Originally published Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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Hitler returns to Berlin as wax
Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services.
Update
Hitler returns
Adolf Hitler has returned to Berlin. Madame Tussaud's said Saturday it had returned a wax figure of the Nazi dictator to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German. Hitler's figure can be viewed sitting at a desk in a replica of his bunker, said Madame Tussaud's, the British waxworks maker. Hitler committed suicide in the bunker in 1945 as the Red Army converged on Berlin.
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Cleanup contest
Hundreds of Mexicans wearing rubber gloves are fishing for bottles, plastic bags and tin cans in a competition to clean a reservoir near Texas. Rather than hooking trout and catfish, more than 300 people Saturday heeded calls to help clean up La Boca reservoir, 105 miles south of the U.S. border. Authorities expect participants in the "trash fishing" contest will remove up to 50 tons of garbage. The person who collects the most debris will take home a television, DVDs, theater tickets and toys.
Discovery
Ancient camel?
Scientists have unearthed a camel jawbone in the Syrian desert that they think may be a previously unknown tiny species of the animal and may date back 1 million years. The jawbone was found last month near the village of Khowm in the Palmyra region, about 150 miles northeast of Damascus, said Heba al-Sakhel, the head of the Syrian National Museum, who was one of the leaders of the team of Syrian and Swiss researchers.
People
A visit to Martha
Martha Stewart, 67, whose unique style of domestic existence has won her countless devotees, will welcome the world into her private home Monday. The special episode of "The Martha Stewart Show" will give viewers a tour of the 153-acre Cantitoe Corners farm in Bedford, N.Y. Stewart says she simply wants to quench fans' thirst: "So many people ask me, 'What's the farm like?' "
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Battlestar to Earth
The meanest, baddest "Battlestar Galactica" pilot, Katee Sackhoff, who plays Starbuck, has signed to star in NBC's Dick Wolf-produced crime drama "Lost and Found," the Hollywood Reporter says. Katee will play an "offbeat" LAPD detective who has a talent for rubbing people the wrong way.
Today in History
1814: Francis Scott Key was inspired to write his poem "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing how Fort McHenry in Maryland had endured British bombardment during the War of 1812.
1901: President William McKinley died in Buffalo, N.Y., of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1975: Pope Paul VI declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.
1982: Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, died at age 52 of injuries from a car crash a day earlier.
Today's Birthdays
Actress Zoe Caldwell, 75. Actor Harve Presnell, 75. Feminist author Kate Millett, 74. Actor Walter Koenig, 72. Singer-actress Joey Heatherton, 64. Actress Michelle Stafford, 43. Actor Dan Cortese, 40. Actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, 37. Rapper Nas, 35. Singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, 25.
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