UPI Almanac for Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.

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SAN ANTONIO, June 23 (UPI) -- Frequent visitors to a delicatessen in San Antonio, Texas, say a pair of dive-bombing grackles have been pecking customers' heads.

NEW YORK, June 17 (UPI) -- New York authorities said a man donned a dress, wig and makeup to impersonate his dead mother and collect Social Security and rent subsidies.

LOS ANGELES, June 4 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies this week unveiled its list of 15 of what is says are some of the most overlooked classic Hollywood directors.

MOULIDARS, France, May 18 (UPI) -- Three British women were recovering after being attacked by a huge swarm of bees in what witnesses in France described as a scene from a horror movie.

LOS ANGELES, April 22 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to 52 of cinema's greatest directors with a month-long festival in June, the U.S. network said.

HOLLYWOOD, March 22 (UPI) -- A private funeral was held for longtime Hollywood illustrator and production designer Dorothea Holt Redmond, who died last month at age 98, her daughter said.

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Postal Service says it's marking the 200th birthday of author and poet Edgar Allan Poe with a special stamp.