2004 'Janet Jackson' becomes biggest search term in web history following 'revealing' Superbowl performance
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Priests in ancient Egypt plucked every hair from their bodies including eyebrows and eyelashes.
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Meet the next junior minister:
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3430481.stm [depracated, archived link]
The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
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Like ice cream vans at a rave they plough the streets looking for broken glass.
The Polish Bloomless have a different posture. Stocky guy in a Lech Walelsa Tash. Sitting outside a restaurant back door on a step amongst butts. Eyes shut, very still. Freezing morning. Another guy is splayed out unconcious across the Aluminium Bridge where he took a hit and begged. His hood is pinned to the railings to stop him blowing away, he's so skinny, and he stretches nearly half way across the bridge.
One is wearing jeans and a sports jacket. One is in a tracksuit. One is poorly groomed. One is not groomed at all.
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Sirens stopped. Have their hearts quit beating yet?
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They're back, in spades. I can tell the VIP sirens from the emergency sirens, from the prison run sirens. There's almost a keening lament they play when a prisoner has been sent down for life. There's a banshee tone for when someone's injured/dead. A Presidential fanfare of slow swirling sounds wrapping the notable in aural cotton puff.
I can tell the mix of emergency vehicles without seeing them. Bikes, cruisers, pandas, ambulance, fire, bullet proof limos. I joke that there's even a special siren for the chicken and chips run.
I know the second a crime is discovered. I can predict when we'll be on the news from the patterns of acoustic scorch marks left on the air.
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The doppler discordant soloist whirdles through a middle eight of distemper in traffic.
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Group noun for sirens: a valkyrie of sirens. I think I'm qualified to propose.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie
