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With Christmas just a few days off, the endless replays of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" are no doubt a-ringing in your ears. But have you stopped to think about the carol's mathematical aspects?
It's the season for giving but don't expect any two-for-one deals from the Beer Store. Grey County OPP say a man who came up with what must have seemed like a clever idea to scam a local beer store may end up with criminal charges.
Harold von Braunhut, who used comic-book advertisements to sell whimsical mail-order inventions like Amazing Sea Monkeys, tiny shrimp that pop to life when water is added, died Nov. 28 at his home in Indian Head, Md. He was 77.
Several million people like me have no sense of smell. The medical term for the condition is "anosmia." Those afflicted are anosmiacs, though, no surprise, some of us prefer to be known simply as Nozzies.
The state's highest court decided that dog fancier Jon H. Hammer was barking up the wrong tree. The Court of Appeals said in a 6-0 ruling that Hammer cannot get the courts to change the breed standards for Brittany spaniels that were established by the American Kennel Club and American Brittany Club.
Hundreds of Spaniards took to the streets, spraying cava sparkling wine, as they celebrated winning a slice of $2.24 billion in one of the world's biggest lotteries.
A 26-year-old jobless Japanese man threw thousands of US one dollar bills from the observatory of a television tower in Nagoya, a major city in central Japan.
A large saltwater crocodile dragged a young Australian man to his death in an outback river and then stalked his two companions as they clung to a tree in the middle of the river for 22 hours.
Gary and Karri Clark haven't forgotten their second Christmas together. He knew she wanted bathroom accessories, so he wrapped up a couple of gifts and waited. The toilet seat and towel rack didn't go over too well.
Long after four-letter words in standup comedy lost their ability to shock, Lenny Bruce — whose foul-mouthed rants started the trend — was posthumously pardoned for his 1964 obscenity conviction.
You've heard the expression that "X" number of spectators attended a game or sporting event disguised as empty seats? Well, Las Vegas Motor Speedway is taking the opposite approach. It is taking empty seats and disguising them as spectators.
Three days after an Internet auction site began offering what it claims is an erased tape of a secret 1976 Beatles reunion, the owner of the Los Angeles studio in which the band allegedly convened called the reunion "pop urban legend."
Mervin Whipple, known as "Mr. Christmas" to Connecticut locals, has decided to pull the plug on his brilliant, gigantic holiday light display that once lured viewers from across the nation.
MediaNews Services Inc., parent of the Charleston Daily Mail, has accused a New York man of cybersquatting in a federal lawsuit that seeks to shut down a Web site with an address similar to the newspaper's site.
