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Dalmore Oculus Whisky Fetches £23,000 at Auction
Offbeat  (tags: history, interesting, unusual )

Marty
- 2 days ago - heraldscotland.com
The Dalmore Oculus beat its estimated price of between £15,000 and £20,000 with a hammer price of £23,000. With the buyer's premium the lot cost £27,600.
Peruviuan Police: Gang Killed People for Their Fat
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, crime, odd )

Marty
- 2 days ago - my.att.net
A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics
Happy Holiday Handprint Wreath
Offbeat  (tags: craft, Happy Holiday Handprint Wreath, children, children's craft, christmas, craft )

Kelli
- 1 day ago - associatedcontent.com
This craft project is fun and easy to make and you and your child, children, your grandchildren or children you have in your life will make wonderful memories making these Happy Holiday Hand print Wreaths.
Winfrey to Announce Friday Show Will End in 2011
Offbeat  (tags: Oprah Winfrey, ending show, interesting, society )

Lone
- 2 days ago - washingtonpost.com
CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air. Chicago-based Harpo
Johnny Depp Wins His 2nd 'Sexiest Man Alive' Title From People Magazine; Matt Bomer Also Wins
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, Sexiest Men Alive, performance )

Lone
- 3 days ago - chicagotribune.com
Depp nudged aside Jackman to get the coveted endorsement from People magazine Wednesday. It's the 46-year-old actor's second time as "Sexiest Man Alive." He also won in 2003.
Shaming Undermines Justice
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, crime, signs, public, news )

Lone
- 4 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Across the country, judges and prosecutors and jailers are freelancing by imposing their own brands of retributive justice: forcing people to wear humiliating clothing, parade in public and even sleep in doghouses. The punishments are wildly
State Farm Ordered to Pay Texas Homeowners $310 Million for Overcharging
Offbeat  (tags: rip-offs, insurance policies, crime, interesting )

Lone
- 4 days ago - dallasnews.com
AUSTIN - State Farm Insurance must repay its customers $310 million for charging them too much for homeowners coverage dating back to 2003, the state insurance commissioner ruled Monday.
Using Effective Language in Campaigns for Animals
Offbeat  (tags: campaigns, marketing, helping animals, language, animals )

Simone
- 3 days ago - all-creatures.org
We recently launched a multi-million dollar marketing campaign to drive people to low-cost spay and neuter services for pets in Louisiana and Mississippi. We wanted to determine what messages would work, and we based our advertising campaign around those
The 'Abominable Mystery' Even Darwin Couldn't Solve
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, puzzling, evolution, orchids, Darwin )

Beatrice
- 3 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Orchids have been around for as long as dinosaurs, but the puzzle of their evolution is only now being fully understood. To the layman's eye, flowers might not seem especially inexplicable. But what puzzled Darwin was the way in which, after appearing
Picture Gallery, Aglow - 20090102, Space Pictures
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, space, galaxies, pictures, photographs )

Beatrice
- 4 days ago - space.about.com
Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of the Circinus Galaxy lies 13 million light-years away from our own. This galaxy, designated a type 2 Seyfert, is a class of mostly spiral galaxies that have compact
 
 
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