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XNote Kapetan
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: Bizarre world - amazing stories & photos |
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The biggest hole in the world - amazing photos
The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the
town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter. |
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XNote Kapetan
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3524 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Slashdot: This Rare Friday the 13th
"Juha-Matti Laurio writes to point out a Washington Times story about
how special this particular Friday the 13th is. The digits in the numerical
notation for the date add up to 13 — whether you write it in the US or the
European form. From the article:
"The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a
physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to
find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520."
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"Vaguely more interesting and almost veering ON topic for slashdot, in binary notation todays date would be
1010 1101 11111010110
...which just so happens to have thirteen "1"s in it." |
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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What Is Telstar Logistics?
"The short answer is that it's a scam for parking illegally in loading zones.
The nerdy answer is that it's an ongoing experiment in corporate
phenomenology, urban camouflage, and identity development." |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3524 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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Wired: Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up
Directors of the game device company went on living large long
after their handheld flopped. Then a high-speed Ferrari crash blew
their world to bits.
"In just a few years, it seems, Eriksson went from languishing in a European
jail cell to making millions as a tech executive to, even more improbably,
becoming deputy commissioner of antiterrorism for an obscure Southern
California transit police force. Before -Eriksson lost control of his Ferrari in
Malibu, no one in the US really cared about his strange story. But after the
supercar came apart, Eriksson would find every inch of his life under scrutiny
by the LA County Sheriff's Department, federal law-enforcement officers,
and the media. That's when Eriksson and a tangle of cohorts would find out
just how large a little bump could loom." |
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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3137 Location: Europe
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Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Glasswing Butterfly
"Glasswing Butterfly(Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its
wings are transparent. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like
glass. They are found in the range which extends throughout Central
America into Mexico. 10 more pics after the jump." |
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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A prank or a real story: Denmark SpeedBandits
"This movie was made by the Danish Road Safety Council and aims to
draw attention to speed signs and speed limits in Denmark. Despite a
decrease in speed violations, 7 out of 10 Danes still exceed the speed
limit on a regular basis."
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XNote Kapetan
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XNote Kapetan
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Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Short stroll in a Chinese national park
"Are we all ready for a little exercise? It's just a short hike, but maybe
enough to get our blood circulating. Let's go!" |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3524 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Slashdot: A Brief History of 'sex.com'
"Violet Blue's current 'Open Source Sex' column in SFGate covers the amusingly
sordid history of sex.com. More graft and corruption than hanky-panky, the
article details some of the exploits surrounding the much-desired URL,
including an attempted assassination, drug smuggling, money laundering,
and a bid to buy out Ceasar's Palace. From the article: 'It's estimated that
Cohen made over $100 million off the URL in the years he had it, even
making a 1999 bid to buy Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and was only
forced to give it back to Kremen when a San Jose court awarded the URL
(and $65 million in damages) to Kremen in 2001. It had been a five-year
struggle for Kremen, both in battling his speed addiction and in trying to
raise funds for his own litigation. Even though his dot-com boom resume
boasted typical startup-style impressive credentials, Kremen was only able
to afford the court bills when bitter Sex.com porn industry rivals helped
fund the case." |
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XNote Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: |
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What People say in Court
"Q: The youngest son, the twenty-year old, how old is he?
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Q: Were you present when your picture was taken?
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Q: Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?
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Q: Did he kill you?
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Q: How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
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Q: You were there until the time you left, is that true?" |
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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3137 Location: Europe
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Strange Towers of the Third Reich
"Their cone shape caused bombs to slide down the walls and detonate
only at a heavily fortified base. Cheaper to build above ground than to dig
bunkers, they were quite effective, as it was possible to cram as many as
500 people inside." |
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delovski
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Michael Larson, Game Show Legend
"Having watched Press Your Luck since it premiered, Michael Larson, then
an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio, came to the conclusion
that the swift, seemingly random flashing lights that bounced around the
Press Your Luck board were hardly random at all.
By taping the show religiously and pausing the tapes, Larson discovered that
there were just six light patterns on the board. With this bit of knowledge,
he practiced at home while watching the show and realized that he could
stop the board wherever and whenever he wanted, if he just had patience." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:21 am Post subject: |
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washingtoncitypaper.com - Wanted: Gullible Lawyers
"This is the story in which you learn how a graduate of Columbia Law School
—that’s me—and almost 80 other people, who really should have known better,
got suckered into giving away all our personal details as well as up to two months
of our lives for “jobs” that never actually existed. And then you learn why it all
happened the way it did." |
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delovski
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Reddit: Skills only found in China (PICS)
"It's the sort of improvisation that Americans were famous for until about
1965, when we started having specialized objects widely distirbuted for
every conceivable purpose" |
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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The “Vinegar Boy” Saga, as told by Aaron
"I had sold a 1L bottle of malt vinegar to a kid (about fifteen years old) that
morning and he had taken the bottle home and drunk half of it - yes that's right,
he had drunk vinegar. Of course, he got sick as a dog and "redecorated" the
walls and floor of several rooms.
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At this point the cops and I exchange looks and one said, "Damn Aaron, and
we all thought you had finally snapped." Ha ha. The woman demanded that I
be arrested, but the police weren't buying it now that they knew the situation." |
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Slashdot - My review of OSX, by kuactet (1017816)
"Despite having no friends, no life, no education no job, and no prospects,
despite the war in Iraq, a plunging dollar, the looming energy crisis, global
warming, and the sheer horror of being alive in this day and age, this mor-
ning, I woke up happy, for today would be my most exciting review: OSX
10.5 was being released." |
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delovski
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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3137 Location: Europe
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors
"Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for
the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It
was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar,
which was far more effective." |
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delovski
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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reddit - Blue Ice [Pics]
"Annette and Jon were touring in Torres Del Paine National Park in Chile,
Southern Patagonia when they found an amazing site." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:45 am Post subject: |
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reddit - Video
This woman found this lion hurt and about to die. She took him home and
took care of him. When the lion was better she called the local zoo. This was
the reaction she got when the lion saw her. |
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delovski
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delovski
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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Chris Ainsworth - The Flying iPad
"Then it dawned on me. My iPad had just flown off the back of my car at 70
MPH and crash-landed on the Interstate. All I did was whisper, “No, no, no,”
which I think made Calvin uncomfortable because daddy stopped answering
all his questions." |
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Ike Kapetan
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XNote Kapetan
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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tech.mit.edu - The dark side of an MIT brain
"Here’s how it works: “sugar babies,” typically young, college-age women,
join the site for free, where they can enter a description of the type of “ar-
rangement” they are looking for — often with a price tag. “Sugar daddies,”
who are typically much older men, also enter descriptions of what they are
looking for, usually including how much they are willing to pay for it. In an
April 2009 article, the New York Times cites the example of a “49-year-old
investor from upstate New York willing to pay $5,000 a month for a ‘day-
time playmate’ for ‘intense connection without commitment.’” |
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Ike Kapetan
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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wired - How investigators unravelled Europe's biggest-ever fake-medicine scam
"Plavix and Casodex are prescription drugs used to treat heart disease and
prostate cancer, respectively. Plavix is licensed by drugs giant Bristol-Myers
Squibb and Casodex by AstraZeneca. Plavix retails for around £142 a pack
of 30 tablets and Casodex for anything up to £240. But Xu wasn't sourcing
his drugs from authorised wholesalers -- his iteration was being manufactu-
red illegally in China." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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adst.org - Kathleen Turner - “I’m still a dip kid”
"In this interview, she discusses her father’s internment in China by the
Japanese, her life in Cuba during the revolution (and how she prayed to
Castro and got candy), her grim memories of charity work in Venezuela,
and life in London, where she got the acting bug and protested the Viet-
nam War, all to her father’s chagrin." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:46 am Post subject: |
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r - Location vs. Picture
"It's almost like there is beauty everywhere if you look for it...
And use the proper camera settings, angles and, lens filters." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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r - Almost 102 year old woman - AMA
"Born in 1915 in New Jersey, my family's first car was a model T. I've seen
7 wars, lived through the roaring twenties, remember when a penny got
you a bag of candy. When I was 28 I met a handsome Italian who worked
with some interesting fellows to say the least. We got married and his job
brought us to Las Vegas when I was 35 in the 1950's. He ran some casinos
for those interesting fellows and I got a job at the Flamingo hotel. I've seen
and met some very interesting and famous people in my time working at
the casino. I lost frank in 1981, and spent my time in my tiny retirement
community with my two best friends. I outlived both of them. I still live their
today, by myself with just some help. My best friends family adopted me as
frank and I never had children. It's my adopted gran daughter that is helping
me answer all your questions!" |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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r - A man disappeared in Brazil and left behind 14 books full of
encrypted hand-written text, a $2500 worth statue and a lot more
"After keeping his room locked for a month, Bruno Borges disappears and
leaves it full of encrypted language and symbols all over the walls, along with
14 handwritten books (encrypted as well) and a statue of Giordano Bruno,
italian Dominican philosopher worth approximately $2500 (R$7.000). The
books were impecable in symmetry and aligning. His family didn't know about
the statue, he was alone when it was delivered. It stands on a symbol that
resembles Fullmetal Alchemist transmutation circle." |
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delovski
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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cbs - At 97, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive
"Lesley Stahl: Ben? I'm sitting here listening to you. And you're very wise. And
you're full of energy and passion. And I can't believe you're 97 years old.
Benjamin Ferencz: Well, I'm still a young man.
Lesley Stahl: Clearly, clearly.
Benjamin Ferencz: And I'm still in there fighting. And you know what keeps
me going? I know I'm right." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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y - Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
"Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have
made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served
up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2021 9:04 am Post subject: |
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r - What is the most unforgettable Reddit post that everyone needs to read?
"The lazy military officer who turned the ship so he could eat a bagel without
the sun in his eyes.
Carbon Monoxide Story
Someone made a post about how they purposely like to block speeding cars
and drive slow to make them mad, and a tree aborist gave probably one of the
best responses I've ever read and has stuck with me.
There was this story about a girl that was kidnapped as a child.
The insurance adjuster who gives really really good tips about filing for claims.
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Ike Kapetan
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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... some kind of a source who has already leaked some information in the past to the Grozev's friend
"Now it remains to be seen that some fucking adviser will convince the top to
start a conflict with Europe demanding to reduce some sanctions. Or reduce, or
war. What if they refuse? Now I do not rule out that then we will be drawn into
a real international conflict, like Hitler in 1939. And then our Z will be compared
to us with a swastika.
Is there a possibility of a local nuclear strike? Yes. Not for military purposes (it
will not give anything - this is a defense breakthrough weapon), but with the
aim of intimidating others." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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bellingcat.com - Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy: How a GRU Agent Charmed Her Way Into NATO Circles in Italy
"The investigation had blown the lid on a glaring hole in the GRU's tradecraft:
for nearly a decade, Russia's military intelligence agency had furnished their
spies with consecutively numbered passports, allowing investigative journalists
who had acquired data commonly leaked onto Russia's black market to uncover
other spies by simply tracing such batches of numbers.
Averyanov himself had reached out to many of his subordinates who had
been travelling on such passports - including the two spies involved with
the failed Montenegro coup in 2016." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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wiki - Mike Horn
"Michael Horn (born 16 July 1966) is a South African-born Swiss professional
explorer and adventurer. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he currently
resides in Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland."
Je vous parle du jour oo j'ai grimpe un iceberg...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCSknYj728 |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2023 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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medium.com - The Escort and the Oligarch: the Nastya Rybka Saga
"This article is about the strange saga of Nastya Rybka, a Belorussian escort
associated with Oleg Deripaska who claimed to possess information related to
Paul Manafort and the 2016 American election. It is the seventh installment in
the series 'Paul Manafort, the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict, and the 2016 Trump
Campaign'." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2023 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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The Great Book of Farmer Turned Globetrotter Joseph Mikulec
"Mikulec traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, to every Continent except
Antarctica, met tens of thousands who inscribed their thoughts and words to
the world traveler, from world leaders to local merchants, from Theodore
Roosevelt to the insurance salesman in Topeka to monarchs and leaders
everywhere.
Josef Mikulec was born in a small town in northern Croatia on January 15,
1878. His father was a farmer and he worked that farm. Then his father, who
had accrued debt, sent him to work off that debt on yet another farm. But
before his 20th birthday, his burgeoning desire to see the world took his life
in another direction. His father had refused his request to travel abroad, but
he convinced his mother to let him. 'I always wanted to see the world,' he
would explain later. 'This is the path I took to do that.' He traveled to Italy,
then Malta, where he got a job." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Y! - Colorado Woman Unwittingly Moves in With Her Rapist Years After Violent Attack
"After being violently raped, strangled, and beaten, she was left for dead in a
Fort Collins park in August 2013 by an unknown attacker.
Then, two years after the attack, in an attempt to reclaim her life, she moved
in with a group of friends, who offered her a safe place to land as she healed.
But she never could have imagined her rapist was among her new roommates." |
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Ike Kapetan
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YT - Ratni suparnici 14 godina kasnije
"Oktobar 1992, rat u BiH. Susrecu se dva vojnika. Bosnjak Daut je brzi i ubija
Srbina Daneta. 14 godina kasnije Daut u kaficu prepoznaje Daneta: Ja sam te
ubio!, kaze mu. Kako si me ubio, kada vidis da sam ziv?" |
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Ike Kapetan
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Y! - Former Russian sex spy says she was trained as a master manipulator
"At age 18, Roza said, she was chosen out of 350 students to participate in a
top-secret program developed by former KGB psychologists and high-ranking
officers. There, Roza said, she studied how to use seduction and persuasion to
get information from enemy targets." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Y! - The KGB solved my argument with my wife: When spies get too close to their targets
"The British diplomat stationed in Moscow could tell something was up. Waking
in her apartment a little worse for wear one morning, she found a badly burnt
saucepan left on her stove. Well aware she was being surveilled by local
intelligence agents, she scribbled a note to admonish them. - You went a bit
too far here... - she wrote, before heading out for the day. When she returned,
a reply had been left. - You left it on, - the new note read, - we turned it off."
"One day, he said, he and his wife were arguing about where they'd agreed
to take their children for a picnic the forthcoming weekend. Fed up of the
back and forth, Lord Oxford pettily addressed the ceiling: - Well, where did
we agree? - To his amazement, a note shortly appeared under the door
confirming they'd agreed on Kuskovo." |
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Ike Kapetan
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Y! - This photo on the National Mall captivated the country decades ago. The real story behind it remained a mystery -- until now.
"The extravagant scene on July 19, 1974, drew in a Washington Post
photographer, who captured the moment in an image that would ricochet
around the country in newspaper reprints.
But the people and circumstances at the center of that famous picture
remained a mystery to those who admired it, bought it, hung it on their
office walls. They didn't know who those young people were or why they
had gathered for such an ornate affair near the Reflecting Pool. They didn't
know that the specter of death had loomed over the rousing celebration or
that the people at its center would go on to have a hand in many pivotal
facets of American life -- the civil rights movement, gender equity in
schools, advocacy for blind and disabled people." |
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