Thursday, May 6, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, May 6, 2010)
(1)- THOSE OLDE TATOOS – Herein resides a website with many photos dating back years ago showing pioneers of modern tattoos. The site is historical and interesting.

(2)- NOT SO -- Scholars continue to claim that religious rivals such as Hinduism and Islam, Judaism and Christianity are, by some miracle of the imagination, both essentially the same and basically good. Some would argue the point.

(3)- THE PLACE -- Lovers of literature have been meeting in the cafe at the Hotel Castelar in the centre of the Argentine capital for decades.

(4)- A CHILD’S BOOK – Struwwelpeter, one of the most controversial, influential, and excoriated children’s books of all time. It was written and illustrated in 1844 by Heinrich Hoffmann, a Frankfurt doctor and translated into more than 100 languages.

(5)- SHAKES AND SEX -- If there is any one aspect of Shakespeare's work that singles him out from every other great writer, it is the astounding comprehensiveness of his treatment of love and sex.

(6)- DON’T BE RUDE -- A Roxbury man was slopped with a plate of pasta, punched, kicked, spit on and beaten with handbags by two women who told investigators they needed to “teach him a lesson” for not holding an elevator door for them.

(7)- UKRAINE PARLIMENTARY NEWS -- Opposition lawmakers hurled eggs and smoke bombs inside Ukraine's parliament Tuesday as the chamber approved an agreement allowing the Russian Navy to extend its stay in a Ukrainian port until 2042.

(8)- KILLER LAWNMOWERS -- According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, mowing your lawn with a typical gasoline-powered mower for one sweaty hour unleashes as many hydrocarbons as driving the average car almost 200 miles.

(9)- RAILROAD COW POWER -- Amtrak gave the term "cattle car" a whole new meaning with the first test of a biodiesel train that runs on beef byproducts. The train between Oklahoma City and Forth Worth now uses B20 biodiesel fuel.

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