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POPSFresh doubts over Hitler's death Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday.
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POPSDNA test shows Hitler skull is that of a woman A year later, skull fragments were dug up by Russian forces which seemed to confirm Hitler had shot himself in the bunker. In 1970, the KGB cremated Hitler’s remains except for the skull fragment. Dr Bellantoni was sceptical about the theory the skull fragments belong to Eva Braun, who was with Hitler in the bunker where he supposedly died. "There is no report of Eva Braun having shot herself or having been shot afterwards. It could be anyone. Many people were killed around the bunker area," he said.
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POPSBritain/U.S. knew about extermination of Jews, Vatican claims
The editorial is the Vatican's latest effort to rehabilitate the reputation of Pope Pius, whose reluctance to denounce the Nazis publicly prompted accusations of anti-Semitism and earned him the title "Hitler's Pope". L'Osservatore dismissed such claims as a "radically false" characterisation of the pontiff's wartime record. It quoted Morgenthau as saying that as early as Aug 1942, the US government "knew that the Nazis were planning to exterminate all the Jews of Europe". In his diary, Morgenthau cited a telegram dated Aug 24, 1942, and passed on to the US State Department, that relayed a report of Hitler's plan to kill between 3.5 million and four million Jews, possibly using cyanide poison. L'Osservatore, which is regarded as the semi-official mouthpiece of the Holy See, reproduced a copy of the telegram. American officials had "dodged their grim responsibility, procrastinated when concrete rescue schemes were placed before them, and even suppressed information about
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POPS Sweetheart Deal For A Terrorist a New York City “day of terror” on which bombings would be carried out at the U.N. complex and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, potentially killing thousands of people. The plot was thwarted. After being convicted at trial, Abdelgani was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment. His co-defendants received in excess of 30 years—most of them got 35 years; two were sentenced to life imprisonment because they were complicit in murder plots for which a life sentence was then available. As the Obama DOJ’s National Security Division chief David Kris put it in Justice’s press release, “The facts admitted by al-Marri today demonstrate that he attended terrorist training camps, learned al-Qaeda tradecraft and was dispatched by the highest levels of al-Qaeda to carry out its terrorist objectives in America.” Those terrorist objectives included weapons of mass destruction attacks, particularly with cyanide.
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POPSNew species discovered in Greater Mekong Discovering new species all the time! Among the most bizarre to be discovered was a hot-pink, spiny dragon millipede, Desmoxytes purpurosea.. The millipedes have glands that produce cyanide to protect them from predators. Scientists believe that the shocking-pink colouration is a warning that they would make a fatal snack. "They would do well to heed this warning," concluded a WWF report on the Greater Mekong discoveries.
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POPSDeath of the Poison Pill? I'd be interested in exploring the FactSet MergerMetrics numbers around technology companies in particular. I'm not sure the Valley has done away with their poison pill contingency plans just yet.
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