Woman finds WWII grenade in potatoes
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A woman in a town near Naples got an unwelcome surprise when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put them into water to peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently left over from World War II.
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Somewhere in the world, there's a navy blue suitcase with a small pack of explosives tucked in its side pocket. Four days after police at Charles de Gaulle Airport slipped some plastic explosives into a random passenger's bag as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs, it is still missing &#151; and authorities are stumped and embarrassed.
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What appeared to be a metal staple was found Thursday in a Valentine's Day lollipop at an elementary school, a day after a woman reported a blade-like piece of metal in another bag of the same product. It has been pulled from the shelves of thousands of stores across the country.
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A look at some insurgent-linked material recovered by the U.S. military in Iraq:
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Two suspected incendiary devices are found by a member of staff at an Oxford University college.
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Suzanne Swift remembers standing in her mother's living room, hours away from her second deployment to Iraq. Her military gear had already been shipped--along with her Game Boy, her DVDs and books, her favorite pink pillow, her stash of sunflower seeds. She had the car keys in......
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - A grenade exploded in a classroom used by Serb children in Kosovo on Tuesday, but the elementary school pupils escaped injury, police said.
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A foam substitute found in nuclear bombs makes superior sticks. By Heather Bourbeau from Wired magazine.
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LIBERTY, Ohio - A grocery store manager was struck in the head with a 10-pound sack of potatoes by a customer angry about having to wait in line, police say. Police in Liberty, near Youngstown in northeast Ohio, say a 59-year-old woman from Youngstown is suspected in the attack.
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Poland had a strong resistance - but the uprising was crushed Historians in Poland have discovered the wreckage of a World War II RAF Halifax bomber along with the remains of its British and Canadian crew.Comment
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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Lebanese security forces defused a bomb hidden in a potato chip packet and arrested the man who was carrying it, police said in a statement.
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MIAMI - The US government has agreed to settle with Holocaust survivors who claim that Army officers during World War II plundered a trainload of family treasures that had been seized by the Nazis.
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The 97-year-old widow of a New Zealand soldier who led a dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Greece was overcome with emotion yesterday when she came face to face with the man who, as a boy, helped her husband ...
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VIENNA, Austria -- It now appears that nearly 400 tons of high-powered explosives may have disappeared from an Iraqi ammunition depot before US troops seized the facility during the opening days of the war against Saddam Hussein.
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CHICAGO - A groundskeeper found a rusted, hollowed-out shell of a grenade in the right-field turf of Chicago's Wrigley Field.  The grenade was found Tuesday morning by a worker at the home of the Chicago Cubs.
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A rusty hand grenade was found in a garden in the grounds of Hilton Apartment complex here on Monday morning, prompting an increase in security there.