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Iran rocks (quietly)
Iran’s ‘culturally inappropriate’ rock hopefuls struggle to be heard Robert Tait in Tehran Tuesday August 23, 2005 Guardian The soaring guitar solos and haunting keyboard melodies owe more than a nod to Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple and other ageing …
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France vs colossal frogs
From the Independent French countryside hit by a massive invasion of frogs By John Lichfield in Paris Published: 21 August 2005 A campaign in France to exterminate frogs may sound like the beginning of a civil war, but these are …
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God, guns and skydiving
“Imagine a group of today’s youth standing around with their skateboards and piercing’s [sic], when all of a sudden, one of them looks up and sees an aircraft at 12,000 feet, with a smoke trail.† What appear to be 5 …
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Premature Illumination
A long feature on Robert Anton Wilson from the Santa Cruz Metroactive Premature Illumination Robert Anton Wilson, the iconoclastic genius behind the famed ‘Illuminatus! Trilogy,’ has a few thousand things he’d like to teach you By Bill Forman Decades before …
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Maharishi pulls out of "scorpion" Britain
All you need is love and peace – but not in destructive Britain, so maharishi pulls out Followers split as 95-year-old guru ends meditation teaching in ‘scorpion nation’ Mark Honigsbaum, Monday August 15, 2005, The Guardian You can do it …
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Creature Wars
Shark vs Octopus (requires Real Player) and Praying Mantis vs Humming Bird. Yikes! Via Joe Mcnally and Corpus Mmothra.
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China's Anomalous Propaganda Unit in action?
Dragons in the Tibet Sky Photo from dajiyuan.com A photo of two peculiar dragon-shaped objects taken from a plane flying over Tibet’s Himalayas piqued many users’ interest when displayed on a Chinese website. The photographer is an amateur. On June …
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Sallekhana: beyond life and death
A deadly belief is reborn: Beyond life, beyond death When Shradha Shri decided to starve herself to death hundreds came to watch. Fasting to achieve nirvana is one of Jainism’s holiest rites and is making a revival, reports Justin Huggler …
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Monkey Medicine
I know what’s good for me Sick chimps will gnaw on just the right plants to make themselves feel better. And, says Laura Spinney, their self-medication could teach us a thing or two Published: 03 August 2005 Chausiku, an adult …
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Abducted by the King of Pop?
The abuse claims of Michael Jackson’s latest accuser, Thomas Bartucci Jr, bear striking resemblance to those maid by alleged victims of alien abduction, government mind control and Satanic Ritual Abuse. Familair tropes include the loss of volition, the immplant, the …
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Raagnagrok on air!
Monday 1 August, 8.30-10pm Let the living spirit of Raagnagrok re-fragrance your soul as they play a live session on Jim Backhaus and Magz Hall’s You are Hear, on Resonance Radio. Tune in on 104.4fm or via aetherstream. Also that …
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Malawi Flying Saucer Crash!
Of nude wizards and flying saucers… From National Malawi Police rescue man after `plane’ crash by Joseph-Claude Simwaka, 29 July 2005 – 06:19:03 A Machinga man should count himself lucky to survive what should have been a fatal `air crash’ …
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