On Saturday, Susan Boyle lost “Britain’s Got Talent”. On Sunday she was admitted into the Priory clinic suffering from exhaustion. All of the attention finally proved to be too much for the 48-year-old, who was new to celebrity. She rose to fame only seven weeks ago when her first audition for...
Prudential P.L.C. of Britain will buy American Internation Group's life insurance business in Asia. The agreement will cost Prudential $35.5 billion dollars. It will be the biggest repayment of the $!80 billion dollars the United States government used to bail out the failing A.I.G. The Federal...
http://www.visitashbourne.co.uk/ashbourne-royal-shrovetide-football/ There are plenty of sports out there, and plenty of weird sports at that; Aussie Rules Football for instance, or boot tossing. However, there are none in the world as bizarre, as unhinged and downright potty as the ten sports...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
The Orential Yeti was trapped by hunters in the Sichuan Province in China. Scientists are baffled by this unidentified breed of animal. Hunter Lu Chin, who found the hairless creature in a remote section of central China, described the beast to Britain's Times as "a bit like a bear but it doesn't...
As members of one of the most reviled and sinister organizations ever to rise to power, the Nazis were the architects of many evil and disturbing plans. Genocide, medical experimentation on humans, world war; you name it the Nazis did it. However, while living in a ruthlessly efficient military...
Susan Boyle became a star overnight when she appeared on Britain's Got Talent. Judges (including Simon Cowell) rolled their eyes when they first saw her step on stage, a homely looking 47 year old, but were amazed when they heard her opera style singing. She has now appeared on numerous talk shows...
Public StoningIranian courts still order public stonings, and those sentenced are often severely whipped before they are stoned. Women are buried up to their necks before a stoning. If convicted of adultery, Iranian law requires the stones not be too big or too small so that the probable death is...
Saint Patrick's Day is in full swing on Wednesday. Supporters of the long standing St. Patty's tradition are looking forward to participating in various world wide festivals, attending parades, displaying their green, dining on corned beef and cabbage, finding shamrocks, chasing leprechauns and...
Political Correctness: the Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the avoidance... of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people." Okay, we can get behind that. But what does it actually mean in reality?
