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February 5, 2006
A man who sent a message in a bottle out to sea received a reply - berating him for littering. Not exactly the response he was looking for. "I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett said to the East Hampton Star.
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January 6, 2006
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff ReporterJune Matheson, 72, bought herbicide in the United States and put it on five trees in Stanley Park in 2004. Three trees ended up dying, said a court document.
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January 5, 2006
A Montgomery County judge rules that the act of mooning is not illegal in Maryland, clearing a man accused of indecent exposure after showing his buttocks to a neighbor during an argument. Judge John W. Debelius III says the defendant, 44-year-old Raymond Hugh McNealy, committed a "disgusting" and "demeaning" act when he allegedly exposed himself to his neighbor and her 8-year-old daughter June 7.
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December 28, 2005
A small town in France has just inherited a fortune. Jean Kerfers, born in Mael-Crahaix, a town of population 1580, passed away while living in Noumea in the Pacific Ocean archipelago of New Caledonia.
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November 1, 2005
A tooth believed to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte will be auctioned off in Britain later this month. The tooth will likely sell for roughly 8,000 pounds (US $14,000). The tooth was extracted in 1817, during Bonaparte's exile on the British island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo two years earlier.
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