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...sightings have been officially recorded in Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Australia and the United Kingdom, but the most complete records were those of Project Blue Book. The earliest UFO sightings in recorded history can be found in 4th century Chinese texts claiming that a "moon boat" hovered above China every 12 years. Other enthusiasts cite the Book of Ezekiel, in which a curious vessel dropped from the sky and landed in Chaldea, in modern-day Kuwait. A wave of sightings occurred near Rome in 218 B.C. and again in Germany in 1561. During World War II, Allied pilots coined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UFOs | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...drove up on a motorcycle and fired 11 bullets into Julian Aristides Gonzalez's body. His devastated wife rushed to the scene and kissed the corpse of the 57-year-old former general. He had been planning to retire within two months and move his family to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Murder of Honduras' Drug Czar | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

...troupe's Toronto branch such as John Candy and Eugene Levy. The series introduced the stereotypical, "eh"-saying Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, played with aplomb by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis. The McKenzie brothers hosted The Great White North, a commentary show with topics ranging from Canada's geography to tutorials on how to trick beer companies into giving you a free case by stuffing a mouse in a bottle. The McKenzie brothers went on to star in commercials for Pizza Hut and, not surprisingly, Molson, North America's oldest brewery. (See SCTV in the 100 Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...come to like Thanksgiving even though it was not a big deal in Canada at all. It’s an acquired tradition when I moved here to Cambridge...We spend it in Truro, where the pilgrims landed before they came to Plymouth. They anchored in Provincetown and they sent out a party that found water and corn in Truro. They thanked God when they should have really thanked the Indians...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hey Professor: Holiday Edition | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...California-based giant has already made some concessions to publishers. Under a pending settlement reached with U.S. publishers' groups, Google has agreed to limit its archiving to works that have been registered in the U.S., or come from the U.K., Australia, and Canada - English-speaking countries whose authors are present in American libraries. That agreement would nominally exclude books from countries like France and Germany, and from China, which has also objected to the digitization project on copyright grounds. Still, the accord must be approved by a U.S. federal court review in February - not a slam-dunk affair, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe vs. Google: The Next Chapter | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

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