| October 3, 2004 | - Scientists were investigating the appearance of hermaphrodite fish in Colorado's South Platte River; the fish were found near two wastewater discharge pipes.
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USA Today
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| February 21, 2004 | -
Colin Powell said that the conquest of Iraq was justified because Saddam Hussein would have used weapons of mass destruction if only he had had some.
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Associated Press
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| February 9, 2004 | - People in Jakarta were watching out for the kolor ijo, or green underpants monster, that has been attacking people and raping women.
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News.com.au
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| August 27, 2002 | -
More than a dozen people were killed during rioting and lynchings following attacks in Lucknow, India, by a mysterious “muhnochwa,” or “face-clawing monster” that flashes blue, red, or green and strikes only at night.
Although police surmised that the attacker was an extraterrestrial being, scientists suspect that the victims were assaulted by lightning balls, which are sometimes created during droughts.
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| June 26, 2001 | -
Cookie Monster was beaten up at a theme park in Pennsylvania after he refused to pose for a photograph with a three-year-old girl.
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| June 19, 2001 | -
Monster hunters were searching Lough Ree in Ireland for a creature with an eel's body and the head of a horse.
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| May 8, 2001 | - The Pope visited Greece, the first such visit in about 1,300 years; Orthodox Christians protested, apparently still upset about the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, and held up insulting placards calling the Holy Father, among other things, a “two-horned monster of Rome.” President Macapagal Arroyo declared that a “state of rebellion” existed in Manila as thousands of supporters of former president Joseph Estrada (who was arrested recently on corruption charges, fingerprinted, and photographed like a common thief) stormed the presidential palace.
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