Some of the following may not be blogs in the traditional sense anymore, having evolved into “New Media” I don’t have an expression to call them, so I’m calling them blogs. I am not considering my own projects, either, Terrorist Death Watch and America’s North Shore Journal. These are unrelated, and my selection was unsought.

Blackfive: [...]

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Preying on the troops.

Six states, six husbands, one woman
Wellsville Daily Reporter
By John Anderson
Investigative work from three people — two unlikely — helped solve a bizarre case that spanned six states and marriages to six men by one woman.
Shauna Marie McDonald, originally from Oregon, is legally Shauna Keith. She is 27 and in the Walton County [...]

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The Sun
A GANG of crooks is robbing long-distance coaches by smuggling dwarves into their holds inside sports bags.
Once inside the buses the tiny thieves slip out from their hiding place to rifle through the belongings of travellers above them.
They then take their loot back to their hiding place and wait to be collected [...]

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Would you trade a lumberjack for a burlesque dancee?
You’ll see an answer if you watch ABC’s series “Wife Swap”.
Hornell Evening Tribune
A Canisteo native who spends her time working honing her axes, swapped lives this summer with a burlesque dancer from Seattle - courtesy of ABC.
Andrea Robarge, now of Naples, was sent across the country as [...]

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How bad do things have to be for you to pose as a fake eunuch? The Asia Times addresses this sad state of affairs.
Local authorities in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh face a perplexing problem. The authenticity of some of the area’s eunuchs is in question, and officials claim they’re powerless to resolve [...]

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In order to play many stringed instruments, you use a bow. Professional quality bows are made by hand, using a remarkably small set of materials. Today’s Democrat & Chronicle talks about a local bow maker and his fight to preserve the trees that supply the only wood used in the process.
Reinfeld didn’t realize exactly how [...]

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Earthtimes
India’s eastern state of Orissa has lodged a protest with the US government seeking action against a California-based website for hurting religious sentiments of people by selling undergarments with images of Hindu gods, a newspaper reported Friday. Hindu priests and religious groups had slammed the website, cafepress.com, for selling undergarments embellished with faces of several [...]

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The answer is to be found in Lapland, it seems.
Or was that Lapdanceland?
Telegraph
Now Dr Samuli Helle, University of Turku, has found the answer with the help of a study of the nomadic Sami, the “reindeer people” of Finland.
Finnish parish records from the 17th to 19th century on three Sami populations, who depended on reindeer herding, [...]

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I assume they used a hair club?
Telegraph
Prabir Das, of Dispur in Assam, told police that his fiancé yanked off his hairpiece after dinner last week and began beating and abusing him for hiding his pate.
Her parents then joined in, ripping his expensive wig apart and relieving the 33-year-old of his wallet, mobile phone, motorbike and [...]

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news.com.au

Australian women, who fitted a petite 12B a decade ago, are a shapely 14C.
Julie Malandin, general manager of bra maker Berlei, which conducted a study, said women were “bigger”.
Fitters measured more than 2000 women throughout Australia and found 80 per cent wore the wrong size bra.
“Women should get measured once a year or every two [...]

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Telegraph
Aliens were responsible for a series of unexplained fires in fridges, TV’s and mobile phones in an Italian village, according to an Italian government report.
Canneto di Caronia, in northern Sicily, drew attention three years ago after residents reported everyday household objects bursting into flames.
TV news footage at the time showed electrical appliances as well [...]

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