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Environmental Issues [Filtered, stifled & blocked by Google!]

Homo Erectus

Did you think Homo erectus [Latin: "upright man"] was an extinct species? Think again!

Pathology of Non-evolved Minds

France


French president Nicolas Sarkozy (R) gives flowers to British author and Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling during an award ceremony where she was named knight of the Legion of Honour, the highest civilian distinction in France, at the Elysee presidential (Benoit Tessier/AFP/Getty Images)  http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/11428/

J.K. Rowling reassured French readers of her hugely successful Harry Potter series on Tuesday that she had nothing against their country despite giving her arch-villain a French name, Voldemort. The award was  created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802. (Reuters)

United Kingdom

ATHENS (Reuters) – Nine British women were facing prostitution charges after being arrested at the weekend for taking part in an oral sex competition in the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos, police said on Monday. Around 15 million people — a fifth of them British — visit the eastern Mediterranean country each year.

Russia

Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday. “A pack of cement used in creating … good weather in the capital region … failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole about 80-100 cm (2.5-3 ft),” police in Naro-Fominsk told agency RIA-Novosti. A spokesman for the Russian Air Force refused to comment.

Norway

Finland

Finland (again)


The suspect in the fatal shooting at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland [Photo is a frame grab taken from footage released to media September 23, 2008.]  Had he been slightly more intelligent, pulling the trigger in the correct sequence, i.e., shooting himself in the brain first, he could earned himself a …

Canada

Iceland

Japan

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