Oldest man on the planet has died in the U.S. state of Montana on Thursday. Walter Bruening, who since last one month was under the supervision of a hospital, was 114 years old. According to Stacia Kirby, spokeswoman from the Rainbow Senior Living retirement home Breuning died of natural causes at a Great Falls hospital. [...]
Thirty-nine year old Tammy Ann Roseman from Melbourne became the fourth woman to be charged with mooning or flashing a school bus in Florida on Tuesday afternoon. Roseman continued Florida’s new mooning trend when she was arrested for disorderly conduct and taken to the Indian River County jail after a school bus driver transporting [...]
Walter Breuning, the world’s oldest man until his passing, died on Thursday at a hospital in Great Falls, Montana because of natural causes at the age of 114. The man who has experienced to live in three centuries has left lessons, however, before he passed. In an interview with Breuning conducted October of last year [...]
Torsten Schmidt, a scientist at the Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany), has created the world’s smallest wedding rings. The product is less than a thousandth of the thickness of human hair. Schmidt used looped strands of DNA to make the interlocked rings, known as catenans (chains), which are 18 nanometers wide. The reasons attributed to giving [...]
Richard Branson, the British billionaire who owns the Virgin group of companies, will be spending a day as a stewardess because he lost a bet with a fellow businessman. In a statement, AirAsia X said that Branson will “don AirAsia’s famous red female flight attendant uniform and strut down the aisle to offer coffee, tea [...]
A newscaster reporting the unusual story about a deer who took it upon itself to become the protector of a goose and her nest in Buffalo New York, explained “when a geese mates, they mate for life, but when they loose that mate, it presents a problem, because the male is the one who defends [...]
Remnants from the Soviet era spacecraft Vostok 3KA-2 that was sent into earth orbit in 1961 with dog Zvezdochka and mannequin by the name of Ivan Ivanovich on-board is going under hammer at Sotheby’s. Just three weeks after this flight another spaceship “Vostok-1” carried Yuri Gagarin to the space. The auction, which is dedicated to 50th anniversary of [...]
Xie Yong won the award for “Coldest Beauty” at the naked ski party held at the Tianchi International Ski Resort in Urumqi, Xinjiang, in the western province of China. Yong, one of hundreds of brave participants at the annual fancy dress (and undress) skiing party, wore only a snowflake for her costume. Zhang Romin, [...]
Millions of arachnids made trees their homes in Pakistan following the devastating floods there in late July 2010, creating a cocoon of white grey web wrapped around the branches. The spiders were forced into the trees in Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkwa during the flooding after the heavy monsoon rains The spiders made their [...]
Thousand of tourists visit Salem, Massachusetts every year because of its history of convicting and executing women for witchcraft during the 1600’s, but some find distasteful that a local elementary has the word witchcraft in its name, and officials are proposing that it be changed. Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, located in the Witchcraft Heights [...]
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