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7. desember 2002
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RIP Bigfoot
Ray L. Wallace just died from heart attack, and his family now reveals that he was the man behind the Bigfoot legend. Wallace created a number of footprints that originated the north-american version of cryptozoological myths as a prank, and after that it grew and got a life of its own.
Unnecessary to say, True BelieversTM refuse to accept that they have fallen for a prank. Much like crop circle believers.
11:00:40 PM 
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Thoughts from "the other side"
A real live preacher has joined our blog community, and is sharing his thoughts about his life as a preacher in Texas. The secular blasphemer has made little secret about being quite critical to religious preaching, but enjoys reading the preacher's thoughts. The Raven has already posited a few pointed questions, nicely answered by the preacher.
10:21:40 PM
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Miss Turkey on top of the World
The battered Miss World competition, relocated from Nigeria to London after a newspaper article sparked violent protest among Muslims, ends with a surprise winner from a Muslim country. Azra Akin (picture) from Turkey became Miss World. Akin, who is 21 years old tomorrow, grew up in the Netherlands with Turkish parents.
Runners-up were Miss Columbia and Miss Peru. Norway's Kathrine Sørland was number four.
Traditionally criticised by feminists in the west as degrading for women, many left-wingers, including London Mayor Ken Livingstone, criticised the decision to hold this year's beauty pageant.
The security was strong, but no protests or disturbances were reported.
8:57:15 PM
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Two Van Gogh paintings stolen in the Netherlands
 Two famous Van Gogh paintings, View of the Sea at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen (picture), have been stolen from the Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum.
This is the second serious art theft in Holland this week; on Monday thieves got away with valuable gems in Der Haag.
Apparently a very professional job. Unscrupulous art collectors sometimes "order" such famous pieces of art, and if the theft remains successful, the world may never see the valuable pieces again.
5:57:03 PM
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Iraqi weapons dossier ready
Iraq has revealed to journalists a massive weapons dossier, 11,807 pages, due to be given to UN ahead of the deadline. The content is still not known.
Iraq will keep insisting it has no weapons of mass distruction, and the dossier is therefor likely to fall short of British and American demands.
4:14:54 PM
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Blix asks Bush to share Iraq secrets
Hans Blix, the arms inspections leader, asked the US administration to share some of their intelligence with the UN, to help searching for Iraq's weapons.
The US can hardly fault the UN for not doing its job well enough if they fail to tell the arms inspectors where to look. That, of course, is assuming the Bush administration really wants the arms inspections regime to work, not only use its failure as an excuse for war.
4:50:40 AM
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Last update: 01.01.03; 03:59:55.
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