Anyone For Lunch
Posted on August 13, 2009 by admin in General
If you live in the tropics, from time to time you will see multiple legged centipedes scurrying across the ground. Everyone knows they have quite a nasty bite, so you give them a wide berth. However, some are not so cautious. The old saying is that curiosity killed the cat. That is not always the [...]
Your Dogs Name Could Put You In A Dog Fight
Posted on August 12, 2009 by admin in Entertainment
People often struggle to find the perfect name for their dog. However, when an American movie maker decided to call a dog in the film, Anwar Sadat, after the late Egyptian president, he ended up in the middle of a dog fight. One of the characters in the romantic comedy film ‘I Love You Man’, [...]
Atishoo We All Fall Down
Posted on August 11, 2009 by admin in Environment
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Beijing and a plane falls out of the sky in New York, who is sneezing where, to make multi-storey buildings collapse? First there was the notorious 13-floor Lotus Riverside apartment building in Minhang, Shanghai, China, that fell over, fortunately before it was occupied. The foundation of the building [...]
Hair For Diamonds
Posted on August 11, 2009 by admin in Business, Society
The next time you go to your hairdressers, you might like to consider the value of what is left lying on the floor. In the ‘Roaring Twenties’ the world was first introduced to the cultured pearl, which threw the pearl industry into spasms. Now the same revolution is taking place in the sparkling world of [...]
Giant Living Sculptures
Posted on August 10, 2009 by admin in General
Free flowing, giant icebergs provide the world’s greatest show on earth of living sculpture. Combining the action of wind, wave and temperature, the ever changing play of light creates a spectacle beyond compare. Ice, that has formed at the polar caps, eventually breaks off from either glaciers, or ice shelves. This calving from the mother [...]
Clinton Not Cavalry To The Rescue
Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin in Politics
Kim Jong II, North Korea, issued a special pardon and released two women journalists, when former President Bill Clinton rode in on his white charger – a jet plane, in a surprise 24 hour visit to North Korea. The journalists, Laura Ling, 32 and Euna Lee, 36, were sentenced in June to 12 years hard [...]
Rubbish Quartz Worth A Fortune
Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin in Business, Environment
A few decades ago, quartz was associated with New Age circles, holistic health and the most recent innovation of holistic jewelry. A natural crystal by definition means quartz has a regular arrangement of atoms which vibrate at a very stable frequency. These characteristics make quartz an excellent receptor and emitter of electromagnetic waves and a [...]
Kidnapping Unborn Children
Posted on August 2, 2009 by admin in Women
Kidnapping takes on a whole new face when it involves cutting unborn, nearly full-term babies from the mother’s womb. Investigating a foul smell in the closet on the second floor, the landlord of a small apartment building in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, discovered the mutilated body of a mother of three wrapped in bedding. Eight [...]
