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Artist paints nude hockey players
Maybe you have a hero. Perhaps that hero is a hockey player, like Bobby Orr.
Well, now you can see him in all his youthful splendor - and I mean all - on canvas, thanks to the imagination of an artist named Kurt Kauper. |
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Britain's pioneers of photography featured in New York exhibition
A new exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is meant to remind us of that magic of early photography.. "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860" is an exhibition of some of the world's oldest calotypes. Full story (originally aired on September 25, 2007)
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Austrian designer sells the most expensive lederhosen
While most of us wear trousers to cover whatever jewels we have, one German fellow has reached deep down into his extremely deep pockets to become the proud owner of the most expensive, most diamond-studded pair of lederhosen in the world. Full story (originally aired on August 24, 2007) |
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Winnipeg man survives a black widow bite
Last week, a Winnipeg man bought a bunch of grapes at his local store. But he got more than he bargained for, after it turned out that his fruit carried an eight-legged stowaway. It was a black widow -- and it took a bite out of more than the grapes. Full story (originally aired on July 18, 2007) |
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A feature interview with Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto, a two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan, has been in self-imposed exile for a decade, after being charged with corruption in 1996. But this year, she has vowed to return and to run in the general elections. Full story (originally aired on August 13, 2007) |
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Dutch carpenter builds a replica of Noah's Ark
We've got a vast ark-hive of stories about people who've tried to replicate the work of Noah. It's a task of Biblical proportions -- one most recently undertaken by one Johan Huibers.
Full story (originally aired on May 17, 2007) |
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Star Trek flat sold for an astronomical price
We know three things about Tony Alleyne, which may, or may not, be related: he is unemployed; he is divorced; and he has spent years converting his flat into a copy of the interior of the Star Trek Starship Voyager. Full story (originally aired on May 17, 2007)
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Sewage bubbles cover Alaskan town
It's April. And in April, one expects nasty things to fall from the sky. But what happens when one looks skyward and sees things that are both wet, mushy -- and the size of cars, covered with scum?
Full story (originally aired on April 13, 2007) |
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Chopin's
piano discovered in England
Chopin loved Pleyel pianos so much that he took them on
his tours. He brought his Pleyel on a trip to England
and Scotland in 1848 - a tour that turned out to be his
last. He died the following October, his piano still in
England, where it was lost. Full
story (originally aired on March 22, 2007) |
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Poetic
justice for Conrad Black
The trial of Lord Black of Crossharbour commenced this
week in Chicago. And while tales of the jury selection
revealed that residents of the Windy City seem poorly
acquainted with the windy Canadian, we know things are
different elsewhere. Full
story (originally aired on March 16, March 19 and
March 20) |
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Student wins a MIT award for inventing a rope ascender
Superman can leap over tall buildings in
a single bound. Spiderman can climb buildings with one
spray of his webs. Batman has his utility belt. Now, a
mild-mannered MIT student has turned those fantasy skills
into reality. Full story (originally aired on March 12, 2007) |
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As
It Happens Complaints choir makes a debut
They came, they sang, they complained. The first-ever
As It Happens Complaints choir had their debut last night.
Close to eighty choristers gathered in Glenn Gould theatre
here in Toronto to sing the song that was written from
your complaints. Full
story (originally aired on February 22, 2007) |
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An
ancient coin reveals the myth behind Cleopatra's beauty
For her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether
incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her.
Full story (originally
aired on February 14, 2007) |
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11ft
studio for 400 000 $ CAN
We all know the three most important things in real estate
are location, location, location. And there's a flat available
in London, England that certainly fits those three criteria.
It has a great location, and it certainly is a location.
But -- how to put it? -- there's not a whole lot of there
there.
Full story (originally aired on January 22, 2007) |
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Swedish
city strives to protect straw goat
Every Christmas, for the last forty years, it has been
a town tradition to raise up a giant straw goat in Gavle's
centre square. And it has been an equally-if-not-more
ardent tradition among resolute firebrands to raze said
goat to the ground Full
story (originally aired on December 4, 2006) |
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Alberta's
Nameless Head (but not for long!)
It is more than two-hundred-and-fifty metres wide, and
it clearly resembles a person in full headdress. Even
more fascinating, the head appears to be listening to
an iPod. Full
story (originally aired on October 26, 2006) |
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A
plane that never took off
Mark Clews had that same dream as The Wright Brothers.
And, while the artist may not know the first thing about
aeronautical engineering, it didn't stop him from building
a giant airplane made from balsa wood, like the ones you
used to fly as a kid. Only much, much bigger. Full
story (originally aired on October 19, 2006) |
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Former
Pogues member uses water and horn to create forrest music
For the past few years Jem Finer has shifted his focus
to conceptual art and music. And in his latest project,
he is playing no instruments at all. In fact, in his new
composition, Mother Nature is performing all the music.
Full story (originally
aired on September 22, 2006) |
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Anish
Kapoor's Sky Mirror goes on display in NY
New York's Rockefeller Center is home to an impressive
number of great works of art. But this fall, an unusual
new work by Mumbai-born artist Anish Kapoor is joining
the promenade of the greats. Full
story (originally aired on September 22, 2006) |
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Nova
Scotians celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast, me hearties! Today be "International Talk
Like a Pirate Day", and thar be celebratin' in Nova
Scotia. It's the final day of the first annual "East
Coast Pirate Days" festival in Salmon River Bridge.
Full story
(originally aired on September 19, 2006) |
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Pilot
makes emergency landing in downtown Montreal
Bill Berenholc though he was taking his young son on a
short flight to have a look at the family's smoked meat
shop from the air. But he found himself in a bit of a
pickle when the engine cut out over downtown Montreal.
Full story
(originally aired on September 11, 2006) |
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Tuk
Tuk team ends a 19-thousand-kilometre journey
It's one mode of transportation two British women are
probably happy to be finished with. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
and Jo Huxster have just finished a 19-thousand-kilometre
journey in the three-wheeled motorized vehicle known as
the Tuk Tuk.
Full
story (originally aired on September 5, 2006) |
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Frederick
Forsyth talks to AIH about his new book "The Afghan"
If you ever get the feeling when you read the headlines
about the latest terrorist threats that you could be reading
the plot of a good thriller-slash-adventure novel, then
you might be reading Frederick Forsyth's mind. Full
story (originally aired on September 4, 2006) |
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Juggler
breaks two unicycle records
Zach Warren, the graduate student at Harvard Divinity
School set two new records: the first, for "Fastest
Mile on a Unicycle", and the second for "Fastest
Mile on a Unicycle, While Juggling Three Objects".
Full
story (originally aired on August 31, 2006) |
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Illinois
man keeps Richard Nixon's sandwich for forty years
Once in a while, a great story comes along that doesn't
really relate to the day's news. In this case, it's the
story of Steve Jenne -- who, for more than forty years,
has held onto a sandwich partly eaten by Richard Nixon.
Full
story (originally aired on May 4, 2006) |
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Inventor
of Valet Parking retires
His vision was that rich people shouldn't have to park
their own cars. And he also dreamed of a world where rich
people wouldn't have to retrieve their own parked cars.
But now, having seen Valet Parking through to its completion,
Herb Citrin is putting his career in park -- and retiring.
Full story
(originally aired on May 22, 2006) |
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Stilton Cheese Makers Association is hoping
that their new fragrance, redolent of the legendary ripe
fromage, will have the pungent smell of success. Ful
story (originally aired on May 12, 2006)
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World
Vision helps people in Kenya's drought
Across East Africa, the latest dry spell has been particularly
devastating.
John Kisimir experienced first-hand the drought's awful
effects. For the past four years, he has worked part-time
for the charity World Vision. Full
story (originally aired on April 27, 2006) |
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Sculptor
reveals a typo in CIA puzzle
Some art is designed to be a cipher. Sculpture called
Kryptos in Langley, Virginia, is actually one big encrypted
mystery -- emblazoned with an extremely challenging code.
Amateur and professional cryptographers have been trying
to crack that code for more than a decade. And they'd
made a certain amount of progress -- until the creator
contacted one of them last week to admit to a bit of a
goof-up in his fancy encryption. Full
story (originally aired on April 20, '06) |
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Postmaster's
proofs go on the block
In 1860, the only people whose visages were considered
fit to adorn a stamp were Queen Victoria and her husband,
Prince Albert. But Charles Connell -- New Brunswick's
Postmaster General felt this conventional wisdom did not
apply to him. He had about half-a-million stamps made
up emblazoned with his own hirsute mug.
A few Connell stamps remained, as well as the proofs used
to make the stamps. And in a few weeks, those proofs will
be auctioned off by Sotheby's.
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story (originally aired on April 20, '06) |
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Sat
nav drivers land in deep water
Most of the time, Lesley Bennett is the parish councillor
for Luckington, England. But lately, she's been helping
to haul confused, disoriented drivers out of the water
on a regular basis. Full
story (originally aired on April 20, '06) |
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Scottish
cowboy fan opens a saloon
Alistair Baranowski is a cowboy from Drumblair, Scotland.
This month he opens his very own saloon, called "Tranquility".
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(originally aired on April 6, 2005) |
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Scientists
invent hi-tech glasses that switch focus
Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal glasses 222 years ago.
He also famously discovered electricity. It's unlikely
he would have ever thought that they would be used together.
But finally, for the millions of people who suffer from
presbyopia - the difficulty in shifting focus from far
to near objects, technological salvation may be at hand.
Full
story (originally aired on April 5, 2006) |
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Candy
makers repair a souvenir chocolate egg from Torino
When Vancouver's Mayor Sam Sullivan was in Torino, Italy,
he was the recipient of a very large chocolate egg. But
there was a bit of a mishap on the flight home, and while
the egg doubtless remains delicious, it became somewhat
less egg-shaped. Full
story (originally aired on March 21, 2006) |
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Giant
sea creature goes on display
It looks like something right out of "20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea." Imagine coming face to face with
an eight-metre-long giant squid that weighs about a thousand
kilograms. Full
story (originally aired on March 1, 2005) |
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1,400
old moccasin found in Canada
If you're looking for longlasting, quality footwear, you
might want to try this loafer on for size, but tread softly:
it's been more than a millennium since someone walked
a mile in this moccasin. Full
story (originally aired on February 17, 2006) |
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Canadian
photographer wins World Press Photo 2005
It was one shot in over 80,000. Canadian photographer
Finbarr O'Reilly has captured the top prize at the 49th
annual World Press Photo competition.Full story (originally
aired on February 10, 2006) |
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'Garden
of Eden' discovered in Papua New Guinea
An international group of scientists discovered dozens
of brand new species of plants and animals in a remote
Indonesian jungle. Full
story (originally aired on February 7, 2006) |
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British
woman builds Spitfire replica in her garage
Susan Lipscombe-Ridley's garage is not full of the usual
clutter of tools, lawn mowers and bicycles. There's simply
no room. The mother of three is using her garage to build
a full-sized, exact replica of a Spitfire. Full
story (originally aired on January 30, 2006) |
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Who
is the smallest fish in the world?
Last week on our show we heard a story about the world's
smallest fish, which measured a minuscule 7.9 millimetres
long. It seems that this tiny fish can't hold the tiniest
title for long. Full story (originally aired on January
30, 2006) |
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$160
000 slippers stolen from shoe museum
The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto is renowned for its collection
of one-of-kind shoes from around the world. But a theft
from the museum has officials on their heels.
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story (Originally aired on January 23, 2006) |
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Goldfish
falls through a chimney
In Nottinghamshire someone has taken on the santa's role
of flying through the air, wriggling down the chimney,
and landing on the living room hoping for a snack.
Full story (originally
aired on January 2, 2006) |
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Remembering Moe Koffman