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September 29, 2007
A 157-year-old whisky sold for more than $59,200 in Glasgow on Friday, making it possibly the most expensive Scotch ever auctioned in the world. The Bowmore single malt, which was bottled in 1850, was sold at McTear's auctioneers in Scotland for 29,400 pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder, the Agence France-Presse reported.
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September 22, 2007
A man who smuggled iguanas into the country in a prosthetic leg has been indicted. Police say Jereme James, 33, stole the iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji. James is facing a single count of smuggling. It comes with a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He had constructed a special compartment in his artificial leg to hold the iguanas.
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September 5, 2007
Topics death, indian, tears, single, cancer, education, led, church, help, children, money, family and woman
A 40-year-old Indian woman who claimed Mother Teresa miraculously cured her cancer, has accused Missionaries of Charity nuns of abandoning her in poverty stricken situation. The Missionaries of Charity, a congregation founded by Mother Teresa in eastern Indian, 310 miles from Kolkata in 1950, was busy preparing for the Albanian-born 10th death anniversary Wednesday.
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September 3, 2007
Topics skull, gallery, london, diamonds, shark, dating, single, cow, model, god, summer, art, love and diamond
British artist Damien Hirst sold his sculpture of a diamond-encrusted skull worth $100 million, an all time high price for a piece of work sold by a single living artist, the London gallery said Thursday. Hirst named the unique piece of art, "For the Love of God. " The masterpiece is a skull cast in platinum with 8,601 diamonds. When the original skull was subjected to carbon dating for authenticity, it was found that his model dated back to the 18th century.
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August 3, 2007
Topics world, underwater, orange, milk, pool, history, foot, running, beer, feet, head, man and single
New Yorker Ashrita Furman, the man who holds more world records than anyone in history, captured two new Guinness World Records by bouncing his way across the bottom of a pool on a pogo stick. Traveling 1,680 feet, Furman set the first Guinness World Record in an underwater pogo stick category. However after a short break, Furman broke his own record for underwater hula hoping with 2 minutes, 38 seconds.
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