Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Feast of Kamehameha and Emma
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Feast of James of the Marche
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Late author Mailer wins Bad Sex in Fiction award [see below]
Tue Nov 27, 9:33 PM ET Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Norman Mailer, who died this month aged 84, was Tuesday declared the winner of the 2007 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his latest work. Mailer, a hipster poet, director, occasional film actor, and even a New York City mayoral candidate in 1969, won the […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Web site ranks stupid holiday gifts
Mon Nov 26, 3:25 PM ET From Mother Teresa breath spray to a screaming rubber chicken, manufacturers come up with stockings full of stupid gifts in time for the holidays with one Web site dedicated to finding the most idiotic. Web site Stupid.com, which claims finding a truly stupid gift is an art form, on […]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
One of my Airplanes!
November 27, 1956 – Operation Quick Kick On this day in engineering history, a succession of B-52 bombers landed at Baltimore’s Friendship International Airport after completing eight non-stop polar flights, the longest of which lasted 32.5 hours and covered 17,000 non-stop miles. The mission, a training exercise known as Operation Quick Kick, was designed to […]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Military Plans Next-Generation GPS
Daphne Benoit, AFP Nov. 27, 2007 — The U.S. military is working on super-powerful updates to its GPS satellite navigation technology to try to trump the rival European Galileo project which just received key funding, experts say. European Union lawmakers agreed last week on a budget to include 2.4 billion euros ($3.5 billion) for the […]
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Far Too True
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Far Too True
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
We’ve Been Here And Eaten These.
Dough for Sachertorte is prepared in baking pans in Hotel Sacher’s cake factory in Vienna March 2, 2007. (Herwig Prammer/Reuters)