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Nokia Lumina 920: Most Innovative Smartphone In The World?

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Let us list the great innovators of our most recent century: In fiction, James Joyce; in popular music, John Lennon; in film, Stanley Kubrick; in pornography, Ron Jeremy; in frozen food, Hot Pockets; in screen savers, the 3D maze with the brick walls that you travel through; in reality television shows, “The Mole” with Anderson [...]
French Alps Shooting: 4 Found Shot Dead In Car Near Chevaline

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PARIS — Four people were found shot to death on a forest road in the French Alps on Wednesday, their bodies left in and near a car with British license plates, authorities said. A girl discovered at the site with bullet wounds was hospitalized. Police combed the wooded hills around the village of Chevaline into [...]
Costa Rica Earthquake 2012: 7.6 Magnitude Quake Hits Costa Rica

September 6, 2012 | More

CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and neighboring countries Wednesday, sending panicked people into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami alert, but causing little damage. Authorities reported one confirmed death. “When we felt the earthquake, we held onto each other because we kept falling,” said Rosa Pichardo, 45, who [...]
Michael Clarke Duncan Funeral: Public Memorial Service At Forest Lawn Memorial Parks And Mortuaries

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LOS ANGELES — Michael Clarke Duncan’s life will be celebrated with a public casket viewing and a private service next week. Duncan spokeswoman Joy Fehily said Wednesday that the Oscar-nominated actor’s casket will be on view from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries [...]

AMAZING video of a twirling Finback Whale

tambapress | June 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

“They circled the wagon,” Hartmann said. “We couldn’t leave. They almost had us imprisoned.”

A whale-watching boat captain on something of a boatman’s holiday captured video Wednesday of a whale ballet — a fin whale twirling as it passed beneath his boat.

Larry Hartmann, who runs cruises for Dana Wharf Sportfishing & Whale Watching, was on a yacht with friends on his day off when eight to 10 fin whales began circling the craft Wednesday morning. They were about 14 miles off Dana Point.

But the fin whales showed no hostility. Hartmann guessed they might have been driven by curiousity as they lingered near the boat for two hours.

“It was a little tight,” he said. “The boat isn’t that big. But they were very gentle, very nice.”

Hartmann, who says he sees fin whales perhaps once a week at this time of year on his whale-watching tours, curiosity might have driven one of the whales to twirl as it passed beneath the boat.

“We were thinking it was just trying to get a better look at us,” he said.

Male fin whales can grow to nearly 60 feet in length.