Thursday, March 17, 2011 Owsley Stanley, mass-producer of LSD, the drug underlying much of the culture of the 1960s California hippie era, died Sunday in a car accident in Australia at the age of 76, his family announced on Tuesday. According to The New York Times, “Mr. Stanley lent the ’60s a great deal of […]
Read MoreFind Out More About: Reverse Mortgage Loans Submitted by: Bima Deals The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has sold about 54,000 policies and collected premium of over Rs 213 crores within just four days of the launch of its new plan LIC Samridhi Plus. VINAY KUMAR SINHA, LIC zonal manager (north), spoke to THE […]
Read MoreSaturday, February 14, 2015 A University of Utah study published on Tuesday in The American Journal of Epidemiology suggests air pollution may increase suicide rates. The team analysed suicide records for over 1,500 people from Salt Lake County, Utah from 2000 through 2010. Comparing to air pollution exposure in the three days prior to death […]
Read MoreTuesday, January 31, 2006 Steve Kubby who was facing extradition from Canada, returned to California, was arrested, and is now in custody in Placer County, California Jail, pending a hearing today. He is a medical cannabis patient who relies on the drug to regulate the symptoms of malignant phenochromocytoma, a cancer of the adrenal gland […]
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Read MoreWednesday, June 8, 2011 Online organisations around the world are today testing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) — a new system of Internet addresses hoped to resolve the issue of the present system being at capacity. World IPv6 Day is checking everything works as planned. The current IPv4 standard was set up in the 1980s; […]
Read MoreSunday, June 29, 2008 While nearly all coverage of the 2008 Presidential election has focused on the Democratic and Republican candidates, the race for the White House also includes independents and third-party candidates. These prospects represent a variety of views that may not be acknowledged by the major party platforms. Wikinews has reached out to […]
Read MoreSaturday, October 9, 2010 The 10.10 version of Ubuntu (codename Maverick Merkaat), a free operative system is to be released in the next few days. French Wikinews contributor Savant-fou (Baptiste) has interviewed Fabrice (fabrice_sp on Ubuntu), an Ubuntu’s MOTU (Master Of The Universe), member of the development team of the operative system. Ubuntu is a […]
Read MoreFind Out More About: Art Gallery Tours Europe byAlma Abell How much time do you spend with your friends while your wife is at home? Do you enjoy playing poker at your best friend’s house once a week and playing golf with the guys on the weekend? If this is the case, clearly your free-time […]
Read MoreTuesday, January 19, 2010 A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to […]
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