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By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Is there a limit to what you'd do to raise money for charity? An Australian man who fancies himself a real-life "spiderman" is spending three weeks trapped in a storefront window with hundreds of poisonous spiders, hoping to break a record for habitation with creepy-crawlies and raise money for a local children's charity. Nick Le Souef, a 67-year-old opal miner from Melbourne, stepped into the 12-by-4-foot window of his downtown shop today, where he plans to spend the next three weeks sleeping, eating and working alongside some of Australia's most deadly arachnids -- redbacks, ...
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySome 70 years ago, actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood responded to the accusation "You speak treason!" with the now-classic retort, "Fluently." We all loved that kind of treason, and maybe you'll learn to love this kind too. You gotta admit Mr. Assange is hot. (Yes, I'm shallow. All you deep people out there, move along.) Julian Assange, whose website WikiLeaks just released 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, hails from Errol Flynn's country of Australia. As does the charismatic Hugh Jackman. Jackman alone makes up for Australia giving us pop crooner Peter Allen (whom ...
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