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| Eating champ delivers top pizza performance in NY
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:12:33 GMT AP - Chowdown champ Joey Chestnut has done it again — this time proving he's a pizza powerhouse. |
| UK university holds artificial intelligence test
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:12:32 GMT AP - Computers argued, cracked jokes and parried trick questions Sunday, all part of an annual test of artificial intelligence carried out at the University of Reading. |
| Counting cards: NY collection includes 6,356 decks
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:43:28 GMT
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| Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers
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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:10:40 GMT
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| NY election mix-up: 'Osama' on the ballot
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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:21:51 GMT
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| Crackdown on tight trousers cancelled
(Reuters)
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:27:13 GMT Reuters - South Sudan's president shut down a police investigation Wednesday that saw scores of young women arrested for "disturbing the peace" by wearing tight trousers. |
| How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:26:36 GMT
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| For sale: Yourself, in Legos
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:28:01 GMT
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| Soccer player drowns in ritual swim
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:15:51 GMT
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| Naked swimmer evades police in Tokyo palace moat
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:15:23 GMT
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| German village remembers Prussia's Scottish general
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Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:21:11 GMT Reuters - A German village was on Saturday unveiling a monument to the Scottish-born Prussian Field Marshall James Keith, in a rare act of remembrance in a country that has spend decades distancing itself from its military past. |
| Virgin shark got pregnant in Virginia aquarium
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:17:35 GMT Reuters - Scientists using DNA testing have confirmed the second-known instance of "virgin birth" in a shark -- a female Atlantic blacktip shark named Tidbit that produced a baby without a male shark. |
| Nicaragua's Ortega says crisis is God punishing U.S.
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:10:31 GMT Reuters - Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega, a U.S. foe since the Cold War, said God was punishing the United States with the financial crisis for trying to impose its economic principles on poor countries. |
| Iceland for sale -- collect in person
(Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:36:44 GMT Reuters - Great scenery and wildlife but financial situation in need of repair -- collect in person. |
| Visit China's Forbidden City -- as a virtual eunuch
(Reuters)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:36:33 GMT Reuters - Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan. |
| Santas coming early to Indiana town to sign oath
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:41:02 GMT AP - The grandsons of Santa Claus are coming to town. |
| How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test
(Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:04:07 GMT Reuters - How long will an unchained bicycle last on a city street before someone steals it? |
| Woman, 72, moves after finding snakes in apartment
(AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:21:56 GMT AP - When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze. Days later, when an eight-inch snake crawled across her bed, she screamed. Finally, after stepping on a baby black rat snake, she moved. |
| Brazen Vietnam thief robs police station
(Reuters)
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:15:22 GMT Reuters - Vietnamese authorities are hunting for a brazen masked criminal who robbed a district police station, state media reported on Thursday. |
| Woman accused of serving pot-laced cake to guest
(AP)
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:21:59 GMT AP - West Hartford police said they charged a 51-year-old woman with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real estate agent. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 13, 2008 is:
koine • \koy-NAY\ • noun
1 : the Greek language commonly spoken and written in eastern Mediterranean countries in the Hellenistic and Roman periods *2 : a dialect or language of a region that has become the common or standard language of a larger area
Example sentence:
Koines inevitably developed in the early British colonies as different dialects converged.
Did you know?
Koine, which means "common" or "shared" in Greek, was the language spoken in the eastern Mediterranean countries from the 4th century B.C. until the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (mid-6th century A.D.). In linguistics, the word "koine" is applied to a language developed from contact between dialects of the same language over a large region. Basically, a koine adopts those grammatical and lexical elements from the dialects of the region that are easily recognized by most area speakers and dispenses with those that are not.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.