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October 2005 DailyPicture.net Digest Of Entries
posted Friday, 4 November 2005
HALLOWEEN: The Horrible Haunted History Of All Hallow's Eve
October
31. Halloween. Costumes and Jack O'Lanterns. Trick or Treat and
bonfires. We generally see it as a harmless children's celebration. And
it is. Now. The history of Halloween dates back before Christianity and
involves human fears of all sorts.
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Monday, 31 October 2005 07:55 PM
Human Beings Can Now Be Controlled Remotely
We
wield remote controls to turn things on and off, make them advance,
make them halt. Ground-bound pilots use remotes to fly drone airplanes,
soldiers to maneuver battlefield robots. But manipulating humans?
Prepare to be remotely controlled.
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Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:55 AM
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Elmo Arrested For Harassing Tourists On Hollywood Boulevard
Los
Angeles police are cracking down after complaints that some costumed
impersonators on famed Hollywood Boulevard are shaking down visitors
along the Walk of Fame for tips. The Muppet, Elmo and Mr. Incredible
found themselves arrested and booked.
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:59 PM
Why Are Human Beings Still Killing Whales?
Have
we no respect for life anymore? Oh yeah, we don't. Come on world, don't
we kill enough of our own? The majestic whale does no harm to human
beings, as of yet, and most of the products that come from a whale can
now be reproduced artifically.
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Wednesday, 26 October 2005 11:59 PM
ROSA PARKS (1913-2005) Standing Up For Freedom By Sitting Down
Civil
rights pioneer, Rosa Parks, passed away at the age of 92. This brave
woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined in 1955 for violating a city
ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended
legal segregation in America
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Monday, 24 October 2005 11:44 PM
Hurricane Wilma Wreaks Havoc On Mexican Tourist Resorts
More
than 70,000 people, many of them foreign tourists, remained in
emergency refuge centers for a second night as slow-moving Wilma
pummeled the region with high winds and rains for 36 hours. The storm
wiped out electricity and telephone lines.
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Sunday, 23 October 2005 12:21 PM
MUGSHOT: US Congressman Tom Delay Arrested On Conspiracy In Texas
To
The Slammer With The Hammer! The crooked US Congressman Tom Delay, a
Republican from Texas, turned himself in on an arrest warrant for money
laundering and conspiracy charges. In his mugshot he is smiling as if
he didn't have a care in the world.
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Saturday, 22 October 2005 11:59 PM
Hurricane Wilma Becomes The Strongest Atlantic Storm Ever.
Hurricane
Wilma became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic.
Wilma reached 884mb of pressure to put this in perspective... Katrina
reached 902 mb and Rita bottomed out at 897 mb. This is only a
conservative estimate of Wilma's power.
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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:58 PM
Snake Hiding In UK Sewer Caught Coming Out Of Loo
A
10ft (3m) Boa Constrictor thought to have been living in sewage pipes
in a block of flats for three months has been caught on a bathroom
floor. The snake would have no problem travelling the waste pipes and
probably been surviving by eating rats.
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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:41 AM
19th Century Russian Prince Predicted Internet And Blogging
Prince
Vladimir Odoevsky, 1803-1869, was a gifted man, who composed music and
wrote science fiction stories. He suggested in future there would be a
kind of connection between houses and people would publish daily news
of their own for their friends.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2005 01:50 PM
China's Second Manned Shenzhou Space Mission Lands In Mongolia
China
accomplished their second manned space misison wihen the Shenzhou 6
capsule touched down at 4:32 a.m. (2032 GMT) in north China's Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday, Oct. 17, 2005. The space capsule
carried two Chinese astronauts.
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Monday, 17 October 2005 01:25 PM
Mystery Image Of Priest Appears On Chilean Church Wall
The
image of what appears to be a priest holding a child has mysteriously
appeared on a church wall in Chile. They believe it is a figure of the
late Father Hurtado, who looked after needy kids and due to be
canonised this month by Pope Benedict.
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Sunday, 16 October 2005 10:05 PM
Meet The Two-Tongued Cat From North Carolina
A
cat in Dobson, N.C., is believed to be the only cat in the world with
two tongues, according to a Local 6 News report. The cat, named Five
Toes, was born with two tongues and five toes on each paw. Owner Bill
Whittington told a North Carolina TV st
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Saturday, 15 October 2005 09:52 AM
The Next Five Natural Disasters To Hit The United States
What
natural disasters do scientists know are coming down the pipe? What
other creative ways will Mother Nature one day exact her revenge. The
disaster cannot be man-made and the scientific community must agree
that the event may actually happen.
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Wednesday, 12 October 2005 10:37 PM
Pakistani Earthquake Tragedy: Wrath Of God Or Natural Cycle Of Life?
The
recent Pakistani/Kashmiri earthquake is yet another natural disaster to
hit the planet in 2005. Is it looking like God is angry with us, to
you? Or rather, are we just caught up in the dark side of a bigger
natural cycle of living on planet earth
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Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:10 PM
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Symbology Of The Eye - The Window To The Soul
The
eyes are indeed the windows to the soul. The eye is a lens which allows
us to see and become consciously aware of our experience in third
dimension. The eye has a pupil. We are pupils in a university
experiencing reality through the lens of time.
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Saturday, 8 October 2005 05:13 PM
Super-Clear Sunspot Image Looks Like The Iris Of An Eye
This
amazing image is of a sunspot three times the size of the Earth. The
photograph was taken using the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar
Telescope at Sunspot, NM, which was recently upgraded with an adaptive
optics system.
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Friday, 7 October 2005 11:39 PM
Burmese Python Eats Alligator Then Bursts Open In Florida Everglades
In
this photo, the carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown
protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python in
Everglades National Park, after the snake apparently swallowed the
alligator resulting in the deaths of both animals.
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Thursday, 6 October 2005 11:59 PM
Burmese Python Eats Alligator Then Bursts Open In Florida Everglades
In
this photo, the carcass of a six-foot American alligator is shown
protruding from the mid-section of a 13-foot Burmese python in
Everglades National Park, after the snake apparently swallowed the
alligator resulting in the deaths of both animals.
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Thursday, 6 October 2005 02:04 PM
World Beard and Moustache Championships: Partial Beard Freestyle
Beard
Championship Contestant Willi Chevalier, entered in the category
partial beard, freestyle, poses in Berlin, Germany during the 2005
World Beard and Moustache Championships.
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Monday, 3 October 2005 01:36 PM
Two-Headed Tortise Found On River Bank In Havana Cuba
A
baby tortoise with two heads was found some days ago on a river bank at
the city forest in Havana, Cuba. According to scientists of the local
aquarium who inspected the animal, it seems to be perfectly healthy.
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