links for 2008-03-17
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By 1895, the Rio Grande – and the US – had moved south about 600 acres (2,4 sq. km), a disputed area known as El Chamizal.
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A map of the area codes in which Ludacris claims to have Hoes.
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The town of Büsingen am Hochrhein is one of two foreign enclaves enclosed within the territory of Switzerland.
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“While on vacation in Dubrovnik, Croatia this summer, we ran across an old Yugoslav atlas which included this map on the entry for the US.”
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An overabundance of kangaroos munching on native grasses near Canberra has left the government little choice but to kill some of the pesky marsupials.
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Imagine a bus shelter that grows extra-long roots for you to sit on and leafy greens as shade.
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A team at the University of Washington has created a contact lens assembled with functional circuitry and LEDs.
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Recently the national bank of Ethiopia discovered that much of the gold in its possession was fake.
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The UK has signed up to the Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences.
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A court in Sicily has ruled that an accused Mafioso can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail.
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It first appeared in 1929 in a special issue of ‘Variétés’, a Belgian magazine, dedicated to surrealism – an art form remembered for its absurdity, but less for its political views.
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Methylene blue is a water-soluble dye that can be used to assess whether a fistula is present or used as a medication.
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…Prolonged exposure can result in the infamously eye-catching condition known as argyria, in which the sufferer’s skin acquires a pronounced — and permanent — blue-gray hue.
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