Number of View: 3132 Phone Calls from the Dead: The results of a two-year investigation into an incredible phenomenon ($31.20) “There are three types of call: 1. People who had recently passed on or dead for years to out of the blue call family and friends. 2. The receiving kind: you call a house and [...]
Number of View: 3717 A camouflaged house. (Link) Rainbow House On Clipper St. (Link) London house decorated by the painter Stanley Donwood, photo by artofthestate. (Link) Once a symbol for all things chav, Burberry had successfully re-branded itself as one of the UK’s most sophisticated fashion labels. But a Norwegian artist looks set to undo all [...]
Number of View: 7882By David Morton The Middle Ages were not a nice period to live in by our cushy modern standards. Most people were poor, they suffered from disease, and their freedom was owned by wealthy landowners. And if you committed a crime and could not afford to pay a fine, your hand might [...]
Number of View: 3197The 55-year-old Indian businessman spent nearly £350,000 to achieve the record, which took him six years, 10 months and seven days. Mr Samaddar came back with an album of fascinating pictures of himself in offices, bars and hotel lobbies. The traveller first visited Holland in July, 2002, and finished his mission in [...]
Number of View: 2285It looks set to shift up to 150,000 copies on the first day of its release on Monday, a store said. HMV said initial sales from the chain and other entertainment retailers suggested Boyle’s debut album has been selling an amount that most major new albums would typically sell in a week. [...]
Number of View: 41341 Mukesh Ambani $32 billion-Sector:Oil and gas,Petrol e.t.c.,Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company. 2 Lakshmi Mittal $30 billion-Steel Plant Industries in Brazil, India and the Middle East. 3 Anil Ambani $17.5 billion-Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, with interests in telecom, power, infrastructure, financial services and entertainment. 4 Azim Premji $14.9 billion-Country’s third-largest [...]
Number of View: 5369 Most Spoons Balanced on the Face The most spoons balanced on the face is 16 and was achieved by Joe Allison (United Kingdom), aged 9, in Devon, United Kingdom, on 1 April 2008. Joe used stainless steel teaspoons. He balanced 5 spoons on the forehead, 4 on the cheeks, 1 on [...]
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Number of View: 9391Mother of Most Surviving Children From a Single Birth (8 babies) Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman Gutierrez, known as Octomom in the media, is an American woman who came to international attention when she gave birth to octuplets in January 2009. The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be [...]
Number of View: 3747 This unbelievable papercraft project, by Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create and features lights and a moving train. It’s probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture ever. The sculpture is called, in English, “A Castle on the Sea,” and is currently exhibited at Uminohotaru. The entire project, [...]
Number of View: 3804 (Link) (Link) Russian sand sculptor Wiaczeslaw Borecki carves a figure of Michael Jackson during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge, Belgium (Link) Sand sculptures representing ‘The World of Pirates‘ are seen during the Sand Sculptures Festival in Blankenberge. (Link) Part of the Circle, by Susanne Ruseler and Arianne van Rosmalen, St [...]
Number of View: 3581 Amnesia Although total amnesia is incredibly rare, some prescription drugs can also cause amnesia. This is the case for some users of Mirapex (generic name pramipexole). Mirapex was developed in 1997 to control the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and is also prescribed for people with Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). This medicine [...]
Number of View: 2326 ASIMO: the humanoid robot ASIMO is a humanoid robot created by Honda. Standing at 130 centimeters and weighing 54 kilograms, the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack, and can walk on two feet in a manner resembling human locomotion at up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph). ASIMO was created [...]
Number of View: 2762 Unbelievable images of people that seem to be beyond the pain. They are are piercing their thongs, faces and almost every part of their body, but they don’t seem to feel any pain. It’s so strange and impressive. Reminds me of the great fakirs, walking barefoot on burning coals, sitting or [...]
Number of View: 2879 No 1.Barack Obama President-United States of America-Age: 48 Presides over world’s largest, most innovative, most dynamic economy; commander-in-chief of planet’s richest, deadliest military; finger on button of nuclear arsenal containing more than 5,000 warheads; head-of-state of world’s sole superpower; his Democrats have majorities in both U.S. House and Senate; recently awarded [...]
Number of View: 2110 Capable of 30 minutes of flight at around 60 miles per hour, the Martin Jetpack can apparently go as high as 8,000 feet in the air. Naturally, its creator has equipped the device with an integrated ballistic parachute, just in case something goes wrong with its engine while you’re flying around. [...]
