Don’t forget to duck: Giant Shoebill picks up feathered friend after he blocks his path
Don’t forget to duck: Giant Shoebill picks up feathered friend after he blocks his path

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:28 PM on 05th November 2009
This duck got himself all in a flap after inadvertently straying into the path [...]

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PORTUGAL: Bible Is “A Catalogue of Cruelties,” Says Saramago - IPS ipsnews.net
Bible Is “A Catalogue of Cruelties,” Says Saramago
By Mario de Queiroz

LISBON, Oct 21 (IPS) - After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which [...]

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Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away < Killing the Buddha
Spaceship Jesus Will Come Back and Whisk Us Away
by Frank Schaeffer

The disastrous politics of Rapture, in an excerpt from Patience with God.

But what is this unknown something with which the Reason collides when inspired by its paradoxical passion, with the result of unsettling [...]

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Lost Chaplin film sold on eBay for $5.68 - thestar.com

Lost Chaplin film sold on eBay for $5.68
November 06, 2009
Lesley Ciarula Taylor

Charlie Chaplin fans were seizing on the news Friday that a lost film of the comic genius had been found on eBay for $5.68.
Morace Park, who lives in Essex, England, bought the battered olive green [...]

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