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Man Sues After Using Glue-Covered Toilet.

Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom.

Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union.

Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults.

Leading Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana stirred up a media storm in Italy Thursday with its first ever photograph of a naked woman, part of an advertisement for a bathroom ventilation system.

A Dutch dentist who chopped off his finger and then faked a car crash before claiming 1.8 million euros ($2.2 million) from insurers was given a suspended sentence and fined by a court Thursday.

Two Italian boys were recovering in hospital on Tuesday after a 70-year-old man shot them with his hunting rifle because he was frightened by their Halloween costumes.

Someone stole $75,000 worth of bull semen from a Frederick County farm, the sheriff's office says. Eric Fleming said the six small canisters of frozen semen taken from a liquid nitrogen tank represented four to five years of collection work. I would hate to have the job of collecting. I bet the person that does that job is always called Jack.

For $600,000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy Denver neighborhood that comes complete with a bride.

"Young black kids didn't grow up wanting to be a pimp or a stripper like they do now," Spike Lee said of his youth in Brooklyn.

Does anyone read this?

Today in History
1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1679 Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1820 Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence
1839 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
1899 Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey
1900 1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Colombia grants Panama independence
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 1st class mail now costs $0.03
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1931 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1953 "Sacrifice fly" reactivated in baseball (1939)
1953 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1955 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands
1956 "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1973 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1982 Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cavalier shots tying NBA regulation game record
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for Presidency (D)
1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 John Lennon album, "Menlove Avenue" released
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 Minnesota Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, lose to Seattle, 106-94
1991 NYC Marathon winners are Salvador Garcia (Mex) & Liz McColgan (Scot)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President

Happy Birthday
1718 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin colonized Texas
1922 Charles Bronson Pennsylvania, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen)
1933 Michael S Dukakis (D-Gov-MA) (1988 Presidentidential Candidate)
1953 Dennis Miller Pittsburgh PA, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1959 Dolph Lundgren actor (Rocky IV)

Deaths
1926 Annie Oakley dies