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Even an Ancient Egyptian Mummy needs a passport!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

…AND DID YOU PACK YOUR CASE YOURSELF, SIR? The ancient Egyptian mummy of famous King Rameses the Great, or Rameses II as he is more commonly known had his own real-life passport! On the passport it listed his occupation as “King (deceased)”! In 1974, the mummy had to be flown from the Cairo Museum to [...]

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Heartburn makes hairy babies!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Researchers from John Hopkins university studying 64 pregnant women in Baltimore, found that 23 of the 28 who suffered heartburn gave birth to hirsute newborns.

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Man awake during 23 year coma – or was he?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

As widely reported this week in the Daily Mail,  abc , msn and other news media, a man in Belgium who was diagnosed with persistent vegetative state 23 years ago after a car crash, was actually consciously aware the whole time! Incredible as this may be, what might be almost as incredible if found to [...]

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Hallowe’en is 31st October, right? Well, think again…

Monday, October 26th, 2009

We all know Christmas is on 25th December, and Bonfire Night is remembered on the 5th November, and Hallowe’en is on 31st October, and….wait a minute…not everywhere it’s not!

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009

This is a grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Amazingly, eight buffalo’s in a row conforms to the rules of English grammar. The word “buffalo” in the sentence is used as a noun, a verb and an adjective (the place name Buffalo). The sentence was devised by William J. Rapaport, [...]

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