| October 5, 2011 | - Senate Democrats added a 5 percent surtax on millionaires to President Obama's $447-billion jobs bill, and Republican state representative Ritch Workman of Melbourne, Florida, filed a bill to reinstate the practice of dwarf-tossing, which was banned in 1989. “All that it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get,” said Workman.
| Source 1:
Associated Press via MSNBC
Source 2:
Palm Beach Post
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| July 20, 2008 | - “Easterbunny,” a red, methane-covered dwarf planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, was designated as the third plutoid in our solar system and rechristened “Makemake.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 10, 2008 | -
French and Canadian
astronomers announced the discovery of the coldest brown-dwarf star on record, 40 light-years away.
| Source 1:
AP via Google News
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| January 24, 2008 | -
Dwarf thieves had infested Swedish buses.
| Source:
Ananova
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| October 11, 2006 | - In Bombay, where the city courts faced a backlog of 16,234,223 cases, police arrested a drunk three-foot-tall man for extorting money from people with a meat cleaver. “Everyone pampered him because he was so small and cute,” said the man's brother. “But he has brought great misfortune for the family.”
| Source 1:
Mumbai Mirror
Source 2:
Mumbai Mirror
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| September 14, 2006 | - The dwarf
planet Xena was renamed Eris, for the Greek goddess of discord, and the planet's moon was named Dysnomia, for the spirit of lawlessness.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| September 1, 2006 | - A 10-pound, 20-inch-tall, 14-year-old Nepalese boy claimed to be the world's smallest adult.
| Source:
AP via Boston Globe
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| July 21, 2006 | -
Research revealed that giant thermonuclear explosions detected in the constellation Ophiuchus were caused by a Red Giant star dumping gas onto a White Dwarf star.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| June 5, 2006 | - A new study found that the quality of men's sperm deteriorates as they grow older and could lead to an increase in dwarf babies.
| Source:
AP
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| April 11, 2006 | - A member of MiniKiss, a KISS tribute band made up of dwarves, denied that he had tried to sneak past security at a Las Vegas concert of Tiny Kiss, a KISS tribute band made up of three little people and a 350-pound woman.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| July 18, 2005 | - Investigations into the expenses of former Tyco executive Dennis Kozlowski revealed that Kozlowski had once held an extravagant
bachelor party for his son-in-law. “It wasn't like a three-ring circus,” said the son-in-law's father. “It was a nice party. There was only one dwarf.”
| Source:
New York Daily News
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| June 14, 2005 | - An achondroplastic dwarf in Florida named Molly Beavers sued Wal-Mart for firing her from her job at Sam's Club because she did not smile enough; Beavers cannot smile because her face is partially paralyzed.
| Source:
St. Petersburg Times
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| June 7, 2005 | -
Dwarves fought bulls in Mexico.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 29, 2005 | -
Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika insisted that he was not afraid of ghosts but did not comment on reports that one of his predecessors had often been visited by mysterious dwarfs.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 6, 2003 | - There was rioting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, after two dwarf comedians were substituted for a pair of Nigerian midgets called Aki and Paw Paw, who didn't show up for a performance.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 1, 2002 | -
The United Nations Human Rights Committee upheld France's ban on dwarf tossing; a 3-foot 9-inch stuntman had filed a claim saying the ban was discriminatory and had cost him his job in a discotheque.
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| December 4, 2001 | - A 38-inch-tall Floridian
dwarf sued to overturn Florida's ban on dwarf-tossing.
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| August 7, 2001 | - A family of dwarves won 11 medals in the World Dwarf Games.
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