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Here’s a little tidbit for you. One thing we know for sure, Sarah Palin is probably a lot better bowler than you know who!

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, 2008 – During the early days of World War II, the Bowler’s Victory League completed its first project of purchasing two medical evacuation planes to bring wounded troops home. Some 66 years later, the organization’s name is slightly different, but the organization’s mission is still very much the same. “The Bowlers to Veterans Link was founded in 1942 as the Bowler’s Victory Legion to support the men returning from the battlefields of Europe,” said Elizabeth Montanya, a spokeswoman for the group. “(Since then), BVL has provided the extras not funded by the government to our active-duty...

That’s a CROC !! A French-sponsored 12 member Peruvian exploration team has discovered the fossil remains of a 46 foot crocodile – deep in the Amazon jungle. It is believed the entire Amazon Basin was once an inland sea – stretching from Atlantic to Pacific, and inhabited by creatures such as this monster and a relatively demure and petite giant armadillo – whose fossil was also found nearby. The crocodile fossil, which included skeleton, jaws, and very large teeth , indicates the creature may have had a head measuring four feet across ; and it probably weighed “about 9 tons...

<p>By Associated Press, 10/15/2002 15:22 WINDHAM, N.H. (AP) A group of bowlers who stopped a man from leaving a bowling alley with an 8-year-old girl helped thwart a kidnapping, authorities said.</p> <p>Gerard Bean, 55, was arraigned on a charge of attempted child abduction Tuesday, two days after he allegedly walked out of the bowling alley with the girl.</p>