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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Rice fills the bowls on many Chinese tables -- and also the cracks in its ancient buildings, and maybe even the Great Wall, Xinhua news agency reported.
"The legend that ancient Chinese craftsmen used glutinous rice porridge in the mortar while building ramparts has been verified," it said in a report seen on Monday.
― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a "cultural destabilization plot," according to an Australian magazine.
In an interview published in the March edition of Australia's GQ magazine, Crowe said FBI agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in "Gladiator."
"That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase 'al Qaeda,' " Crowe said. "It was about -- and here's another little touch of irony -- taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot," he added.
Crowe was born in New Zealand and has a ranch in eastern Australia but made his name in Hollywood.
It was not clear if there were other targets in the plot.
Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired private security guards.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)
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Woman Accused Of Naked Dog WrestlingFriend Says Woman Has Been Acting Strangely Recently
UPDATED: 11:42 am EST March 4, 2005
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A 40-year-old woman described as a transient was jailed in Grand Junction -- accused of jumping a fence to wrestle naked with a dog.
An arrest affidavit indicated that Katherine Earle scaled the four-foot fence just before midnight Tuesday, then stripped in order to wrestle with the male Labrador retriever-blue heeler mix.
Residents of the home awoke from the noise and called police.
Responding officers said Earle told them she was having sex with the dog, and that she does it all the time. The dog's owner, Six Starr, said that Earle has been friendly with the dog, but that Earle has been acting strangely for the past six months.
“What took place last night, I don’t even want to guess,” Starr told the Grand Junction Sentinel.
The dog wasn't injured, according to KMGH-TV in Denver.
Police arrested Earle on a previous warrant and took her to the Mesa County Jail to serve a 25-day sentence.
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Police said they raided Patricia Tabram's home after a tip-off in May last year and found 31 cannabis plants along with hydroponic cultivation equipment. In a later raid they found 47 bags of "skunk", a particularly strong form of the drug, with a street value of around GBP12,000.
Tabram, from East Lea in the north east of England, who said she ate cannabis in food to alleviate pains in her neck and back, pleaded guilty to possession of the drug with intent to supply.But Judge David Hodson said he would not make a "martyr" of her when she returned to Newcastle Crown Court for sentencing. Instead, she received a six-month suspended prison sentence.
Outside the court, she said she intended to keep taking the drug "because it is far better than any tablets you can get from the doctor".
The grey-haired granny has become a symbol for those who want Britain to legalise pot. She is even writing a book, called "Grandma Cooks With Cannabis".
― Si Carter (Si Carter), Friday, 8 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)
http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/iowa-ruler-guy-739208
It is unclear from the complaint whether the rulers were homemade.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 25 September 2016 16:13 (eight years ago)