The House unanimously voted today to ban Internet taxes for seven more years, clearing the way for President Bush to sign the extension before the current moratorium ends Thursday. picked by DemureArt 10 months ago

A 45-year-old transient who robbed a Hillsboro vegetable stand at gunpoint last summer has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. picked by muppet 7 months ago

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Otis Redding sang "Dock of the Bay" So let me introduce to you...
Otis Redding died today in 1967 at 26 years old. picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago

For the past seven years, a photo of Guy Randolph has been posted at Boston police stations, labeling him the most dangerous type of sex offender. Police ordered him away from schools and playgrounds if he walked too close.

But yesterday, in a hearing that took less than 10 minutes, a Suffolk Superior Court judge said the wrong man had been convicted picked by doggylives 4 months ago

This 35-year-old registered nurse from Hawaii hasn’t cut her hair since she was 6 years old. In addition to working the night shift at Hawaii State Hospital, Heidi also owns and operates three vacation homes, leaving little time for herself. picked by sandossu 4 months ago

Tungurahua has become active roughly every 90 years since for the last 1,300 years. Volcano Tungurahua has started erupting again this year and continues erupting at a lower level even today. Amazing photo. picked by misswinkle 12 months ago

Oktar, born in 1956, is the driving force behind a richly funded movement based in Turkey that champions creationism, the belief that God literally created the world in six days as told in the Bible and the Koran. Istanbul-based Oktar, who writes under the pen name Harun Yahya, has created waves in the past few years by sending out thousands of unsolicited texts advocating Islamic creationism to ... read full post picked by Jetka 4 months ago

If the trends of the past three decades continue, it's possible that every American adult could be overweight 40 years from now, a government-funded study projects. picked by karenben 4 weeks ago

A few years ago, a number of brave intelligent men and women from the land of JaxWorth set out for the shores of Nova Roma. This was the New World discovered in the 15th century by Roman sailors traveling across the Pacific in search of a route to trade with India. Basically it was a shared-world created by Donteatpoop, Icepigs, and others. They imagined a world where Rome never fell and went o... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago

Pictorial view of how the war 10 years ago affected the Falkland Islands picked by Mattsaw 1 year ago

Recently, through a “meant-to-be” series of events, Oakley was able to reunite the discovery with its original owner, 16 years after he lost it.

*Start Twilight Zone theme music now* picked by jhordie 4 months ago

Some families seem blessed with eternal youth, looking much younger than their years. Now, astronomers have found just such a clan of icy objects in the outer solar system. They appear puzzlingly fresh-faced, despite the fact that they probably formed in a collision more than a billion years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

A court in N'Djamena, Chad, has sentenced six aid workers from the Zoe's Ark organisation to eight years of hard labour in relation to the kidnapping one hundred and three children and attempting to take them out of the country (mostly into Europe) picked by pocksucket 8 months ago

The Pakistani government has released from jail an Indian man who had spent 35 years on death row.

Not a single visitor in that time! picked by topofall 6 months ago

Human civilisation might have been millions of years more advanced today had it not been for massive chains of undersea volcanoes that erupted billions of years ago. New research has found that the birth of the oxygen-rich atmosphere we breathe was delayed 200 million years by marine volcanoes that destroyed the vital gas almost as fast as it was being exhaled by early bacteria. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A SHEARER wrongfully convicted of murdering a sharefarmer 69 years ago has been recommended for a pardon by the deputy state coroner, 30 years after his death. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

When the magnetic poles reverse, a number of changes will probably occur. Communications and navigational equipment, even the composition of the atmosphere could all be affected. The reversals happen on the average every 200k years. It has been 400k years since the last one. And a year since the last omg warning. :-) picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

Recently put on display after being locked in vault for 60 years. It's pretty tame by todays standards but the model is (GASP) holding a cigarette. picked by tigertony 1 month ago

Mitchell Spero said he has spent 10 years training his pet turtle to do things like sit, heel, stay and roll over. Spero, a psychologist, said his turtle, Florida, has helped children deal with the trials and tribulations of life. picked by misswinkle 9 months ago