Tag Archives: libya

New Year’s Traffic Death Festival 2019

January 3, 2019 – 8:34 pm

The Thai Festival for the end of 2018 has come to an end. The police are are overwhelmed by the traffic, as milliions of Thais travel to the distant provinces to see their families. The holiday death toll reached over 400 with countless thousands injured in car and motorcycle accidents. Driving drunk is a norm. […]

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Who Done It

September 16, 2012 – 12:16 pm

Violent protests against the film trailer INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS continue to plague the Muslim world and US officials have attempted to find out who made the incendiary fourteen-minute movie that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya along with two of his fellow countrymen. The blame has shifted from a fictitious filmmaker […]

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Never No Hotter

July 25, 2011 – 9:01 am

Hottest temperature ever recorded on the surface of this planet was 57.8 °C (136 °F) at Al ‘Aziziyah, Libya on September 9, 1922 Having been in 117 F, I can’t imagine how much hotter is 136 F. Damn hot.

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