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NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
Strange Brew
By John Deering
CHUCK
SHEPARD
■ In March, the Tokyo High Court reversed the conviction of pinup model Serena Kozakura, who had been found guilty of kicking a hole in the door of her former boyfriend's apartment so she could break in and scream at him. Kozakura had appealed, claiming that the man had made the hole himself, and as evidence, explained that she could never have squeezed through it, anyway, because her breasts are too big. That argument apparently won the day, creating enough "reasonable doubt" to overturn the verdict. ■ Two German air force sergeants were suspended in December after being caught in a side venture selling sausages based on an old family recipe requiring human blood. Their first batches were made with their own, but as they began mass-producing, they had allegedly asked their colleagues because, according to instructions from one of the men's grandmothers, all blood must be "fresh." "Do not use too many breadcrumbs," she had written, "but if the blood starts to curdle, stir in a teaspoon of wine vinegar."
TODAY IN HISTORY German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller 1507 used the term “America” on a
Speed Bump
By Dave Coverly
world map to refer to the huge land mass in the Western Hemisphere, in honor of Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci. highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine. ground was broken for the Suez Canal. the United States formally declared war on Spain. New York Gov. Benjamin Barker Odell Jr. signed an automobile registration bill which imposed a 15 mph speed limit on highways. broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow was born in Polecat Creek, N.C. during World War I, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war. delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
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