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...Subject surfed "Torvald's ?Not Safe for Work' Anna Kournikova Shrine" (website domain confirmed as Mr. Torvald Nordstr?m's of Vigelandsbruk, Norway). After browsing through several JPEG galleries, subject lingered on photo of a sunbathing Ms. Kournikova for six minutes...
...friendly fellow from Fort Collins, Colo., who has been often a finalist but never a winner. But in 2005 a kid gunslinger hit town: Tyler Hinman, 20, a student at Renssselaer Polytechnic Institute, who can do the Sunday Times puzzle in six to eight minutes. He also has a shrine to beer in his dorm room...
...fields of Highways 12 and A, a retired farmer stands above a pond and keeps watch over a dozen ducklings and geese. But hanging on a wall behind the gentle 87-year-old man, taped in white lettering on a granite fa?ade, is a haunting welcome to a startling shrine. ?Honorary Hall for Adolf Hitler: Before You Pass Judgment, Give Careful and Equal Consideration to Both Sides...
...erect the memorial, which was completed rather quietly until it was noticed recently by the local papers. Not surprisingly, it has elicited a storm of outrage, so much so that the grand opening set for June 25 was canceled on Thursday after police warned that Junker, and his shrine, could be targeted. Sugar Creek Township Chairman Loren Waite calls Junker ?a mixed-up old man ... I hope he?s just confused.? Jewish and anti-hate groups warn that Nazi sympathizers have been known to populate the heavily German areas of southern and southeastern Wisconsin, and decry Junker for rewriting history...
...emergency emir" in charge of al-Qaeda in Iraq (a.k.a., al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia). He has been a long-standing commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq, having had positions as the emir in charge of Anbar province and the emir in charge of Samarra, north of Baghdad, where the shrine bombing occurred in late February. (It is unclear if he had a hand in that in that incident, which brought Iraq closer to a Shi'a-Sunni civil war than ever before.) Lately, says Abu Bara, Abu Abdul Rahman al Iraqi had been the "right hand" of Zarqawi...