Day: October 20, 2011

News

French Hostage Taker Calls French News Blog First.

Pierre Haski of French news blog Rue 89 was called by Christian Denisot, an unemployed 45 year old man, who had taken two people hostage at gun point inside a government employment center. Although Pierre initially thought it all a bad joke, these suspicions were quickly allayed upon his receiving an email from the address […]

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Two Pizzas Too Many.

After putting his car into a ditch, Donn Adams, a recovering heroin addict, told police he only had two pizzas to drink at lunch along with some Suboxone used to treat his opiate addiction. According to the Huffington Post, it was at this moment that officers became suspicious, Indeed, since people do normally drink their […]

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Semantics.

“The study of meaning in natural language. ‘Meaning’ is an elusive concept which modern linguists tackle by dispersing into other fundamental ideas such as Implicature, Meaning-NN, Sense and Reference, Value. See Theories of Meaning, Lexical Semantics, Structural Semantics, Truth Conditional.” J. Lyons, SemanticsĀ (Cambridge, 1977).

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Killing Noah’s Ark: The Story of the Zanesville Menagerie.

Before taking his own life, Terry Thompson, the owner of some 48 exotic animals, loosed the animals upon the small farming community of Zanesville, Ohio for reasons unknown. Nonetheless, the animals have all been killed in an effort to contain the chaos though the actions have been decried by some as inhumane and the images […]

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Gaddafi Dead: Dictator Killed Near His Hometown of Sirte.

Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril of the National Transitional Council informed reporters in Tripoli today that Gaddafi, hated former dictator of Libya, had been killed in action near his hometown of Sirte. Gaddafi was allegedly shot in the head in a drainage ditch while begging for his life. Video of the felled dictator being dragged through […]

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