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March 2006

Col. Chinn's life was a sure bet for excitement
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... expert who went by the name "Tunnel" Smith helped Chinn blast out a hole in a cliff near US 68, where Chinn hung out a sign that read, "Chinn's Cave House.". ...

Lord of the Rings
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... But the story is that four hobbits, little creatures with big hearts, have to leave home on a quest to destroy a ring of power that would allow the evil Sauron ...

Insect cyborg, a new breed of soldier
ISN - Zurich,Switzerland
... DARPA officials told teams from universities and other research establishments that ... the microsystem payload", eliminating the need for batteries or other ...

The Lord of the Rings: From Page to Stage
DigitalJournal.com - Canada
By David Silverberg. Digital Journal — What would JRR Tolkien think of dancing Hobbits, a 40-foot-wide black spider and Elvish song lyrics? ...

Springtime for Tolkien and Mordor
Guardian Unlimited - UK
If all-singing, all-dancing hobbits strike you as a bad Mel Brooks joke, then you have some idea of the scepticism with which I arrived at the world premiere ...

Dell puts customer through "bizarre" experience Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK... I would like to share my bizarre and disappointing experience of buying a DELL notebook with you and your readers to see whether I am only the one getting the ...

Develop Your Physical Potential To The Maximum
Mathaba.Net - London,UK
... As raw material is nothing if it remains untapped or hidden underground, so is the body's potential if it remains dormant. The ...

Now we're Tolkein
Times Online - UK
... ranged on one side, would you choose a rewriting that substitutes these inimitable, towering heroes of medieval romance with wittering creatures called Hobbits ...

'Arizonas Sedona is a place of beauty, peace and mystery
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
... Is there any truth to tales of strange lights, Indian spirits, secret underground military bases and unusual phenomena of various kinds in the Sedona region?

Lord of the Rings plot in 100 words
Toronto Star - Canada
Four hobbits, two humans, a dwarf, an elf and a wizard set out from Rivendell across Middle-earth to destroy the powerful, corruptive One Ring where it was ...

Popping Off: Passport snag becomes bizarre at the border
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Say you're an American who was born elsewhere and didn't become a citizen until about 11 years ago. You have an expired US passport ...

Lord of the Rings musical opens
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... "We were promised that the show would not be a conventional musical," he said. "We were promised it wouldn't have singing and dancing hobbits, and one song ...

AS GOOD AS GOLD: 'LOTR' stage version is worth every penny
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Frodo lives, as do Sam, Gandalf, Strider, Arwen, Gollum and a raft of orcs, ents, elves and hobbits in a show that's lavish, lively and, although not really ...

Punching the clock
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
... conducting a top-secret project (called Project Tic Toc, get it?) somewhere below the desert in Arizona (Arizona: The Top-Secret Underground Project Capital of ...

Outsider's inside guide to... nature's oddities
New Zealand Doctor Online - New Zealand
... are forced through the outer, creating nature's only known chemical weapons explosion. ... away the eons perfecting this horror show in the darkened underground? ...

Postal carrier robbed of his clothes in bizarre attack
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
By Kevin Quinn. (3/20/06 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - A postal carrier was the victim of a bizarre robbery in southeast Houston. The man was ...

Mexican Coke: The 'Real Thing?'
Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz,CA,USA ... It's no secret that the meteoric rise in the Mexican population in the past few ... the guys who are wheeling and dealing it in an underground market — that are ...

Gollum gosh, the hills are alive with hobbits
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... it's a stage adaptation.". For the happy hobbits in the Shire, breaking into song and dance comes naturally. Less so, perhaps, for ...

THREE RING CIRCUS
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... it's a stage adaptation.". For the happy Hobbits in the Shire, breaking into song and dance comes naturally. Less so, perhaps, for ...

The Ring Sings
Time Canada - Canada
... equivalent. The eerie strobe light reveals a Black Rider and its steed (a man and puppet on stilts), sending fearful hobbits scurrying. ...

Unexplained monster mysteries from the sea
Scotsman - United Kingdom
CRYPTOZOOLOGY – a strange word for a strange science. Let's face it, any discipline which includes the study of everything from ...

The new inventors
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... have three sleds, each carrying about 200 kilograms of equipment and food for 80 ... Patenting an invention is not an easy process, but plenty of Australians do it ...

Pop quiz, hotshot
Toronto Sun - Canada
It's The Lord Of The Rings musical, which opens at the Princess Of Wales this week with a score, a libretto and orcs and elves and hobbits, oh my! ...

'Bionic' muscles could be the answer to the search for the ideal ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... about these muscles is that they run on fuels rather than on batteries as previous ... The research team was led by Von Howard Ebron, PhD, and Ray Baughman, PhD ...

Gandalf in Greasepaint
TIME - USA
In eerie strobe light, a black rider rears its steed (a man and puppet on stilts), sending fearful hobbits scurrying. Dead men rise ...

THE FIGHT FOR MIDDLE - EARTH
Toronto Star - Canada
... office at Mirvish Productions, he leafs through the script, pointing out possible cuts, shorter versions of songs, ponders whether the main Hobbits should have ...

Urine nicked in bizarre taxi con
Glasgow Daily Record - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... The conman is thought to have snatched the deposit box in a bizarre bid to trick a taxi driver into thinking he was a doctor so that he could avoid paying a .

Bizarre String of Incidents in Seguin
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
... I mean the best way to characterize this it, is it's bizarre. ... "You start off with kind of a bizarre accident with these cows spilling onto the interstate.

Boing Boing: Bizarre looking crustacean discovered
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Sen. Fraser photo compounds age-old mystery
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... One strike against the Nisqually Earthquake lights is the fact that most accounts of strange lights in the sky coincide with thrust-fault earthquakes in which ...

Cannibalism Rife in Mormon Cricket Swarms
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Every year, millions of Mormon crickets swarm in a frenzied search for food. Turns ... march. Running from the swarm is no solution. ...

The Serpent and the Real Origins of Freemasonry
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
... 3 See Gnosis: The Secret of Solomon's Temple Revealed by Philip Gardiner due ... The term, Zaradi derives from the word for 'underground cave' or 'chamber

The truth is . . it's a code of old rubbish
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... I've hidden it. ... The truth is, the Holy Grail myth has been invented to cover up what is really beneath the ground - a vast bunker filled with identical sheep.

'Curtain' Of 2 Million Bees Swarm Fla. House
Local6.com - Orlando,FL,USA
A neighborhood in South Florida is asking for help after a swarm of more than 2 million bees was found at a nearby vacant house, according to a Local 6 News ...

Mysterious Yeti Lurks in Disney World's New Roller Coaster
ABC News - USA
... mythological legend. In Nepalese lore, the mysterious yeti is thought to protect the pristine East Asian mountains and forests. At ..

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