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Stop Attacking People, Gerald
In Oakland, Calif., Gerald the turkey has been an institution for some time, regularly queueing up with carpool riders near Morcom Rose Garden. But lately, Gerald has grown grumpy and started attacking park visitors,
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Booze Monkey Sentenced To Life
Kalua, an infamous alcoholic mon-key in Kanpur, India, has been sentenced to live out his days in isolation. The ani-mal once belonged to a local occultist who gave him alcohol. After the owner died,
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MREs
When I was a 12-year-old kid living on the West Coast, my best friend and neighbor, Scott, and I were always hanging out and getting into something. Like most adventurous boys, when the mundane
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A LONG, STRANGE TRIP SO FAR
Tigers Defense Struggles To Gain Traction In Re-Arranged Schedule Story By Ron Higgins It has been nine months since LSU accepted the national championship trophy after blasting Clemson in a Mercedes-Benz Superdome confetti shower. Heisman
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Size 75 Shoes For Social Distancing
Cobbler Grigore Lup of Cluj, Romania, was disturbed to see people ignoring social distancing guidelines put in place for the COVID-19 pandemic. So he created a pair of size-75 (European) men’s shoes, each of
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Burmese Python Snakeskin Masks
Brian Wood, owner of All American Gator Products in Dania Beach, Fla., is taking face masks to a whole new level by fashioning coverings made with the skin of Burmese pythons. “Some people want
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What Daddy Left Behind
By Madelaine B. Landry My father left us in 1980, too young at age 62. Daddy wasn’t a wealthy man; so mostly what he passed on to his children could be shared, not spent.
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There’s A Buried Car In My Yard
When a man in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, England, set out to build a deck in his back garden, he uncovered a mystery. As John Brayshaw, 40, began digging post holes, he unearthed an automobile
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Music School Gets New Studio
The SWLA Music School has moved into a large new studio space at 343 Broad St., between Mama Reta’s and Panorama Music House. The Music School will be housed in the back section of
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The Right To Remain Silent
A Conversation With Author Madelaine Landry By Sabrina Dowies Madelaine Landry was a third-grade student at St. Julian Eymard School in Algiers, La., when her principal announced the news of President John F. Kennedy’s
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