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BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary". oh, hindsight.
internet  bbc  history 
october 2009 by rebekahheacock
BBC NEWS | Africa | Man bites snake in epic struggle
""I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he said. "I had to bite it."
news  kenya  africa  bbc  snakes 
april 2009 by rebekahheacock
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | 'Our hunt for the Nazis is over'
"Most famously, Mrs Klarsfeld, a German from a Christian background, publicly slapped the West German Chancellor Kurt-George Kiesinger in 1968, because of his former role as director of Nazi propaganda broadcasting, a blow that resonated around Europe and that helped bring about Kiesinger's fall from power. That slap is still discussed in German schools today, such was its significance."
news  history  bbc  WWII 
march 2009 by rebekahheacock

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