May 16, 2006
Topics water, swimming, ice, mountains, africa, telephone, hands, bear, love, island, lost, body, reuters and world
"Ice Bear" Lewis Gordon Pugh has broken his own world record for the longest ice water swim on Friday. Lewis swam for 1. 2 kilometres inside the Norwegian mountains where the water temperature in the lake, about 300km northeast of Bergen, was just above zero degrees.
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May 8, 2006
An Indian couple exchange wedding vows over the telephone after the groom could not make it to the ceremony due to Hindu-Muslim clashes in the bride's city. The long-distance marriage was solemnized on Friday as a curfew and army patrols in the western Indian city of Vadodara prevented 21-year-old Sufiyan Agarbatiwala from reaching the bride's house there.
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March 23, 2006
Topics nude, bored, telephone, post, naked, television, phone, office, men, women, people and chat
According to a new survey, when you call someone in Britain chances are they are chatting away in the nude. The survey finds one in three Brits regularly make telephone calls in the nude. The study says men are less reserved with nearly 40 percent admitting to chit chatting naked, while only 27 percent of women admitted to the habit.
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March 1, 2006
According to a recent poll, most Americans know more about Homer and the Simpson clan than they do about the US Constitution's First Amendment. In a survey, only one in four people could name one of the five amendments, whereas more than half could name at least two family members of the Simpsons.
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January 15, 2006
A new poll shows Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas is declining in popularity among voters in his home state. In fact, barely one of every five of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's constituents would vote for him if the election were held now, according to a poll released on Saturday. According to the Houston Chronicle
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