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Daily Archives: September 6, 2011
Pig Paper # 10b March 1979: The Ugly Ducklings and punk gossip from Toronto Reply
My next installment of what will eventually be the full set of archives.
This issue of the Pig Paper came out March 1979 and features the Ugly Ducklings and punk gossip in Toronto. More…
Pig Paper # 10a Feb 1979: The Diodes fired by CBS Reply
My next installment of what will eventually be the full set of archives.
This issue came out in February 1979 and has the piece with the Diodes getting fired by CBS! More…
The Princeton Random Generator that “predicted” 9/11 2
(Sept 6, 2011) Now with the Ten-Year Anniversary of 9/11 only a few days away, stories and facts have yet re-emerged like a hungry bear from it’s den after a long winters hibernation.
Therefore, while perusing the internet, I came across The Telegraphs “21 Awful Truths About 9/11“…
OMG!…. Here is number eight on the list:
“Three hours before the attacks, a machine called a Random Event Generator at Princeton University predicted a cataclysmic event was about to unfold.”
Roselle, the guide dog who saved her blind master in Tower One on 9/11 1
Here is an excerpt from Michael Hingson, who is blind, about his faithful guide dog, Roselle, who led him down 78 flights of stairs in Tower One of the World Trade Center on that fateful date of 9/11/2001.
“It is strange for me to be writing this article while I have feelings of both sadness and joy in my heart. Nevertheless, it is something which must be done.
‘Happy feet’ penguin returns to Antarctica Reply
(FP Photo Above/HO/Department of Conservation NZ)
A lost penguin is getting a lift home to Antarctica on a New Zealand research vessel.
FIGHTING FIT AND cheeky as ever, the world’s most famous emperor penguin is set to leave Kiwi captivity for his Antarctic home. Happy Feet captured the world’s attention in June when he washed up on a beach north of Wellington, more than 3000km from home.
Sandia Ranch Sanatorium: An abandoned, haunted insane asylum Reply
This old asylum is one of our local urban legends. Stories of botched lobotomies and murder are a few that circulate around. From my own personal visit… it is very eerie to say the least.
Click on the picture to view the entire slideshow of this asylum.
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