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October 13, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI will canonize a woman who was a nun in Indiana this Sunday. The Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin, who was once banished from her congregation, will be the first U. S. saint the Roman Catholic Church has canonized in six years. The pope will also be canonizing a Mexican bishop and two Italians who founded religious orders.
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October 6, 2006
A 200-year-old pair of false teeth that belonged to the Archbishop of Narbonne went on display at the Museum of London Friday. Archaeologists found the teeth in the coffin of the archbishop, Arthur Richard Dillon, while digging at the St. Pancras graveyard, where the Channel Tunnel's new rail terminus will be built. The dentures, which are made of porcelain and contain gold springs, were still sitting in Dillon's mouth. It is thought he may have purchased them from Nicholas De Chemant, a prominent Parisian dentist.
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October 2, 2006
The Netherlands may be one of the top "impolite" European nations, and the Dutch people are honest in admitting so. According to a survey in Dutch daily De Telegraaf, the Dutch have voted themselves Europe's third most loutish, bad-mannered nation putting them behind the Russians and French. "As we are too many people living in just a little country our tolerance of one another is continuously declining," wrote one of the survey respondents.
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September 13, 2006
Topics game, children, starbucks, mcdonalds, coffee, advertising, games, pop, french, running, health, phone, food, reuters, money and car
The new edition of the game Monopoly will feature major companies such as McDonald's, Starbucks and Motorola. Instead of an old shoe, McDonald's French Fries will be a player piece along with a Starbucks coffee cup, a Toyota Prius car, a Motorola RAZR phone and a New Balance running shoe. The "Here and Now" U. S. edition of the board game will feature Times Square instead of Boardwalk, among other changes.
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September 13, 2006
Topics art, black, paint, helicopter, oil, france, cover, french, photos, war, bush, cars, internet, television and man
A French man was fined $253,920 for defacing his 18th century home with junk and paint for the sake of art. Thierry Ehrmann has spent about $3. 2 million to turn his home in a suburb of Lyon, France into a work of art called "The Abode of Chaos. " The businessman, who made his fortune from Internet art data, has been working on the project since 1999.
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