http://www.snedblog.com Visit This Blog Every Day to Increase Your SNED-Q Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "A 21-year-old man who intentionally vomited on a spectator and his 11-year-old daughter at a Philadelphia Phillies game..." http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/assault-by-vomit/ After Ivan the Terrible died, he left a power vacuum, and Russia went through a number of rulers over the next few years. The list included one notable ruler, who wasn't Russian at all.  Known as False Dmitriy, this guy was actually Polish, and claimed to be the lost son of ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/they-sent-him-home-russian-style/ The Russian word Tsar (also sometimes spelled Czar) is the Russian translation for Caesar. Ivan III was the first Czar of Russia*.  He was searching for a way to unite the factious princedoms of Russia, and decided that embracing the Catholic Church was the way to do it. So he took a ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/tsar-czar-caesar/ When a six-foot man strode into a Long Island bank yesterday dressed as sci-fi super villain Darth Vader, customers and staff thought it was a joke. But they soon realised how serious the man was when he produced a handgun and demanded cash. Police in New York are now trying ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/times-are-tough-for-lord-vader-too/ I hated Evil Dead, but I'm a fan of Bruce Campbell anyway. His performance in Burn Notice (if you're not watching it, you should be) is spot on perfect. And another reason to like him- he's a man of the troops. Read here about the recent visit Campbell and his co-star Jeffrey Donovan ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-liked-bruce-campbell/ LEON, N.Y. (WIVB) - (RELEASE) After an investigation performed by the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office, 17 year old Amish boy, Levi Detweiler, was arrested on counts of underage possession of alcohol, overdriving an animal, reckless endangerment and failure to stop at a stop sign. The investigation found ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/overdriving-an-animal-illegal-in-new-york/ THE prime age for beauty in women is a relatively mature 31 years old, according to study published today. In the survey of more than 2000 British men and women, the fresh-faced look was rejected in favor of women in their late 20s and early 30s. Confidence was also found to ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/good-news-for-the-wife-shes-still-on-the-upswing/ The exams were made public this month by Pepe, who noted that they were riddled with spelling, grammar and factual errors. // The gaffes ranged from misspellings of words such as "truning around" and "For God's skae," to confusing instructions, to a page that read "This is the end of ... http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/over-100-errors-in-schools-final-exams/ "...an alleged extortion plot involving Mexican hit men hired by Wal-Mart, the Samoan mafia, an exotic dancer from Guam, her love child and a fearful farm family from Granite Falls, Minn." http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/what-the-heck-is-the-matter-with-people/ Man smuggling 18 monkeys into Mexico under his clothes arrested at airport for animal trafficking. http://www.snedblog.com/2010/07/monkey-smuggling/