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...museum, owned and operated by the Royal College of Surgeons, isn't for the weak of stomach. One of the first exhibits you'll see upon entry is the preserved intestine of a human fetus, prepared by Hunter for King George III in 1769. Steel-and-glass cabinets house hundreds of other anatomical curiosities: one jar contains the perfectly embalmed face of an 18th century adolescent boy who died from a nasal tumor. The 2.3-m skeleton of Irish giant Charles Byrne, bought by Hunter from an unscrupulous undertaker in 1783, dominates another display...
...Sept. 14 start, then for $5,800 you can join as a passenger, including flights, accommodation and events. The whole shebang ends with a black-tie dinner in Jerash. Expect five-star accommodation every night, as well as traditional Arabic and Bedouin cuisine. The expedition enjoys the royal patronage of Prince Faisal bin al-Hussein, and his brother King Abdullah II and sister-in-law Queen Rania may just make an appearance, as they did at the 2003 inaugural race. A motoring holiday it may be, but participants should expect much, much more than just deserts...
...helped organize a mob attack in the southern township of Majarr al-Kabir on June 24, 2003, that resulted in the execution of six British military-police officers. According to a classified British military-intelligence document, a local militia leader is "implicated in the murder of the 6 RMP [Royal Military Police]." The man heads a cell of the Mujahedin for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (MIRI), a paramilitary outfit coordinated out of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's base in Ahvaz, Iran. Although U.S. and British officers think it unlikely the soldiers were killed on orders from Revolutionary Guard officers, they...
...diverse corps of volunteers who provided intelligence and ground support to Allied forces during the war. "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal," American commander Admiral William Halsey said after the war, "and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific." Over a two-year period after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe in September 1939, Royal Australian Navy Commander Eric Feldt established a network of 100 Coastwatcher stations in a 4,000-km arc from the western border of Papua New Guinea to Vila in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu...
...Some sad news--King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has died. In respect, the Saudi royal family lowered their flag and raised their oil prices." --JAY LENO