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Christopher Columbus' accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and cannibalized men - stories long dismissed as myths. But a new study suggests Columbus may have been telling the truth. Using the equivalent of facial recognition technology, researchers analyzed the skulls of early Caribbean inhabitants, uncovering relationships between people groups and upending longstanding hypotheses about how the islands were first colonized. One surprising finding was that the Caribs, marauders from South America and rumored cannibals, invaded Jamaica, Hispaniola and the Bahamas, overturning half a century of assumptions that they never made it farther north...

FOLKESTONE, KENT, UK — A grieving woman plans to pay tribute to her late mother — by seasoning her Christmas meal with her ashes, and then eating them. Debra Parsons, 41, will sprinkle the cremains of her mother, Doreen Brown, on the turkey and dessert. “We will have a place laid for her and a picture of her on the table so she can be with us on the very special day,” Parsons says. The mother-of-two from Kent was left distraught when her mother died in May. She told The Mirror that consuming the ashes is “the only thing that...

Pietermaritzburg - A community meeting following the arrest of four Estcourt men for allegedly killing a person and eating human flesh saw hundreds of residents allegedly confess to having eaten human body parts procured from one of the accused. The four men, Nino Mbatha (32), Sthembiso Sithole (31), Lindokuhle Masondo (32) and Lungisani Magubane (30), appeared in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of murder and conspiracy. This after one of the four men allegedly walked into the Estcourt police station on Friday, holding human body parts and confessed to being “tired of eating human flesh”. When he...

AUSTIN, Texas – Parents of school children across Texas now are gaining access to a previously secret public school curriculum, according to an announcement from a state lawmaker. The CSCOPE program, an online offering that until now has prohibited, under penalty of law, teachers from sharing the lessons with parents, stirred up controversy because of its various lessons – some that were taken offline after the questions arose. Among those issues were that the curriculum at one point taught the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism and Christians were cannibals, and forced students to draw a socialist flag...

PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters Life!) - A French prisoner who killed his cellmate "very probably" ate some of the victim's body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday. The victim's body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim's heart. Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim's heart was "found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact," Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said...

Introduction Wal-Mart's Critics Wal-Mart's Response Wealth Productivity Prices Poverty Wal-Mart's Critics on Wealth Capital Jobs Wages Healthcare Benefits Executive Wages Conclusions About the Critics A Proper Wal-Mart Response Recommended Reading Wal-Mart is one of the great shining examples of what a market economy can achieve. If I were to give a tour of the United States to visitors from a socialist country, who are used to experiencing chronic shortages of almost everything, Wal-Mart would be one of the first places I would take them. It is a perfect symbol of one of the most remarkable things that we have...

"Jobs Americans won't do" By: RICK REISS - Commentary Temecula has become an epicenter in the debate on illegal immigration. Last year, the Temecula Border Patrol station conducted numerous sweeps of illegal immigrants throughout the region. Political pressure quickly ended this operation. To his chagrin, a top Homeland Security official later faced an outraged public for shutting down these sweeps. Public outrage over the federal government's failure to control immigration spawned the creation of voluntary citizen patrols along the border. One such Minuteman Project effort just recently finished in Campo. A similar border watch project is scheduled for the Otay...

BERLIN - A court in Berlin heard on Tuesday how the bizarre case of a man who killed and partially ate his gay lover prompted a Berlin man to do the same thing with a sexual encounter he made over the Internet. The 41-year-old unemployed house painter, who faces charges of murder, confessed before Berlin State Court judges and said he gave in to "the dark side of my personality" by killing and dismembering a sex partner last year. The unnamed defendant told the court he had intended to follow in the footsteps of Armin Meiwes, the gay man in...

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- The Newark man who was mistakenly accused of cannibalism is suing a doctor and the Newark and Parsippany police departments. Victor Salazar and his wife said they suffered embarrassment and needed counseling after an X-ray at Immediate Medical Care Center in Parsippany last year raised questions about his diet. When a doctor asked if he had eaten any bones, Salazar forgot about the soup he had the day before that included pieces of chicken feet. Radiologists and the Morris County medical examiner wondered if the film showed bits of finger bones, so police began an investigation. It...

N.J. Man Investigated About Possible Cannibalism After Eating Soup With Chicken Feet PARSIPPANY, N.J. March 20 — Victor Salazar went to the hospital with back pain and had an X-ray that raised questions about his diet, not his spine. When a doctor asked if he had eaten any bones, Salazar said no, forgetting about the soup he had the day before that included pieces of chicken feet. He left, but radiologists and the Morris County medical examiner wondered if the film showed bits of finger bones. A police investigation began. Newark homicide investigators went to Salazar's home in Newark on...

JAPANESE soldiers butchered Australian soldiers for food on the Kokoda Track, veterans have claimed. Sixty years after they fought on the infamous track, Australian veterans say cannibalism was common among enemy troops after their supply lines were cut. In a Sky TV documentary to be aired today, one digger describes finding the body of an Australian sergeant with his heart and liver missing, and strips of flesh cut from the arms, legs and buttocks. Disobeying orders not to engage the enemy, he says that the patrol pursued the Japanese and found four of them cooking the human flesh. The veterans...