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This is a great example of how you are turned away from looking at things you aren't supposed to look at. It's also fairly funny.
Could Italy's election be postponed?
REEDSBURG, Wis. - An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the district office.
Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.
Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.
As many of you know, laughter has always been my bailiwick. Well, April is National Humor Month, so we should celebrate with great gusto. I don't know why April is the month to celebrate humor, but it might have something to do with April Fools' Day.
Did you know that you now have 96 fewer bones in your body than when you were born? There's a lot more you never knew to ask.
A man faces five years in jail after being accused of assaulting a teenager with a hedgehog. William Singalargh, 27, is said to have thrown the hedgehog from 15ft away during a row with the unnamed 15-year-old.
"When it hit the victim in the leg, it caused a large red welt and several puncture marks," said a police source in Whakatane, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
"When it hit the victim in the leg, it caused a large red welt and several puncture marks," said a police source in Whakatane, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.
The evocative question 'Is there anybody there?' conjures up images of mediums summoning spirits in a darkened room. But now psychics must add a few riders before they invoke the voices of the dead, thanks to new consumer laws due to come into force. Breathless audiences are now likely to be asked: 'Is there anybody here... who is vulnerable, of nervous disposition, or likely to sue?'
A landmark decision to ban a film showing Christ being caressed on the cross on the grounds that it was blasphemous could be reversed after almost 20 years.
The 1989 ruling by the British Board of Film Classification to refuse a release licence for Visions of Ecstasy, a low- budget film depicting the 16th-century Spanish mystic St Teresa of Avila caressing the body of Jesus on the cross provoked a national furore.
The 1989 ruling by the British Board of Film Classification to refuse a release licence for Visions of Ecstasy, a low- budget film depicting the 16th-century Spanish mystic St Teresa of Avila caressing the body of Jesus on the cross provoked a national furore.
An Oxford college is staging an Inspector Morse-style murder mystery game to introduce more working-class boys to the historic university.
About 50 pupils from state schools in the South East will take part in the three-day "Murder in the Cloisters" event at Pembroke College.
Tutors said the teenagers would have to follow a trail of clues based on academic subjects.
They would interview suspects after finding a body in the college quad.
About 50 pupils from state schools in the South East will take part in the three-day "Murder in the Cloisters" event at Pembroke College.
Tutors said the teenagers would have to follow a trail of clues based on academic subjects.
They would interview suspects after finding a body in the college quad.
A list of fine European foods that includes Champagne, Parma ham and Whitstable oysters has a new member - the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie.
After a 10-year battle, the famous pie has been given EU recognition, which means it is an official delicacy that requires protection.
After a 10-year battle, the famous pie has been given EU recognition, which means it is an official delicacy that requires protection.
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| Protected: A Melton Mowbray pork pie made by Leicestershire producers to a traditional recipe |
