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Written by: David Mikkelson
March 24, 2003
Did Secretary of State Colin Powell make an eloquent point about America's desire for 'empire bu ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 3, 2003
Photographs show a suspect who was decapitated by a wrought-iron fence while fleeing from police.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 19, 2003
Who said 'going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 11, 2003
In the 1993 declaration given by 13-year-old "J. Chandler" in a lawsuit against Michael Jackson, ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Feb. 10, 2003
Cochineal and its close cousin carmine (also known as carminic acid) are derived from the crushe ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 9, 2003
People have come up with all sorts of inventive ways of concealing themselves in order to slip a ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Feb. 4, 2003
Child falls on knife in dishwasher and dies?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 20, 2003
A plaque honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. mistakenly thanked his assassin, James Earl Ray, inste ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 31, 2002
Sometimes the simplest and most correct answers are the least satisfying.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 30, 2002
Does a loon appear on Canada's $1 coin because the original dies were lost in transit?
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Dec. 6, 2002
Cups and burger wrappers at In-N-Out Burger fast food chain are inscribed with unobtrusive Bible ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 17, 2002
"In his zeal to have this sharply defined nose, he's had so many things done, the tissue is no l ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 11, 2002
Did a "Newlywed Game" contestant say the weirdest place she'd ever "made whoopee" was "up the butt"?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 3, 2002
Nazi Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering was one of the highest-ranking Nazis who survived to be ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2002
William Phelps Eno was the man who penned some of the first traffic laws.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 29, 2002
The stories about what has happened to hockey's Stanley Cup are almost urban legends unto themse ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 4, 2002
Sometimes the most innocuous of foodstuffs contain constituents whose origins are less than appe ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Aug. 19, 2002
Were graham crackers named for a man who believed unhealthy diet led to sexual excess?
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 10, 2002
Photographs purportedly show thieving birds stealing quarters from a car wash.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 8, 2002
A large percentage of U.S. currency bears traces of cocaine, but not necessarily because it all ...
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