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Vanuatu: The happiest place on Earth
From the BBC People can live long, happy lives without consuming large amounts of the Earth’s resources, a survey suggests. The 178-nation “Happy Planet Index” lists the south Pacific island of Vanuatu as the happiest nation on the planet, while …
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Tesla in the news!
From fishing rods to death rays: the man who invented the 20th Century An eccentric Balkan scientist whose inventions changed the world is finally being recognised in his homeland. Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade tells the extraordinary story of Nikola …
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Net Numbers Station?
The 212-796-0735 mystery from Homeland Stupidity Back in the days of the Cold War, spies found ingenious and unusual ways to communicate with each other, hiding their communications in plain sight, whether encrypted or not. For instance, an intelligence agent …
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Life on other planets: The house the Venusians built
Published: 05 May 2006, The Independent When George Van Tassel began work on the domed structure he called the Integratron, he claimed it was designed by architects from Venus. It was never finished but last weekend, a group of devotees …
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Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism
Helen John (left) was interviewed about her time at Geenham Common by John Lundberg, in Strange Attractor Journal One By Nigel Morris and Jonathan Brown The Independent, 06 April 2006 Two grandmothers from Yorkshire face up to a year in …
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SA joins the London Underground
I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable putting music and event announcements on the Further pages – as a result I’ll be diverting London-based talks, events and gigs (with a few exceptions) to the excellent London Underground listings web site, hosted by …
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Ariel Sharon Death Curse
In July last year, Ariel Sharon was targetted with an ancient Kabbalistic death curse – the “pulsa denura” or “lash of fire” – by religious extremists angry at his plans to pull out of the Gaza strip. Recent developments might …
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International Befriend Your Lunch Day
Aochan, a two-year-old rat snake at a Tokyo Zoo, has befriended a hamster who was supposed to be its next meal. “‘I have never seen anything like it,’ a zookeeper at the Mutsugoro Okoku zoo said, adding that the hamster …
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Death Race 2000
The extremely bizarre tale of Eric Red, screenwriter of horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark. An apparently tragic car accident in 2000 revealed that Red’s fictions and reality may always have been indistinguishable. A long story but really worth …
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When Skylab saw Area 51
(Area 51 photographed in 1968) A fascinating account of what happened when, in 1974, the Skylab crew inadvertently photographed the secret air force base at Groom Lake, Nevada: “On April 19, 1974 someone in the CIA sent the Director of …
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Courts enter mind control dispute
A very odd story and surely a first in the annals of paranoid schizophre nia. The case brings to mind that of Mike Corley, who has advertised in the back of Private Eye for some years now, claiming that MI5 …
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Tom Cruise & Scientology: the power of celebrity
At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church. By Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen, LA Times GILMAN HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Nearly 30 …
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