If Albino Caviar is on the menu, you know you’re having a meal where you should avoid picking up the bill. Also known as White Gold, the world’s priciest food weighs in at approximately $40,000 per teaspoon, ($300,000 per kilo). However, the price tag is not putting off the super rich who clearly are just […]
Continue ReadingFollowing the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force moved into the area in order to establish a buffer zone between the Greek Republic of Cyprus and the newly created Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. During that time, armed forces from all over the western world were positioned there, in an effort to […]
Continue ReadingKaindy Lake is a scenic mountain lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains. Situated close to Almaty, this is a must see sight for adventurous travellers that find themselves in Central Asia’s largest country. The lake was formed after an earthquake in 1911. The ensuing landslides created a natural dam, where over time […]
Continue ReadingHave you ever wanted the earth to swallow you up beneath your feet? Well if you happen to live in Guatemala, that wish may sometime become a reality. The capital, Guatemala City has a strange problem when it comes to sinkholes, and none have been as dramatic as the one that occurred on Sunday, May 30, […]
Continue ReadingMost of us have been there at some point of our lives, paying expensive rents to fat cat landlords that don’t give a damn. Well a German student named Leonie Muller has decided to escape the ordeal of renting an apartment and has opted for something all together different. She is living permanently on trains […]
Continue ReadingA fairy tail deserted theme park in Australia, has recently gone on to the market for sale. At the same time as its doors were opened to prospective buyers, an urban explorer and photographer known as Urbexography.com, traveled to the site to capture it’s eerie neglected form. It wasn’t always this way of course. The Fantasy Glades […]
Continue ReadingLast month a Special Forces operation in the Syrian desert saw a SAS sniper take out a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) jihadi just as he was about to brutally behead a father and 8-year-old son for being infidels. The expert marksman took the difficult headshot from 1km away. From the same range using two more bullets, […]
Continue ReadingOn March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times. She bled to death in her own home. Jeremy was under the care of the Church of Scientology at the time. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a number of years before the incident, however Elli Perkins (a senior […]
Continue ReadingTom R. Bennett was the copilot on Trans Australian Airways flight 408 on the 19th July 1960, when the world’s first midair sky-jacking took place. The aircraft, a Lockheed Electra Mk 2 (VH-TLB) was operating the last Sydney to Brisbane flight for the day. Forty three passengers and six crew were on board. The terrorist was […]
Continue ReadingSince the founding of the Church of Scientology in 1952 the organization has strongly opposed established mental health care practices and the fields of psychiatry and psychology. To this day, Scientologists abhor mainstream psychiatry and view it as a barbaric and corrupt profession. Scientology members are denied access to psychiatric care and medication, and instead are […]
Continue ReadingAt the turn of the twentieth century, Sir Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday showed heroism in the field of battle in a quintessentially English manner. The man was a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Boxer Revolution in China. Halliday was 30 years old at the time. Stationed in Peking, China, Halliday was a captain […]
Continue ReadingA British soldier who survived the Battle of Dunkirk in WW2, did so with a picture of his new bride in his pocket. After the horror of Dunkirk saw the allies having to retreat along the beaches of Belgium and northern France, brave Norman Johnson swam through the waters to the safety of a boat, […]
Continue ReadingThe Disney Mickey Mouse Gas Mask is a strange entry in the long and successful cannon of Disney themed merchandise. It all came about during WW2, a month after the Pearl Harbour attack. For the first time in the war an attack had taken place on American soil. Now the threat of a chemical attack […]
Continue ReadingThe circumstances surrounding the death of 20-year-old Kyle Brennan in 2007 warrant discussion for anyone interested in the workings of Scientology and its strange relationship with the American judiciary. Kyle died from a gunshot wound to the head on Friday, February 16, 2007. (The time of death was estimated to be 11:00 p.m.) He was […]
Continue ReadingA Chinese designer named Daizhi Zheng has created a mobile phone that uses Coca Cola instead of lithium batteries. Zheng claims he has invented a way of using sugar-based soft drinks to power cell phones. In recent tests he demonstrated that any sweet drink, even sugar-sweetened water would be sufficient enough to keep the phone running […]
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