Friday, January 15, 2016
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Now it is revealed Tesco had an 'inflatable gay best friend' in its online store
Controversial: The 'inflatable gay best friend' has caused a Twitter storm
Friday, February 01, 2013
The Mystery of Curry
It turns out we’ve been eating the spiced dish for a lot longer than anyone ever imagined.
Indian chicken jalfrezi curry. The original curry predates Europeans’ presence in India by about 4,000 years.
Photograph by Joe Gough/iStockphoto/Thinkstock.
Photograph by Joe Gough/iStockphoto/Thinkstock.
When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague
More HERE!Daniel Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really.
The plague was abroad.Londoners knew not where it had come from, only that it was upon Holland. "It was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus," Daniel Defoe wrote in the opening of his historical novel, A Journal of the Plague Year.
Arrested for cross-dressing! Meet Fanny and Stella, the Victorian gentlemen charged with the 'unnatural offence' of being transvestites
- Frederick Park, 22, and Ernest Boulton, 21, arrested on 28 April 1870
- Apprehended as they were leaving Strand Theatre in London
- Charged with homosexuality and 'conspiracy'
- They were acquitted after the prosecution built a very weak case
- New book by Neil McKenna, Fanny & Stella, tells their amazing story
Saturday, June 16, 2012
With video: Two female Michigan lawmakers silenced after vagina, abortion comments
State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, left, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were scolded over their remarks related to abortion. / File photos
Freedom of speech has it limits – at least in the state House of Representatives.
State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were told today that they wouldn’t be recognized to publicly speak on any matters before the House because of comments they made Wednesday during an emotional debate on a bill that puts new restrictions on abortion providers.MORE HERE!!
Two Hundred Years of Surgery
Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of
bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's
body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly
worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become
radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced —
changes that have proved central to the development of mankind's
abilities to heal the sick. MORE HERE.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Ye olde vampire slaying kit: Victorian oak box complete with wooden stakes, garlic paste and vials of holy water up for auction
- Casket contains set of rosary beads, three glass bottles containing holy water, holy earth and garlic, and a book of common prayer dated 1857
- Macabre artefact expected to fetch up to £2,000
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They say you can never be too prepared... but even for the most superstitious person this may be overkill.
A 19th century Vampire slaying kit, which includes a wooden mallet and four oak stakes, glass vials of holy water and garlic paste is expected to fetch up £2,000 when auctioned later this month.
The macabre artefact also has a percussion cap pistol - invented in the 1830 - and a steel bullet mold, all carefully crafted to offer the best protection against any creatures of the night.
Precautions: The case contains 1) a rosary 2)
crucifix 3) a handwritten psalm (Luke 20:27) 4) a pistol 5) four oak
stakes 6) a bottle of consecrated earth 7) a common prayer book 8) a
wooden mallet 9) silver bullet mold 10) a cloth 11) two glass bottles
containing garlic paste and holy water
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155799/Vampire-slaying-kit-1890s-complete-wooden-stakes-garlic-paste-vials-holy-water-comes-auction.html#ixzz1xI6Iv8hO
Are you sure digging him up is a good idea? Archaeologists find Bulgarian 'vampires' from Middle Ages with iron rods staked through their chests
By Daniel Miller|
If you thought vampires were simply the stuff of myth and legend - and perhaps the odd teen horror film - think again.
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into the undead.
They are the latest in a succession of finds across western and central Europe which shed new light on just how seriously people took the threat of vampires and how those beliefs transformed into the modern myth.
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Find: Two skeletons, believed to be those of suspected Medieval vampires,
were discovered with iron poles plunged through their chests in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154837/Vampire-skeletons-unearthed-Bulgaria-iron-stakes-plunged-chests.html#ixzz1xI5okIZ2
Old portraits of children with creepy 'ghostmothers' in the background show how far mums would go for a good photo
By Daily Mail Reporter|
In the early days of photography, many well-off families jumped at the chance to have their precious children's likeness captured for eternity.
The one trick that they had to deal with next, after finding photographers willing to set up the bulky equipment and travelling to the portrait location, was getting the little babies to sit still for the entirety of the session.
As a result, many photographers enlisted the help of the children's mothers, with often creepy outcomes.
Tricks: Mothers covered themselves in black
cloth and hold their children upright while getting portraits taken back
in the 1800s, resulting in odd figures in the photos
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155681/Old-portraits-children-creepy-ghostmothers-background-far-mums-good-photo.html#ixzz1xI59doFG
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Friends say classmate killed self after bullying on sexuality
Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn't take any more bullying.
And they say school officials knew about the torment but didn't do enough to stop it.
Tally ho chaps! First-ever British surfer caught on film taking to waves on home-made board... in 1929
- Experts say the two-hour video footage is a 'national treasure'
- Clip shows adventurer on homemade 8ft board carved from balsa wood
Riding the waves: Some of the earliest ever video of surfing which shows Lewis Rosenberg on a surfboard at Holywell Bay in Newquay, Cornwall
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