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January 2, 2008
Topics world, travel, bet, underwear, france, leaves, war, face, bank, baby, people and woman
A hundred years after an Edwardian won a bet to travel the world in an iron mask while pushing a baby carriage, his great-grandson is saying he could have lied about the feat. In his 1908 wager with John Pierrepoint Morgan, the founder of JP Morgan Bank, and Lord Lonsdale for the equivalent of $2. 97 million today, Harry Bensley had to travel 30,000 miles across 19 countries while finding a wife.
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January 1, 2008
A fistfight at an American station at the South Pole which erupted over a woman resulted to the sacking of an Antarctic base worker on top of $90,000 medical bill. According to reports by the Daily Telegraph, the fracas, which happened at America's Amundsen-Scott station, may been caused by a heated discussion over a woman although authorities were not discounting the fact it might have also been caused by alcohol and cabin fever resulting from Antarctica's biting cold.
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January 1, 2008
A 25-year-old woman was arrested and is now facing a second-degree assault charge when she argued with his boyfriend over whether the dog should be allowed inside the bathroom while the couple was taking a shower. On Thursday night, the 26-year-old man wanted his dog to join them while taking a shower but the woman objected to the idea, a police report said.
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December 30, 2007
A 36-year-old West Virginia woman is facing charges of assault on a police officer after she after wiping her nose on the cop's shirt. According to the police officer, he responded to a call for police assistance for a domestic dispute in Dunbar, near Charleston, West Virginia.
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December 28, 2007
A woman arrested by police officials for domestic battery was also charged with police battery after wiping her nose on the back of an officer's shirt. In an incident that took place Friday, 36-year old Georgia Ann Newman was arrested for biting and slapping a man. While being led away, she allegedly wiped her nose on the officer's shirt while being led into the police station for booking procedures.
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