<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Coney Island Freaks of Yesterday and Today : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/wtf-/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51131</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51131/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Coney Island Freaks of Yesterday and Today]]></title><description><![CDATA[Although the first &#8220;freak show&#8221; at Coney Island opened in 1880, the golden age of the village&#8217;s side shows began in 1904 when Samuel W. Gumpertz opened Lilliputia, an entire miniature city scaled for its dwarf and midget inhabitants. Lilliputia became such a popular tourist attraction at Dreamland, Gumpertz spend many years afterwards finding and promoting human oddities. After Dreamland burned in 1911, he opened Dreamland Circus Sideshow. Other side shows soon opened, including The World Circus Freak Show, The Steeplechase Circus Big Show, Hubert&#8217;s Museum, The Strand Museum, and Wonderland Circus Side Show. Human oddities who worked in circuses and other traveling shows enjoyed the relative stability and permanence of Coney Island. Here are a few of the most popular.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>-36</score><crdate>2/18/2008 5:14:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-18T17:14:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33999</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33999/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mass Plague Graves Found on Venice Quarantine Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[Got the plague?  Onto the island.  Vomiting?  Onto the island.  Fever?  Island.  Sniffles with a mild cough?  You get the idea.  You stayed there until you got well or died.  Judging from the mass graves, not many got well.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>148</score><crdate>9/1/2007 1:01:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-01T01:01:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8232</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/8232/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Other Mystery of Easter Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><i>Should anyone find a workable translation for Rongorongo, the knowledge stored on the remaining tablets might explain the mysterious statues of Easter Island, the sudden appearance of the written language, and the island's history and customs as whole.</i></div>It doesn't take much to destroy a culture!]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>90</score><crdate>12/27/2006 6:37:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-27T18:37:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55850</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55850/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Three Mile Island cited for &quot;moderate to severe&quot; security problems]]></title><description><![CDATA[Of all the place I would not expect this...to those of you too young to recall, Three Mile Island is home to what almost became the American version of Chernobyl*.  <br/><br/>*If you are too young too know what Chernobyl was, freaking google it, I am too lazy to provide a link.  But it was a million laughs for sure.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>311</score><crdate>3/26/2008 2:35:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-26T14:35:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45880</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45880/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tiny Scottish Island Going Electric.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents of a tiny Scottish island have another special reason to celebrate the New Year, they will be connected to mains electricity for the first time.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>93</score><crdate>1/3/2008 2:44:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T02:44:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>16683</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/16683/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Island Uses Poop Plug to Fill a Volcano]]></title><description><![CDATA[The waste would be dumped on a side of the volcanic island that had been extensively quarried in the past 50 years. The island's original volcanic cone formation could also be rebuilt using the biosolids.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>51</score><crdate>4/16/2007 10:28:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-16T22:28:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>286</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/286/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Meredith Viera Joins The Today Show]]></title><description><![CDATA[Former 'The View' co-host Meredith Viera joined the Today show permanently today.  She took over Katie Couric's spot and NBC hopes to continue being the top rated show.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>19</score><crdate>9/13/2006 11:29:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-13T11:29:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9231</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/9231/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Set your dogs free - on Dog Island.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on Dog Island are healthy dogs who live a natural, healthy and happy life, free from the stress and hardship associated with daily live among humans.]]></description><comments>15</comments><score>197</score><crdate>1/18/2007 8:59:24 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-18T20:59:24+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18278</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18278/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Abandoned on a Tiny Shadeless Island for 15 years ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On July 31, 1761, the French ship L&#8217;Utile is shipwrecked on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. Only a handful of survivors remain when they are found 15 years later, in 1776.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>29</score><crdate>4/28/2007 6:31:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-28T06:31:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>55604</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/55604/1/</url><title><![CDATA[More man-made designer realty &#8211; Reef Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[...previously known as Lulu Island, is being re-launched with a brand new marketing push targeting high income investors and residents from across the Gulf.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>39</score><crdate>3/25/2008 6:24:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-25T06:24:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>8192</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/8192/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Yacht crew witnesses the birth of an island]]></title><description><![CDATA[In August 2006, the crew of the yacht Maiken, sailing out of the Vava'u island group, encountered a remarkable &quot;stone sea.&quot;  The phenomena they spotted were a series of pumice rafts resulting from a nearby eruption, one that was forming a new volcanic island in Tonga.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>123</score><crdate>12/26/2006 12:16:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-26T12:16:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52159</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52159/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lost on Gilligans Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[LOST merges with Gilligans Island.<br/><br/>I'm waiting for the Harlem Globetrotters to drop in on the island, personally.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>138</score><crdate>2/26/2008 5:40:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-26T17:40:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62590</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/62590/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Monster carnivorous mice overrun British-owned Gough Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A British owned island in the South Atlantic has been overrun by hundreds of thousands of monster mice which have evolved into carnivores.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>284</score><crdate>5/21/2008 1:14:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-21T01:14:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38455</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38455/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Quadraphonics - Goodbye My Coney Island Baby]]></title><description><![CDATA[And continuing the &quot;music that gives me shivers&quot; theme, I present The Quadraphonics performing &quot;Goodbye My Coney Island Baby&quot;.<br/><br/>Long live Barbershop!]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>93</score><crdate>10/16/2007 2:18:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-16T02:18:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>71103</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/71103/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Greek man beheads girlfriend on Santorini island]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 31-year-old Greek beheaded his girlfriend and carried her head round the popular tourist island of Santorini before he was arrested, police said on Sunday.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>207</score><crdate>8/4/2008 6:17:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-04T06:17:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13321</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/13321/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Headless Corpses of Easter Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[Easter Island is known for the hundreds of huge stone heads strewn across the countryside, it may soon be know for something else - the native cemetaries are filled with headless bodies.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>73</score><crdate>3/16/2007 8:06:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T08:06:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>21673</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21673/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island]]></title><description><![CDATA[International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>102</score><crdate>5/28/2007 10:51:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-28T10:51:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63755</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/63755/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Man to spend 300 days on Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[French explorer and adventurer, Xavier Rossetto will spend 300 days on a remote island- Robinson C. style. He will be making a documentary of his experience.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>209</score><crdate>5/30/2008 3:48:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-30T15:48:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74003</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74003/1/</url><title><![CDATA[6.1 Magnitude Earthquake hits Vancouver Island]]></title><description><![CDATA[CNN reports that this morning, Vancouver Island residents experienced an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale. It's apparently so recent that there is no other information on it. However, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.canada.com/ch/cheknews/news/story.html?id=b22ed254-8130-49b0-b76b-fef29c08c974" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vancouver's CHEK news</a> reported several smaller shocks yesterday.  Hope all our plimates there are OK.]]></description><comments>15</comments><score>427</score><crdate>8/28/2008 9:41:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-28T09:41:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17806</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/17806/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Old animal tracks 'show climate risks']]></title><description><![CDATA[Fossils of a hippopotamus-like creature on an Arctic island show the climate was once like that of Florida, giving clues to risks from modern global warming.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>38</score><crdate>4/25/2007 8:56:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-25T08:56:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10615</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10615/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Island rising from the sea]]></title><description><![CDATA[A crew encounters a remarkable &quot;stone sea&quot; and sees plumes of ash rising up from the middle of the ocean. They are seeing a rare volcanic eruption that results in an island, Maiken, created right before their eyes.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>21</score><crdate>2/12/2007 8:40:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-12T08:40:02+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>