August 2011
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A man purporting to be the top legal official in... →
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The resignation of the attorney general of Hama,...
I, the attorney general of Hama, Adnan Muhammad al-Bakkour, announce my resignation from my position in the state that is shadowed by Assad and his gangs. I summarize the causes of my resignation by the following:1. The killing of the prisoners in the “Central Prison of Hama” on Sunday 7/31/2011. Their number is 72 prisoners of the peaceful demonstrators and political...
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“By setting the story in 1984, before cell phones and e-mail and the Internet had...”
– Haruki Murakami on 1Q84 in The New Yorker. (via somethingchanged)
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70 Metal Books Found In Jordan Cave Could Change... →
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This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity.
Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.
On pages not much bigger than a credit card, are images, symbols and words...
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CNN - US military tests hypersonic aircraft →
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CNN - The US military is readying a test flight of an unmanned hypersonic aircraft capable of reaching any target in the world in less than an hour.
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