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Daily Quippages: 06.25.2009

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke to do rare solo perfromance at U.K. Latitude festival – via NME.COM. Wow! Bees Kill Three Dogs In Spring Valley, San Diego – video story – cbs8.com. These guys sound great. Wilco – “You Never Know” on Conan 6/24 via YouTube. Bird Migration: First ‘transmitter Godwit’ Back To West Africa In One Go – via [...]
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On This Day In History: Roswell Dummies

On This Day In History: June 24, 1997 on 12seconds.tv From The New York Times archives: For instance, one serviceman who crashed in a test balloon 10 miles northwest of Roswell suffered an injury that caused his head to swell and resemble the bulbous cranium of the classic science-fiction alien, the report says. This secretive 1959 mishap, [...]
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On This Day In History: Freaky Falling Frozen Frogs

On This Day In History: June 16, 1882 on 12seconds.tv The below citation comes from The Monthly Weather Review and was originally found at andthensome.com. For thirteen minutes, commencing at 2:45 p.m., the largest and most destructive hailstones fell that were ever seen at this place. The hailstones measured from one to seventeen inches in circumference, the [...]
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On This Day In History: Meteorite Mayhem

On This Day In History: June 12, 2004 on 12seconds.tv The Archer family got a shock when a meteorite hit their home in Elleslie [sic], Auckland, at 9.30 am on 12 June 2004. The meteorite punched a hole through the roof and bounced around the living room before coming to rest. The above sourced from The Encyclopedia [...]
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