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Babies Jumping Festival
Grown men have been leaping over rows of babies in the north Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia in an annual rite meant to ward off the Devil.
Jumpers dressed as the Colacho, a character representing the Devil, bounded over clusters of bemused infants laid out on mattresses.
Nobody appeared to get hurt in this year's festive event. ...
Bouncing babies in India-Horrific Ritual!!!!
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Local officials in western India have come under fire from child rights experts over a 700-year-old ritual that sees infants dropped from the roof of a mosque.
Resident in the region believe the fall – which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet – will ensure good health and prosperity for their families.
Each year hundreds...
The most astonishing Subways in the world!!!!!!!!!
1-Stockholm Tunnelbana (Sweden)
`Subway stations are usually designed in a clean and modernistic style in order to make people forget they are traveling deep underground. It is different in the Stockholm subway though, in which several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. Old nature meets...
Expensive stuffs in 2010 very luxurious
by Venessa Wong
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Most Expensive Television
PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition by Stuart Hughes
Price: $2.3 million*
Swiss luxury television maker PrestigeHD asked Stuart Hughes of Goldstriker International to design a spectacular piece for the company, says Hughes. So he took a 55-inch PrestigeHD television and covered it in...
Color Parker, Future Pen for future world
Written By: admin from the most interesting fact
Color Picker is a pen that can scan any color from the objects around us and can be used instantly to draw / write. The way it works are, the first attach sensor on the object that have the color we want, then press the Scan button. RGB cartridge will work so that the color we want appears in the display...
Italy offers lessons in ice cream at Gelato University
see the ice cream univeristyItaly is world famous for its ice cream, so perhaps it is no coincidence that it claims to host the world's only ice cream university.Duncan Kennedy reports from the 'Gelato University' in Bologna, which attracts 6,000 students a ye...
Top 10 health innovations of 2009
London, England (CNN) -- No one doubts that the most high-profile health crisis of 2009 was the unexpected outbreak of H1N1 -- the swine flu virus that has claimed almost 10,000 lives, according to the World Health Organization.The worldwide pandemic was on the front page of every major news outlet for months on end as people struggled to understand the impact of the first such flu outbreak in over 40 years.Equally, the vaccine for swine flu, which came out a record five months after the first reported cases of the virulent virus in Mexico, has...
Teenage girl poised to be youngest Arab doctor
Iqbal al Assaad, a 16-year-old student from Lebanon, has received a full scholarship to attend Weill Cornell Medical College. Abu Nadha for The NationalDOHA // At two and a half years old, Iqbal al Assaad taught herself to count from one to 10 in Arabic and English. At five, she was in the second grade alongside seven-year-olds. At the age of nine...
On Goodness
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. - Ibn-Abi-Talib, ...
The world’s most inappropriate love hotel Taking a cue from Disney’s ‘Toon Town’, this Thai drive-in looks more like a fun house than a no-tell motel
A friendly dinosaur and an ape welcome visitors to the For You Inn, located down a back road outside of Bangkok “Mommy, look! Nice school!” shouted my excited two-year-old son as we drove past the brightly-colored building decorated with cute cartoon characters.Upon closer inspection, I realized this is no nursery school. This is the "For You...
Chatroulette offers random webcam titillation By John D. Sutter, CNN February 22, 2010 -- Updated 1437 GMT (2237 HKT)
(CNN) -- On Chatroulette, a new and controversial Web site, every click lands you in a face-to-face video conversation with a random stranger.The setup is simple: Activate your webcam and click "play." Then, as people from all over the world pop up one at a time in a box on your screen, you decide whether or not to chat with them. If you don't like...
Top 10 Weirdest Guinness World Records
The Guinness World Records Video Game is available now on Wii and DS from Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, so to celebrate we've picked our favourite of the craziest records ever made to put together Top 10 Weirdest Guinness World Records!One thing we love about this game is that the scores are officially all adjudicated by Guinness, so you can actually get your name into the records books! As well as this, you can also set records at a national and regional level! So you can be a record breaker from your very own front room…. a perfect...
This day in history
DiscussNelson Mandela Is Freed (1990) As a young man, Mandela was an active opponent of South Africa's apartheid regime. Initially committed to non-violent struggle, he became the leader of the armed wing of the African National Congress after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, when police opened fire on several thousand protesters. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1964, but international pressure led to his release in 1990. Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was elected his country's first black president in what year?try to answer...
Teenage girls eat less healthy food than any other group, survey reveals
Overall UK obesity levels unchanged from 10 years ago, Food Standards Agency study showsComments (9)Buzz up!Digg itRebecca Smithers, consumer affairs correspondentguardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 23.15 GMTArticle historyBritain's teenage girls' diet has been criticised by the Food Standards Agency Photograph: Getty Images/StockbyteTeenage girls...
On Ambition
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.- Lubbock, Sir J...
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