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Couple claim mysterious noise plagues their house
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AP - Bob and Leona Ehrfurth say the noise that's been plaguing them for two years sounds something like a rumbling motor, with a subtle vibration that won't quit. Then it stops — especially when they try to show city officials or acoustic experts what they're hearing.
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Pet rabbit credited with saving couple from fire
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AP - A pet rabbit is credited with saving a couple from a fire that swept through their home in the southern city of Melbourne.
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Fish pedicures: Carp rid human feet of scaly skin
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 AP - Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.
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117 cats, raccoon, and rabbit found at Omaha home
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AP - Humane society workers have found 117 cats, a raccoon and a rabbit in a north Omaha house. The discovery came Wednesday after Council Bluffs, Iowa, police caught the 54-year-old woman who lives at the house reportedly stealing cat food. Officials say she smelled like cat urine.
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R.I. police say man had 0.491 blood alcohol level
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AP - State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead.
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Underwear chicken dare puts man in hospital
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Australian man's dare went horribly
wrong when he tried to play chicken with cars on a freeway
wearing only his underwear. The 18 year old was critically
injured after being hit by a four-wheel drive on a freeway in
the southern city of Melbourne in the early hours of Wednesday,
police said in a statement.
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In Portland, Ore., parking laws include police
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AP - Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.
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NASA to beam Beatles song into deep space |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
On February 4, NASA will digitally transmit the Beatles song Across the Universe in the direction of the star Polaris, commonly known as the North Star.
This will mark the first time music has been sent into deep space. The song will be transmitted from the DSS-63 radio antenna at the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain at 12:00 am UTC.
The broadcast celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song's recording, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, and the 50th anniversary of NASA itself.
Polaris is approximately 431 light years away from Earth, meaning it will take 431 years for the song to reach the star traveling at the speed of light.
NASA's press release includes statements from Beatle Paul McCartney, who tells NASA to "send [his] love to the aliens", and John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, who sees the event as "the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
The idea was hatched by Martin Lewis, a Los Angeles-based humorist and Beatles historian.
"It never had the highest profile and is a bit of a forgotten classic," Lewis said of the song. "But it has universal appeal. It transcends ages, borders, language and other barriers."
NASA invites astronomy fans and Beatles fans alike to play the song simultaneously as it is being transmitted into space. Information from: Wikinews, http://www.wikinews.org |
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