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13 Mar. 2018
Slovenia claims world’s first blockchain monument
KRANJ, Slovenia (Reuters) – The first monument to the blockchain technology that underpins crypto-currencies took center stage on Tuesday on a roundabout in Slovenia, authorities in the country’s fourth largest city said.
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11 Mar. 2018
Putin says grandfather cooked for Stalin and Lenin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin’s paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday.
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15 Mar. 2018
‘The cat of the match’ gets Besiktas in trouble with UEFA
(Reuters) – Turkish soccer club Besiktas ended up in trouble with European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, on Thursday, a day after a cat sneaked on to the pitch during their Champions League match against Bayern Munich.
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18 Apr. 2018
Marx birthplace cashes in on 0 euro notes for anniversary
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German city of Trier is struggling to keep up with demand for 0-euro notes, bearing the face of its most famous son and communism’s creator Karl Marx, and sold for 3 euros each as part of celebrations for his 200th birthday.
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9 Apr. 2018
UK Wife Carrying champ beats the mud to win place in world final
DORKING, England (Reuters) – With a sliding dive worthy of a rugby try, Chris Hepworth flung himself and his partner over the finishing line to become UK Wife Carrying champion, and now has his eye on the world title.
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11 Apr. 2018
Singing road strikes wrong chord with Dutch villagers
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Take the highway past the Dutch village of Jelsum and the road will play you a tune.
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18 Apr. 2018
‘No to sex on roundabouts’, Norway tells high school graduates
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s high school graduates should refrain from running naked across bridges and having sex on roundabouts lest they give drivers “too much of a surprise”, the national transport regulator said on Wednesday.
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27 Mar. 2018
Unheard for 300 years, Italian mass rediscovered
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Lost for about 300 years, a mass by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is proving popular with audiences across Europe after being rediscovered by researchers.
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24 Feb. 2018
English pub scraps snail race as cold makes competitors sluggish
LONDON (Reuters) – An English pub has canceled a charity snail race scheduled to take place on Saturday after unseasonably icy weather made potential competitors too slow to compete.
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9 Apr. 2018
Temasek stake values ‘Salt Bae’ Turkish restaurant owner at $1.2 billion
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Singapore’s Temasek and Britain’s Metric Capital have bought into Nusr-Et steakhouse owner D.ream in a deal valuing the Turkish firm at $1.2 billion.
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30 Mar. 2018
No more pain for Philippine devotee nailed to cross for 32nd time
CUTUD, Philippines (Reuters) – A Philippine man who has been nailed to a cross every Easter for the past 32 years in a Good Friday re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion says he no longer feels any pain from his wounds.
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10 Apr. 2018
Japanese man, 112, recognized as world’s oldest male
ASHORO, Japan (Reuters) – A 112-year-old Japanese man born months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity was recognized on Tuesday as the world’s oldest man.
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