Cultures across the globe have celebrated the annual year's end with various social gatherings, customs and rituals. Modern New Year celebrations include parties, music, alcohol, fireworks, and kisses at the stroke of 12:00 midnight. As 2010 draws to a close, people across the globe are planning...
General Electric buys a lot of vehicles. They provide company cars to technicians and management, and GE Capital manages auto fleets for a host of other companies. It makes good sense for GE to push for the incorporation of electric vehicles (EVs)in their fleet, and the company recently announced...
Auld Lang Syne is a song traditionally in most English speaking and many other countries played on New Year's Eve. The phrase Auld Lang Syne translates in English to mean "old long since" or "long, long, ago." Auld Lang Syne is based upon a Scottish poem originally written by James Watson in...
In more repressed times, people were not always allowed to express themselves freely, for fear of persecution. Gossiping, criticizing the government or even talking about current events were often punishable by death. In order to communicate at will, clever rhymes were constructed and passed...
Pop singers Mariah Carey, Beyonce Knowles, and Usher Raymond IV have been linked to Libya's Muatassim Qaddafi, son of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi. It seems that Mariah, Beyonce, and Usher were paid large sums of money to perform for Muatassim's annual New Year's Eve parties held on Saint...
In 2009, an average of 2,276 cars were stolen per day, which is about 15% less than the number of thefts per day in 2208. Still, car thieves aren't too lazy to work on holidays, and some have remarkably high theft rates compared to average. Look at it this way: drivers nursing a hangover may...
Twilight stars and off camera couple Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart celebrated New Years on the UK's Isle of Wight. On New Year's Eve, the pair were spotted enjoying lunch and then later catching a concert with a group of people at the Spyglass Inn. Pattinson and Stewart happily posed with...
If you get sick of the irritatingly-sweet Christmas movies, you're in luck. It seems that this festive holiday somehow brings out the most twisted imaginations of our favorite filmmakers. Christmas may be mentioned in these Yule-tide favorites, but they're definitely not on Santa's good list....
On the 21st of June the world will mark the solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, shortest day in the southern hemisphere. On December 21 the situation is exactly reversed. And in between each of those dates - on March 20 and September 22 (of 2009), the sun's north-south...
On Friday, December 31, 2010, a flock of approximately 2,000 red winged blackbirds fell dead from the sky and dropped to the ground in Beebe, Arkansas. Mayor Mike Robertson reported to the Associated Press that he has enlisted 12 to 15 Environmental service workers, armed in environmental protection...
