German City by the Danube Is Tested by a Different Kind of Flood
The mayor, a large man with a distinctive Bavarian lilt, is not easily shaken. Passau, Mr. Dupper said, is practiced in Her daytime job is in a souvenir shop, selling cuckoo clocks and the gingerbread-like lebkuchen. A border town since Roman days ...
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November 7, 2015
Two Pop Culture Wars: First Over Comics, Then Over Music
well-known performers in the forefront. Few pushed harder than Frank Zappa, the former leader of the rock group the Mothers of Invention. Mr. Zappa, who died in 1993, sneered at these mothers of intervention, dismissing them as “the wives of Big ...
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October 25, 2015
Well | Trying to Beat My 25-Year-Old Self
My times sped up, but even after I crushed my time goal in a one-mile road race, I didn't think of trying for the 5K P.R., especially after I fell in the Sloppy Cuckoo Quarter Marathon on Oct. 11 and bashed up my knee. I pulled back on When I got ...
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December 10, 2015
Fans' Love-Hate Relationship With the Star Wars Franchise
In his basement Mr. Giunta has a life-size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite. (It's what happened to Harrison Ford's character in “The Empire Strikes Back”). Part of Mr. Giunta, who loved the original three Star Wars films, wants to be thrilled ...
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November 4, 2015
Neighbors, Acquaintances Shocked That Couple Are San Bernardino Shooting Suspects
Police later found the couple kept large stocks of ammunition. “They had over 1,400 .223- caliber rounds and 200 9mm rounds available to them,” San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said. In a home connected to the couple in nearby Redlands, Calif....
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December 4, 2015
Running: Need a cuckoo clock to time this quarter marathon
Much like the LBI 18, this race is used by a lot of runners as part of marathon training - either to do a 20-mile training run with aid stations and support or to get in a long run at harder effort to see where they're at in preparing for the big 26.2 ...
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August 21, 2015
Make Way for Those Holland Dames
even more excited—“tickled” is the word she used—to acquire the frame that came with the document. The rustic frame, which was described as looking like “a cuckoo-clock frame,” was made from a pear tree that Stuyvesant imported from Holland in 1647....
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October 20, 2015
Researcher studies communal nesting in birds
Credit: Christina Riehl, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Balanced in a small boat on the reedy edge of a Panama lake, Christina Riehl rigged a camera above the nest of a bird called the greater ani, a species of cuckoo that lives in Central ...
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January 18, 2016
Tim Peake historic spacewalk ends early
New flight rules were brought into effect after a similar incident took place in 2013, when Luca Parmitano had a large amount of water fill his helmet ... The broken unit - a voltage regulator - is about the size of a 30-gallon aquarium.
investmentunderground.com
January 18, 2016
Apple iPhone 7 with no headphone jack, iOS 9.3 and more: All the rumours
Smart screen filtering support will let the device combine the clock and ... 6s and iPhone 6s Plus come with chips from both Samsung and TMSC. The report notes that the Apple’s A10 processor could be more efficient, and smaller in size allowing for ...
indianexpress.com
January 18, 2016
A brief visit to Nevada’s “Sin City”
Convention central A large slice of the Las Vegas pie is provided by the convention ... a refrigerator that will order your groceries; an alarm clock that wakes you up with the smell of coffee or chocolate; and a cupboard that steam-cleans your clothes ...
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January 17, 2016
Surprise holiday decorations appear overnight downtown
The shining red glow of my dashboard clock reads just after 11:45 p.m. With a brown paper shopping bag filled to the brim in one hand and my large, shimmering creation ... I guessed the size and width I would need well. I wish the bow/ornament creation ...
www.salina.com
January 16, 2016
Dispatches From Blogfrica: Maize n Brew Talks Iowa-Michigan Basketball
Though John Beilein has been asked about LeVert's status frequently for the past two-plus weeks, Beilein has revealed very little ... Not only does that include scoring in isolation late in the shot clock, it includes creating open looks for his teammates ...
www.blackheartgoldpants.com
January 17, 2016
Richardson ISD studying options to contain growth
With the clock ticking on a potential bond election ... but some also worry their school will grow too large. “I’ve asked and not received a satisfactory answer to, ‘What is the optimal size of an elementary school?’” said Alan Walne, a former ...
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January 17, 2016
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