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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

UK drafting contingency plan for BP collapse!

LONDON, England - July 6, 2010 - Britain is drafting contingency plans should beleaguered energy giant BP collapse, the Times reported in its Tuesday edition.

The paper said officials from the Department of Business and the Treasury were holding talks about BP's future.
The report comes amid talk the oil major is seeking a strategic investor to fend off takeover bids.
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New ATM gives cash via biometric scan!

WARSAW, Poland - July 5, 2010 - Poland's cooperative BPS bank says it's the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM - allowing customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip.

The digit-scanning ATM, introduced in the Polish capital of Warsaw, runs on the latest in "finger vein" technology - an authentication system developed by Japanese tech giant Hita

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U.S. chicken McNuggets contain Silly Putty chemical!

LONDON, England - July 2, 2010 - Chicken McNuggets sold to Amerikan fast food lovers contain dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent used in Silly Putty.

They also have more calories and fat than those sold in the chain's British restaurants, according to a CNN study.

Four Amerikan McNuggets total 190 calories, 12 grams of fat and two grams of saturated fat. The eq

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Health overhaul may mean longer ER waits and crowding!

CHICAGO, Illinois - July 2, 2010 - Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health care law.

That might come as a surprise to those who thought getting 32 million more people covered by health insurance would ease ER crowding. It would seem these patients would be able to ge

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Lock of Napoleon's hair sells for $13,000!

AUCKLAND, New Zealand - June 30, 2010 - A lock of hair cut from Napoleon Bonaparte's head after he died has sold for US$13,000 at an auction in New Zealand.

Extra phone lines were installed for the sale to cope with an expected rush of international buyers seeking to snip up the hair cut from the head of the former French Emperor a day after his death in 1821 while he was in exile

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Sex drugs make you deaf!

By Dr. William Douglass

BALTIMORE, Maryland - July 1, 2010 - Viagra and other sex meds might make you hard all right - hard of hearing!

A new study finds yet another awful side effect of these dangerous penis pills: hearing loss. Add that to the vision problems already linked to Viagra, and you’ll be a real pro in the bedroom for sure.

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Did You Know?

The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the U.S. railroads.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pr