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Orphaned at 8 years old, Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares spent the next five years of her life in a convent with other orphans, where she trained to become a nun.  However, she didn’t end up there.  Colmenares won Miss Venezula and now at age 22, Miss Venezuela Ivian Sarcos has become Miss World after winning […]

When it comes to animals, there’s nothing more interesting than a cross-bred hybrid animal.  Whether they are created, like the giant savannah cat, or accidents, like the zedonk, the liger, and the chupacabra, the end result is always interesting.  When Graeme Wallace bought a sheep farm in Taieri, New Zealand, he got a little more […]

Being one of the founders of Apple should have its privileges, shouldn’t it?  Well, I’m sure it does, but Steve Wozniak is still the same geek he was back in 1975 when he designed, built, and programmed the very first Apple computer.  How do I know this?  Well, there’s nothing geekier than standing in line to […]

See that horrible pink liquid in what looks like a normal Pepsi bottle?  Well, hold your nose for this story, because that’s a Pepsi that tastes like carbonated breakfast.  For once, turning something pink isn’t a breast cancer awareness thing; Pepsi Japan’s Pepsi Pink is actually a carbonated strawberry milk flavored take on Pepsi.  Seriously, […]

Ten years after the hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and forever altered the course of history, tributes and memorials have been created to honor the victims and the firemen, policemen and EMTs who worked so diligently in the disturbing aftermath. In addition to the humans searching initially for survivors and then […]

When 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher went out to do some gardening, he had no idea what fate would befall him.  The man from Green Valley, Arizona, ambled on out to the garden with his pruning shears, and got to business.  Unfortunately, he dropped the shears.  As Luetscher bent over to pick up his pruning equipment, he […]

Yesterday, the Virginia area was rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake the likes of which haven’t been felt on the Eastern seaboard in… well, ever.  That’s right, it’s one of the strongest earthquakes to his Virginia, it was felt all throughout the East Coast, and has become a huge joke to Californians.  Not to be left out, […]

When it comes to higher-level mathematics, things get pretty difficult.  I’m not a mathematician, and that’s with good reason because I abhor math and its various proofs and theorems and whatnot.  In fact, I’m not even sure I understand what a theorem is, but I do know what Fermat’s Last Theorem is.  In 1637, a […]

When the Cardiff Botanical Gardens installed the statue known as “Magic Carpet Ride” along Highway 101 in Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, way back in 2007, they didn’t know what they were getting into.  Over the years, the statue has been a frequent target for amusement-minded vandals, who last year had the Cardiff Kook attacked by a giant […]

There is nothing like looking at vintage photographs to remind us of where we came from and our history. In 1918, Chicago photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas gathered 18,000 U.S. soldiers to create the image of Lady Liberty above. Patriotism was running high with the nation entering World War in 1917. Apparently […]

Elvis is everywhere, according to Mojo Nixon. He’s in a Dutch version of his Graceland home and even has run for the governor’s office in Arkansas. And now one of the few remaining mysteries surrounding the King of Rock N Roll has been solved. The question of who was the vivacious woman touching tongues with […]

The Bible says that the Lord works in mysterious ways.  If you believe a South Carolina couple, Jacob Simmons and Gentry Lee Sutherland, then Jesus appeared in an image on their Walmart cash register receipt.  Just like at Easter, Jesus appeared on the receipt three days after the food and whatnot was purchased from the […]

In 1879, William Henry McCarty Jr., AKA Henry Antrim, AKA William H. Bonney, AKA the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, stood with his guns at his side in a portrait studio in New Mexico and got his only known photograph made.  Little did Billy know that tintype (an early photography method that leaves an image […]

There are some days that just seem to last forever, and then there’s the summer solstice.  While it doesn’t last forever, the summer solstice is the longest day of the year, as this is the closest the earth will be to the sun all year.  The summer solstice is today, June 21, and Google has […]

Little-known fact time:  the Dramatic Chipmunk, one of the most popular animals on the Internet, isn’t actually a chipmunk.  Dramatic Chipmunk is actually a dramatic prairie dog.  Perhaps the drama of the prairie dog is rubbing off on the other prairie dogs, as photographer Rob Palmer captured a great image of a worried-looking prairie dog […]