eventual resignation.
The confirmation came from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, and their former top editor, Benjamin Bradlee.
You can read the full story here.
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 I thought you guys might get a kick out of this story. It seems that a Norwegian family discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed there over 20 years ago.
At some point since early November, when the family closed up the cabin for the winter, their five-metre-diameter pool and all its equipment was uprooted and stolen.
You can read the full story here.
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Friday, October 22 2004 @ 07:10 PM PDT |
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 Here is an interesting story...
A Norwegian's threat to haunt anyone who tampered with his will didn't hold up in - or send a chill through - a court. The man, who wasn't identified, died in mid-2003 and left a will dividing his possessions among a long list of friends because he had no direct heirs, state radio network NRK reported Thursday.
And, to be sure that no one challenged the document, he threatened to haunt any who tampered with the document. "I take a solemn and holy vow that, if at all possible, I will pursue you in the darkest hours of the night," he said in the will. "I warn you in the strongest possible terms not to try any nonsense."
His half-sister, who wasn't one of the beneficiaries, took her chances and challenged the will in the Haalogaland Appeals Court in the Arctic city of Tromsoe.
Apparently, the judge doesn't believe in ghosts, because he declared the will void this week since the two witnesses who signed it testified they didn't know what the document was.
There have been no reports of mysterious late night occurrences from either the half-sister or the judge.
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