US science fiction writer Ray Bradbury dies
June 7th, 2012 - 6:25 am ICT by IANS
Washington, June 7 (IANS) America's science fiction pioneer Ray Bradbury, whose works included "Fahrenheit 451" and " The Martian Chronicles," passed away Tuesday night. He was 91.A prolific author ... Read more...
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Does ‘coded message in Bible point to Qaeda’s nuclear weapon hideout’?
December 11th, 2010 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 11 (ANI): Author Michael Drosnin believes that there are secret, coded messages in the Bible that indicate that Al Qaeda has nuclear weapons in a secret hiding place.Drosnin took out ... Read more...
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Archaeologists Discover Whale Eating Whale Fossil In Peru
July 1st, 2010 - 8:01 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 1, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The archaeologists in Peru have discovered a huge whale eating whale fossil. Although the specimen has 14-inch teeth in its upper and lower ... Read more...
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Fearsome Moby Dick whale packed a mean bite 13 mln years ago
July 1st, 2010 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 1 (ANI): Researchers have discovered the fossilised skull of a mighty whale with a killer bite. According to the team, the beast could have shared the Miocene oceans with a ... Read more...
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Beluga Whale To Diver’s Rescue: Heroic Tale Of A Helpful Whale
July 30th, 2009 - 6:21 pm ICT by GD
Here's a twist in the conventional tale of environmentally vigilant humans lobbying to save the vanishing whale species, only this time round one of the creatures apparently decided to return the favor ... Read more...
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What Obama read as he went on to become US president
January 19th, 2009 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 19 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", The Bible, writings of Abraham Lincoln and Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" are among US president-elect Barack Obama's ... Read more...
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Fifty things you might not know about Obama
November 9th, 2008 - 4:55 pm ICT by ANI
img src="/newsportal/images/Barack Obama-83239.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" border="0" hspace="5" vspace="2" width="180" height="180" align="right"London, Nov.9 (ANI): Here, according to The Telegraph, are the fifty facts about US presidential elect Barack Obama that you might ... Read more...
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