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• The Pulitzer Prize for Literature and Tax Notes

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 681
  Washington Post, The Known World of Edward P. Jones, by Neely Tucker: Edward Paul Jones is sitting at a table in Guapos restaurant in Tenleytown early on a midsummer evening, looking down into a glass of red wine. Nobody in the place recognizes him, although hes arguably the greatest fiction...
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• Zsa Zsa Gabor Blames Bernie Madoff for $118,321 Tax Bill

  
  TaxProf Blog — Authority: 681
  Associated Press, Zsa Zsa Gabor Has $118,321 Tax Bill, Blames Madoff: Zsa Zsa Gabors lawyer blames convicted swindler Bernard Madoff for a hefty tax bill owed by his client. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, the IRS filed a lien of more than $118,000 for the...
  6 hours ago

• Alien Lore No. 162 - UFO sighting in California, September, 2009

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 431
  As is often the case, Jeff Clinton sent along this excellent and meticulously enhanced video of a recent alleged UFO sighting in California. They didnt make the YouTube video "embeddable," so youll have to jump here to view it . ---o0o---
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• Belgian Red Star Line Museum looking for emigrant photographs, memorabilia & stories

  
  Olive Tree Genealogy Blog — Authority: 421
  Between 1873 and 1934 the legendary shipping company Red Star Line transported more than two million passengers to . Poor European emigrants in search of the American Dream, but also affluent passengers travelling for business or pleasure left for . They departed from the city of Antwerp (Belgium, ), where the port ...
  19 hours ago

• Sailing the Caribbean on $55 per day

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  The New York Times’ Frugal Traveler has an article describing sailing as crew in the Grenadines on a  75 foot schooner, the S.V. Illusion , for a very reasonable sum. Sailing the Caribbean, the Frugal Way Our berths aboard the Illusion cost us each $55 a day, a sum that covered breakfast, dinner, basic ...
  21 hours ago

• Patch 3.3 PTR: WoW.coms stream of the Frozen Halls

  
  WoW.com — Authority: 677
  We ran our livestream of the Halls of Reflection on the PTR yesterday, and other than one little hitch (I figured Id save us all the trouble of raiding the Lich King and just jump in and take him down myself, with disastrous consequences), it went pretty well. Turns out you need to run through the main quest to ...
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• More tragedies just over horizon

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  The  recent sinking of the Tongan ferry  Ashika where over seventy are believed to have lost their lives has focussed attention on the aging, often poorly maintained and too often unseaworthy ferries that are essential to life in the Pacific island archipelagos. More tragedies just over horizon When ...
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• Al Maharah, Souk al Waqif Hotel

  
  Here There and Everywhere — Authority: 431
  I got it half right. I was good taking photos until our main courses arrived, but when we got to Al Maharah, there were only a few groups. I took all the photos before there were a lot of people there. But the truth is, when our main courses – the seafood skewers – arrived, they were so good, I forgot to ...
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• Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  An intriguing news item from the Telegraph.co.uk by way of the Bitter End blog – This sounds like a bad horror movie,  but apparently a 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by gigantic jellyfish off eastern Japan. Japanese fishing trawler sunk by giant jellyfish The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized ...
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• APB video podcast introduces the criminals of San Paro

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 456
  All Points Bulletin is definitely on the radar for a number of fans of urban crime games seeking a deeper multiplayer environment. While many of us would enjoy a perpetual cascade of felonies (or arrests), Realtime Worlds wants players to have a sense of San Paro as a fleshed out urban setting where they can ...
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• APB video podcast introduces the criminals of San Paro

  
  Massively — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Podcasts , Video , Lore , New titles , All Points Bulletin , Crime All Points Bulletin is definitely on the radar for a number of fans of urban crime games seeking a deeper multiplayer environment. While many of us would enjoy a perpetual cascade of felonies (or arrests), Realtime Worlds ...
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• Japanese ferry Ariake has a bad Friday the 13th

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  The Japanese ferry Ariake grounded in heavy weather off Kumano in the Mie Prefecture of Japan yesterday.  Fortunately the seven passengers and 21 crew members were rescued with only minor injuries reported .   The ship is 166.9 meters long and was reported to have been loaded with 1186 tons of cargo containers ...
  2 days ago

• PTR 3.3: Deathbringer Raid Encounter [Video]

  
  Project Lore: World of Warcraft Videos and Guides Blog — Authority: 139
  Deathbringer is one of the few remaining fights not previously tested on the PTR, and perhaps for good reason! The lore surrounding this fight connects right back to one of Wrath of the Lich King ’s most iconic events. If you’ve experienced it yourself, then you probably already know which one I’m referring to. ...
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• Galveston’s the Elissa: The Tall Ship of Texas

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 521
  Most of the over 4,000 books in   Arcadia Publishing ’s “Images of America” series focus on local histories with extensive photographs of what a town, city or region looked like way back when.  (Not long after my family moved into our 1880s brownstone, Arcadia came out with a book titled “Jersey City”, and ...
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• LEGO BIONICLE Visorak Boggarak

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 156
  LEGO BIONICLE Visorak Boggarak In recent Bionicle lore, the Visorak are spider-like creatures who have taken over the city of Metru Nui and encased it in a shroud of webs. When the Toa Metru reappear in the city, the Visorak attack and their poisonous venom strips the Toa of their [...]
  2 days ago

• Icecrown: Halls of Reflection Patch 3.3 PTR

  
  Spooncraft — Authority: 134
  Teza over at WoWraid posted up a really good video of the typical playthrough on the last wing of the new 5-man Dungeons coming in WoW Patch 3.3. This video contains heavy spoilers with major lore characters so don’t go bitching to me for ruining your story.With Jaina and Sylvanas leading the way, adventurers who ...
  2 days ago

• The Carrefour Majlis

  
  Here There and Everywhere — Authority: 431
  Hubby and I were at a mall which is one of the Qatar see-and-be-seen places tonight, not to see nor to be seen, but looking for a special end table. As it turns out, we can probably get it, but not until January. No problem. AdventureMan wanted to pick up some teas for his office and I needed skim milk so we headed ...
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• Thank You for Paraskevidekatriaphobics and Superstitions

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 423
  Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the irrational fear of Friday the 13th. It has nothing to do with that terrifying movie. Though, I do have an irrational dislike for horror movies—I just don’t have a word for it. It is said that our associative superstition about Friday the 13th started back in the 1300’s in ...
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• Goddess

  
  Misery - a shadow priest blog — Authority: 111
  Queen Lanathel . Shes a blood elf. And a queen. And a vampire. Sorry, vampyr . Have you seen her abilities? Vampiric bite, essence of the vampyr queen, shroud of sorrow. You might as well add "immune to shadow priests", were all going to be too busy gasping in awe and reverence. Do you think its possible to defect ...
  3 days ago

• Lucinella — Lore Segal

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 419
  The story of a group of poets and critics in the late 60s/early 70s NYC should not be so fun or rewarding. From its first page, Lore Segal’s novella Lucinella invents itself as a scathing satire of writers and would-be writers. Segal’s book paradoxically reveres its subject matter, a back-biting and insular ...
  3 days ago

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