Erma Bombeck Quote – Seize The Moment
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
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Chris Rock Quote – Married or Single
“You can either be married and bored or single and lonely.” – Chris Rock
Read moreGeorge Carlin Quote – Some Schmuck Will Buy It From You
“If you nail two things together that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you.” – George Carlin
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Russian Spy Whale
A beluga whale has decided that it doesn’t want to leave a Norwegian port. It has decided that humans are something to play with. Russian Spy Whale On the harness there was an inscription – Property of St. Petersburg. A Russian spy whale? Since beluga don’t usually like being around humans it was very strange to spot this one outside […]
Read moreGeorge Eliot Quote – God’s Mercy
“We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.” – George Eliot
Read moreRestaurants serving horse meat in European Union. Supermarkets too!!
Horsemeat is passing for ground beef in supermarkets all over Europe, said Hugh Camegy in the Financial Times. Claims have also been made that there are restaurants serving horse meat. It has been found in Findus’s frozen lasagna, Tesco’s frozen hamburgers, and even Burger King’s Whoppers in the U.K., France, Sweden, and beyond. The horsemeat makes its way to dinner […]
Read moreCARBON FOUND IN PEAT SWAMP IN CONGO BASIN
In the center of Africa’s Congo Basin, they have found about 30 billion metric tons of carbon that is equal to 20 years of US fossil fuel emissions. While using satellite imagery scientists have found 56,000 square feet of highly acidic swamp with depths of 20 feet. This area is the largest peatland found in the Tropics. Being highly acidic […]
Read moreOscar Wilde Quote – Man Makes His End For Himself
“Man makes his end for himself out of himself; no end is imposed by external considerations.” – Oscar Wilde
Read moreThe Man Who Removed His Own Appendix
Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov was a Soviet general practitioner who took part in the sixth Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1960–1961. He was the only doctor stationed at the Novolazarevskaya Station and, while there, developed appendicitis, which meant he had to perform an appendectomy on himself, a famous case of self-surgery. Leonid Rogozov was born in Dauriya Station, Chita Oblast, a remote […]
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