The shocking death of Benazir Bhutto has turned into a confounding argument over the cause.Early reports said she’d died in a bomb blast. Then reports of gunshots surfaced. Now amateur photos show two possible attackers: a clean-cut (alleged) gunman and a head-scarf-wearing (alleged) bomber.
Two years ago we noted that TV host Dick Clark was born the same year as Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr..
The New York Times has posted a rather stunning slideshow with commentary by John Moore, a photographer who covered the last rally of Benazir Bhutto and saw her killed.
The BBC and the International Herald Tribune report that Benazir Bhutto has been killed at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She was reportedly shot by an assassin who then detonated a suicide bomb.
Novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer… evangelists Jerry Falwell and Tammy Faye Bakker… Derby champ Barbaro and talking chimp Washoe. They’re all celebrities who passed away in 2007.Here’s our full list.
Rough water has blocked Revolutionary War buffs from reenacting George Washington’s historic crossing of the Delaware River.”This time, Delaware crosses up Washington” reports the Newark Star-Ledger.
Look at ’em all.
On Christmas Eve of 1968, the astronauts of Apollo 8 read aloud from the book of Genesis as they circled the moon.
Sign o’ the times: Queen Elizabeth’s Christmas Address will appear on YouTube.
This is the last day of the working or school year for many of our users.With that in mind: Happy holidays! And thanks to you all for another wonderful year. Who2 will turn 10 years old in 2008, and we wouldn’t have done it without you.Yes, Virginia, the Internet is a Santa Claus, with more gifties, tinsel, lumps of coal and candy canes than any of us could have imagined in 1998.And Groundhog’s Day is only six weeks away!