Jun 14 2008
He was an expert at journalism, politics and the ways of the world, yes, but he also seemed to have mastered happiness. He’d won trophies and plaques and certificates by the score, and if there were an award for getting what you want out of life,...
May 30 2008
Simply one of the most fascinating archaeological mysteries of human history is that surrounding Stonehenge. No one is really quite sure why it exists, who built it, where it came from, what it did, or any other question you might try to pose. Was it a...
May 9 2008
Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6 lb) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a...
Apr 28 2008
Police have found a woman missing since 1984, who told authorities that her father had kept her in a cellar for almost 24 years and that she had given birth to seven children after being repeatedly raped by him. The 73-year-old father was taken into...
Apr 23 2008
While I was pulling an all-nighter this weekend watching YouTube, my stomach started to growl even though I’d had like a whole thing of goldfish crackers and a bottle of Kahlua, and as I popped a diet pill and scratched a couple scabs off my...
Apr 20 2008
It is almost impossible to mention religion without some debate issuing forth. Fundamentalist Christians like to use the Bible as their sole source of “revelation” and will argue for hours from its pages. Over history, people have developed strange...
Apr 20 2008
As the anniversary of its independence approaches, Israel remains haunted by conflicts of the past and is split along racial, religious, economic and ideological lines. Terrorist attacks are commonplace. But there is also pride mixed with...
Apr 20 2008
Guido Daniele creates awesome hand artwork of animals that pretty much look like the real thing. He lives in Italy and his work has been used in advertising images and commercials. Originally he was contacted by an advertising agency to create body...
Apr 19 2008
IPL has finally started. 8 star-studded teams are all set to battle it out for what is being called ‘Cricket ka Karm Yuddh’. Lots of star players, celebrities, fancy stuff and of course a whole lot of money. IPL by all means looks set to change the...
Apr 17 2008
The concept of a lost city has always astounded me, not because I don’t see how you can simply let a civilization dry up, but because I realize that in several hundred years, there will be anthropologists of that age looking at the ruins of whatever...