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Grant teased Thornton about Disraeli phobia
NEW YORK, April 26 (UPI) -- British actor Hugh Grant admits to taunting his "Love Actually" co-star Billy Bob Thornton about his phobia of former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Biologists have observed a theory of species evolution known as the founder effect in action for the first time, U.S. university researchers reported.
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
'Lost' Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered
KEYWORTH, England, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A collection of fossils lost for 165 years, including some collected by Charles Darwin, have been rediscovered in a British vault, scientists said.
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A fairly broad view of U.S. banking reforms adopted since the financial crisis of 2008 reveals surprisingly little for a clear reason: Not much has changed.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. anthropologist says his new book uses modern scientific knowledge to fill in pieces missing from Charles Darwin's original argument for evolution.
VALPARAISO, Chile, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile in February 2010 did not relieve seismic stress as expected and earthquake risk remains high in the area, researchers say.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 5 (UPI) -- Charles Darwin was right to worry that his children may suffer because of intermarriage between his family and his wife's, U.S. and Spanish researchers said.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman was the runner-up for the 2009 Darwin Award, the first female to contend for the honorific recognizing stupidly fatal behavior.
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Lil Niqo arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California
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Rapper Lil Niqo arrives at the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California on June 3, 2012. UPI/Jim Ruymen