Got milk? How about 26 gallons of it? One man did, at least for a little while. And that man was dressed in a cow costume. In the category of You Can't Make This Stuff Up If You Tried, the 18-year-old crawled into a Stafford, Va., Walmart on all fours, reported PotomacLocal.com.
"It's like finding a sumo wrestler in a little 'Smart Car,'" said Don Neill, a member of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and lead author of a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Today, Frank Fennel's RCPAC released a statement claiming that the good Doctor has "absolutely no plans to run for office" in 2012, adding "unless my country needs me".
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The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.
It's fitting that a place called Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, would yield the discovery of a scary-looking creature. But it's not a ghost - it's a dinosaur.
MIT scientists have synthesized, for the first time, a crystal they believe to be a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: a solid material whose atomic spins continue to have motion, even at absolute zero temperature.
1) ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings. [Note: Our post last April reported that ExxonMobil was owed $46 million by the IRS.]
Two vegans who fed their 11-month-old daughter only mother's milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin deficiency.
Polish prosecutors investigating a secret CIA prison have asked U.S. authorities to question two Guantánamo Bay prisoners who allege they were held and abused in Poland.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) dispatched $25,000 to New Jersey's state Republican Party, building more support through financial support to state parties.
Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji.
The debate on genetically modified crops is gaining momentum again.
Lu Hao, a three year old toddler in China, weighed less than six pounds at birth. But he gained weight rapidly, and today tips the scales at an astonishing 132 pounds -- five times the normal size of a child his age.
AstraZeneca has settled a long-running tax dispute in a deal which sees HM Revenue & Customs refund tax payments that will now go to America instead.
Children at PS 29 in Brooklyn Heights are set to say the Pledge of Allegiance Monday for the first time in more than a decade.
The circuit court jury awarded $16.9 million in total damages Friday — laying blame at 70 percent for Bayer Crop Science and 30 percent for Riceland Foods — resulting in $11.9 million for Riceland Foods. Riceland also received $125 million in punitive damages.
Scientists have directly observed for the first time the merger of two closely orbiting stars. Experts have suggested for decades that such stars -- which whirl so close to each other that their outer layers actually touch — should ultimately commingle.
What do you do when you want your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend rubbed out? Why, you go to hitmanforhire.com, of course.
he Easter bunny came early this year for a few scientists working on the Spanish island of Minorca (see map). The team has just announced the discovery of Earth's biggest known rabbit species, an oddly unbunny-like giant dubbed Nuralagus rex—"the Minorcan king of the hares."
Fresh from American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer using what can be deemed as a racial slur to describe President Obama, the organization itself has begun making pointed but unproven assumptions regarding the President and the African-American vote in general.
Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. ABC News reports Taylor died early Wednesday morning of congestive heart failure. She had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The feds deported a 4-year-old Long Island girl - who is a U.S. citizen - after officials detained her grandfather while he was bringing her back from a visit to Guatemala. "I'm just shocked," the family's lawyer, David Sperling, said Tuesday.
Venezuelan dancer Javier De Frutos has choreographed the piece, a fairytale about a ruler who offers his daughter and half his kingdom in a contest. The result, writes Judith Mackrell in The Guardian, "stretches the concept of ballet into new terrain".
Giant bubbles of gamma-ray-emitting materials surrounding the Milky Way are created by our galaxy's central black hole – and its appetite for stars – according to an international team of astronomers.
Anonymous, a group of online hackers that frequently take up politically charged causes such as bringing down the websites for Visa and other credit card companies, has released a massive batch of internal Bank of America emails.
thank you for accepting me into the open mic group...take care roger
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Hehe ty. Its nice to meet you too! Any friend of Brad's is a friend of mine, and I promise to keep feeding him. I wouldn't want to deprive the Vine of his brilliance.
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Robin is my alexipharmic. If you don't know what that means then you should visit her trivia and word of the day columns.
Cash said it very well:
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You have an amusing taste. Keep it up.
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R. Warner is the kindest Newsviner.
Thank you for being you, and also for hugging Ansab in your new avatar :)
Thank you for always being there, even in the background of my life. I appreciate how you find a way to touch me, even in silence.
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R, thank you so much for your lovely comment. I really appreciated seeing it after what has been a trying day in places.
I'm looking very forward to getting to know you too. :) x
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I like better your new picture... you look more relaxed than in the previous one...
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