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When it comes to dealing with Somalian pirates, no country is taking a stronger stand against piracy than South Korea.  While most companies who get attacked by pirates pay the ransom to get their crew and ships returned, South Korea turns to its military first and negotiates second.  South Korean special forces stormed the hijacked […]

When it comes to accomplishing things in California, you need to go big or go home.  That goes double for the United States Air Force, apparently.  The USAF launched the largest rocket ever launches from the West Coast when it fired off a massive Delta-4 Heavy rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base.  Of course, the […]

It’s one of the biggest series of arrests in New York state history and the result of thousands of hours of work by law enforcement officials, spearheaded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Over 100 mobsters from the Colombo and Gambino crime families were arrested in the largest arrest of mobsters in New York state […]

Dogs have been man’s closest companion throughout history.  Wherever there are humans, there are dogs right there alongside them.  However, the date at which man first domesticated his canine pals is up for debate.  However, we can get a good idea of when dogs were domesticated in the US thanks to a dog skeleton uncovered […]

When it comes to getting around walls, especially prison walls, there are two ways to get through them.  You can go around them, under them, or over them.  However, going around them involves passing security screenings and going under them requires engineering.  Going over the walls, however?  You just need wings.  Drug smugglers looking to […]

For more than 60 years, a secretive man in a black hat with a white scarf would visit the grave of Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of his birth.  The Poe Toaster, as the person was known, would leave roses and a half-finished bottle of cognac for the long-dead horror master Poe, then disappear […]

On August 4, 1987, Joy White took her daughter Carlina to the hospital in Harlem because her baby girl had a high fever.  Little did she know that would be the last time she saw her daughter as a child.  For all of her life, Carlina Renae White was raised by a woman who wasn’t […]

Those of you looking for information on Christopher Nolan’s next film in the Batman cycle, The Dark Knight Rises, need to look on further.  The casting news is filtering in and the news is good.  The next film in the Batman saga will feature two of Batman’s best-known villains, played by two of Hollywood’s hottest […]

Apple’s business is good.  Yesterday, the company announced a staggering $26.7 billion in revenue and $6 billion in profit.  That would mean that the last quarter of 2010 was the most profitable quarter in Apple’s vaunted history.  What fueled Apple’s meteoric profits in the face of Steve Jobs’ ill health, you might ask?  Why, smartphones […]

Much like when Amazon bought Woot and pumped resources into the retailer, Amazon’s recent investment of $175 million in online coupon store Living Social has prompted Amazon to kick a little extra business Living Social’s way in the form of a discount.  Living Social is selling a $20 Amazon gift card for $10. Click here […]

The long-rumored merger of Comcast and NBC has taken quite a long time to make it through the process, but it’s finally happened.  The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division have officially approved of the merger between NBC Universal and Comcast, creating one of the largest media empires in memory.  Of course, […]

An hour before the beginning of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in Spokane, Washington, sharp-eyed city employees spotted an abandoned backpack sitting along the parade route.  As it turns out, those employees stopped a potentially deadly terrorist situation.  Someone had left a functioning bomb in a Swiss Army backpack along the route of […]

One of the best-kept secrets of the art world is the real name of a British graffiti artist known as Banksy.  Far from a simple tagger, Banksy is a pop culture phenomenon because he or she can do with spray cans what most people can’t do with a full paint set and all the technical […]

It’s amazing how far the mighty have fallen.  A few years ago, In 2000, Joe Lieberman was the Democratic Party’s nominee for the position of Vice President of the United States alongside Al Gore.  In 2006, he resigned from the Democratic Party after losing his party’s nomination for Senate to a nominee backed by the […]