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Fossil Fragments Reveal 500-million-year-old Monster Predator

sciencedaily.com • Wed 2009 Mar 25, 10:54pmHurdia victoria was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal. Now, researchers from Uppsala University and colleagues reveal it to be just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal that has an important story to tell about the origin of the largest group of living animals, the arthropods. ... Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part of a crustacean-like animal. It was not then realised that other parts of the animal were also in collections, but had been described independently as jellyfish, sea cucumbers and other arthropods. ... had a segmented body with a head bearing a pair of spinous claws and a circular jaw structure with many teeth. But it differs from Anomalocaris by the possession of a huge three-part carapace that projects out from the front of the animal's head.

Three men die trying to saw through war-era bomb

news.com.au • Mon 2009 Mar 23, 11:50pm

THREE Vietnamese men were killed while trying to saw through a war-era shell to salvage metal and explosives.... "The poor men wanted to sell the metal for money. They could not escape the sudden blast...." more than 38,000 Vietnamese nationals have been killed and 100,000 injured by explosives left over from the Vietnam War

California prison releases Charles Manson picture

reuters.com • Thu 2009 Mar 19, 4:08pm

California corrections officials released a new photograph of imprisoned mass murderer Charles Manson on Thursday, showing the balding, gray-bearded killer at the age of 74. [Still has swastika tat, doesn't really have the manic eyes anymore, but still an a'hole.]

Gerald Ford's Role in the JFK Assassination Cover-Up by Don Fulsom

crimemagazine.com • Tue 2009 Mar 10, 11:26pm

Newly released documents show, however, that Warren Commission member Congressman Gerald Ford pressed the panel to change its description of the wound and place it higher in Kennedy's body. Ford wanted the wording changed to: "A bullet had entered the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine." The panel's final version was: "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."

Germany raids over 200 suspected neo-Nazi premises

uk.reuters.com • Wed 2009 Mar 4, 5:53pm

German police have launched a nationwide search of more than 200 homes and businesses of people suspected of belonging to the country's extreme right.... "The primary aim of the concerted action by crime fighting authorities is to seize and confiscate prohibited items like music in order to move effectively and extensively against the spread of right wing extremism...." [Prohibited items like music??]

George Washington Denied His Due

nypost.com • Tue 2009 Feb 17, 10:18pm

stone carvers got George Washington's words wrong on the landmark Manhattan Supreme Courthouse

William Zantzinger, Villain in Dylan Song, Dies

rateyourmusic.com • Sat 2009 Jan 10, 10:49pm

William Zantzinger, a Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, found dead

usatoday.com • Wed 2008 Nov 12, 11:19pm

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He was 61.

German History: Auschwitz blueprints surface in Germany

welt.de • Tue 2008 Nov 11, 10:29pm

The original construction plans believed used for a major expansion of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1941 have been found in a Berlin flat, Germany's Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. The daily printed three architect's drawings on yellowing paper from the batch of 28 pages of blueprints it obtained. One has an 11.66 metre by 11.20 metre room marked "Gaskammer" (gas chamber) that was part of a "delousing facility".