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Unusual - Not usual or common or ordinary; In a way or to a degree that is uncommon or exceptional "a scene of unusual beauty" "a man of unusual ability" "cruel and unusual punishment" "an unusual meteorite"
Strange - Being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"
Paranormal - Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation: such paranormal phenomena as telepathy; a medium's paranormal powers.
Serial killer - someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
Extraterrestrial - Originating, located, or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere: intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Conspiracies - A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
Gadgets - Small specialized mechanical or electronic device; a contrivance.
Inventions - The act or process of inventing. A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation.
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 Mysterious giants inhabit Eurasian lakes |
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May 16, 2008 - 8:20 PM - by pavelino
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Paul Stonehill
Issik Kul is a remote deep-water lake located in the northern Tian Shan Mountains, in the Transiliysk Ala Tau area of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia). The name means “warm water”; the lake is surrounded by snow-capped peaks but it never freezes.
According to a well-informed Ukrainian writer V. Krapiva, in the late 1930s a Russian researcher of the... [Read More]
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£1m grant to see if robot can stir soup |
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May 14, 2008 - 9:23 PM - by pavelino
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Please humanoid, I want some more
A £1 million grant has been awarded to British scientists to find out if a robot can safely stir soup in a kitchen, it emerged today.
If the experiment funded by the European Commission is successful... [Read More]
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German Archaeologist on Trail of Ark of the Covenant |
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May 14, 2008 - 8:59 PM - by pavelino
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By Roger Boyes
BERLIN — It is only a breathless Hollywood script: treasure-hunter Indiana Jones races with German archaeologists to track down the fabled Ark of the Covenant, the chest that held the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were etched.
Now German researchers claim to have found the remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba — and an altar that... [Read More]
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Heavens big enough for both God and aliens, says Vatican astronomer |
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May 14, 2008 - 8:41 PM - by pavelino
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By ARIEL DAVID
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published yesterday.
Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could... [Read More]
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Britain puts formerly secret files of reported UFO sightings online |
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May 14, 2008 - 8:37 PM - by pavelino
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Reuters and staff
May 14, 2008 at 4:14 AM EDT
LONDON — Their craft come in all shapes, sizes and colours but their occupants are uniformly green, as in little green men. That's according to just released files from Britain's Ministry of Defence concerning public sightings of, and occasional reported encounters with, unidentified flying objects.
The... [Read More]
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Bible 'pretty childish' |
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May 14, 2008 - 8:27 PM - by pavelino
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By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON — Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core?
A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of... [Read More]
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Granny Ghost Video Freaks Out Half Of Asia. |
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May 14, 2008 - 5:26 AM - by pavelino
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This video has surfaced recently of an apparent granny ghost in an elevator, captured by an office building's CCTV system in Singapore.
At first, it was described as happening in the Volkswagen office tower in Shanghai, China ... prompting officials there to say it wasn't recorded in their offices.
Then, it became known as the Raffles Place ghost in Singapore.
Anyway, it's... [Read More]
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'Holy Stones' prompt investigation |
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May 14, 2008 - 5:09 AM - by pavelino
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NEWARK - Trying to preserve the Union during a tumultuous time in history, several prominent local men conspired and manufactured artifacts to support an emerging anti-slavery theory.
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Known as Newark's Holy Stones, the artifacts later were proven to be fake. But two local men have done extensive research to discover the reasons behind the conspiracy.
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Welcome to Truly Unusual Wards (forums)
unusual: adjective
different from others of the same type in a way that is surprising, interesting or attractive:
"Do you like the new settee?" "Very much, it's most unusual."
[+ to infinitive] It's unusual to have adult conversation like that with such a young child.I was actually on time, which is unusual for me.
Entry Word: unusual Function: adjective
Text: 1 noticeably different from what is generally found or experienced (finding some unusual shells by the high-tide mark, we brought them home for our collection)
Synonyms curious, extraordinary, funny, odd, offbeat, peculiar, queer, rare, singular, strange, unaccustomed, uncommon, uncustomary, unique, weird
Related Words bizarre, eccentric, far-out, outlandish, outré, way-out; aberrant, abnormal, atypical, exceptional, irregular; newsworthy, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, particular, remarkable, special Near Antonyms unexceptional; expected, predictable; familiar, normal, regular, typical Antonyms common, ordinary, usual
2 being out of the ordinary (accepted the award with unusual grace and humility)
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