A boy with Mowgli syndrome was found in Volgograd, Russia. He spend his childhood in a room full of birds. He doesn't know how to speak but rather chirps as a bird does.
A boy lived with his mother in a 2-room apartment full of cages with feed and droppings. She had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. A woman neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds’ language.
"When you start talking to him, he chirps", - says Galina Volskaya, a social worker of Kirovskiy region, Volgograd. A boy doesn’t understand human language at all. He just chirps and when realizing that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.
The boy’s mother signed an abdication from a child. A boy now lives in the asylum, but soon will be transferred to the center of psychological care. The child has a so called “Mowgli syndrome”, which in the past years has become widely spread. for example, during the last 2 months 5 children with the same symptoms were found.
Billy, a boxer dog breed, adopts an abandoned baby goat named Lilly. This two inseparable animals live in Pennywell Farm wildlife centre at Buckfastleigh, near Totnes, Devon.
The kid was abandoned by her mother when she was only a few hours old and adopted by paternal Billy when his owner Elizabeth Tozer began hand rearing the goat. The unusual bond has developed over the last month and the pair are now inseparable. Elizabeth said: "Lilly follows Billy around which is really quite amusing to watch and Billy sleeps with the goat and cleans her mouth after she feeds."
Named by its discoverers as the "The Monster", Pliosaur is the fiercest sea monster that terrorized the prehistoric oceans 150 million years ago.
The 50-foot animal was one of the biggest marine predators to have ever swum and would have been able to take on "anything that moved" in the water. It was built for speed and power, and with its armory of fangs would have been rivaled in ferocity only by an extinct shark, the megalodon, which lived about 16 million years ago. Fossilized remains of the pliosaur, which had 10-foot-long jaws, were located on the island of Spitsbergen in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, inside the Arctic Circle.
Painter Moisei Feigin, was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest artist. He turned 103 in 2007 and is the last of living members of the artistic group "Jack Diamonds" founded in 1912. He was born in Russia in October 23, 1904.
Russian artist Moisey Feigin received a certificate that verifies his record and also gives him the right to use Guinness Book logo for commercial purposes. "Our database, containing 40 thousand records, has one record about Moisey Feigin. "The oldest working professional artist Moisey Feigin was born in October 23, 1904 in Russia. Feigin’s last exhibition took place in Central House of an Artist from April 27 to May 10, 2007. At that time the artist was 102 years 199 days old", - said Guinness Book representative Beatrice Fernandez.
Ashleigh Morris, a teenage girl from Melbourne, Australia is allergic to water of any temperature that even her own sweat gives her painful rashes. Now 19-year-old, her condition, a skin disorder known as Aquagenic Urticaria, began when she was 14 after taking high dose of penicillin to treat her tonsillitis.
She suffers from an extremely rare skin disorder called Aquagenic Urticaria - so unusual that only a handful of cases are documented worldwide. When Ashleigh gets wet her body explodes in sore, itchy red lumps that take about two hours to ease. She has to wash. But showering is a painful experience and she can only do it for a minute at a time.
Charlie bit my finger again - this is a funny video of two small brothers , Harry and Charlie. It has reached 8.5 million views as of this writing (and counting) in YouTube and there has been several versions copied from this original one. Link
Snakehead fish, a carnivorous fish tagged as the world’s most evil fish because it eats almost everything in it's path, is now is Britain. It was originally can be found only in Southeast Asia.
News that a 2ft specimen had been hooked in an English river caused widespread panic among anglers and conservationists. An Environment Agency source said last night: "The reaction was, ‘Oh s***’. This is the ultimate invasive species — if it starts breeding here it’s a disaster." Angler Andy Alder caught the snakehead while using a sprat as bait for pike on the River Witham near North Hykeham, Lincs. Andy, of Lincoln, said: "It had a gob full of razor-sharp teeth. To be honest it looked terrifying."
Located in Deshnoke, Rajasthan, India, Karni Mata temple is a 600-year-old Hindu temple.
Karni Mata is believed to be the incarnation of Hindu goddess Durga. The peculiarity of this temple is that thousands of rats are worshipped here. The temple in its present form was completed in the early 20th century in late Mughal style by Maharaja Ganga Singh.
This temple is dedicated to Karni Mata. There is a legend that she prophesied the victory of Rao Bika. The rats are seen as holy, owing to the belief that the souls of the followers of Karni Mata are in these rats and thus they must be looked after. The huge silver gates to the temple, and the marble carvings were a donation of Maharaja Ganga Singh.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault, a.k.a. The "Doomsday" Vault, is an underground tunnel that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops around the world. The vault is built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole. The vault aims to safeguard the world's agriculture from future catastrophes, such as nuclear war, asteroid strikes and climate change. Construction begins in March, and the seed bank is scheduled to open in 2008.
Craig O'Connor, an American furniture maker claims to have discovered an image of Jesus Christ inside a pine tree trunk he had cut down for a friend.
"People have said that it is art made by God and I have to agree with them," the Roman Catholic churchgoer said. Growth rings around the figure's head create a halo-like effect, he adds. He initially offered it for sale on the eBay auction website, where it attracted a top bid of $500, but he has now decided to keep the log and make it the centre piece of a new item of furniture he is building.
Tsingtao is the most popular beer in China. And on the streets Qingdao, the city where it's brewed, you can also buy it in bags. They pour the amount of beer you ask for from a keg and you get a small straw to drink it.
Situated in Brazil in South America, the Pantanal is the world’s largest area of wetlands covering to a total of 75,000 sq miles.
The region, whose name derives from the Portuguese word "pântano" (meaning "swamp" or "marsh"), is situated in South America, mostly within the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. There are also small portions in Bolivia and Paraguay. In total, the Pantanal covers about 195,000 square kilometers (75,000 sq mi). The Pantanal floods during the wet season, submerging over 80% of the area, and nurturing the world's richest collection of aquatic plants. It is thought to be the world’s most dense flora and fauna ecosystem. It is often overshadowed by the Amazon Rainforest, partly because of its proximity, but is just as vital and interesting a part of the neotropic.
This amazing invisible photograph is just one of many works of Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, who is able to make her subjects blend perfectly with its background - creating an illusion of invisibility.
"People always react strongly when they see my work," she said. "They have mixed reactions: confusion, surprise and interest." She added: "Mostly people like the idea of wearing garments that make them invisible.
It takes hours for her to paint the suits. First she takes photographs of the scene then, back in the studio, she meticulously transfers the detail on to the cotton suit with acrylic paints."
The World's Longest Lasting Light Bulb is the Centennial Light. It is a four-watt, hand-blown, carbon-filament, common light bulb manufactured in Shelby, Ohio, by the Shelby Electric Company in the late 1890s.
The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb. It is at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department. The fire department claims that the bulb is at least 106 years old and has been turned off only a handful of times. Due to its longevity, the bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not! and General Electric.
A Rare American coins collection of Burbank resident Walter J. Husak was sold in an auction that nets to $10.7 million.
The collection of 301 cents featured some of the rarest and earliest examples of the American penny, including a cent that was minted for two weeks in 1793 but was abandoned because Congress thought Lady Liberty looked frightened.
That coin and a 1794 cent with tiny stars added to prevent counterfeiters each raised $632,500, according to the Dallas-based auction house Heritage Auction Galleries, which held the sale in Long Beach on Friday night.
A diamond encrusted model car at US$140K is made by toy makers Hot Wheels to commemorate the production of its four-billionth vehicle.
Valued at US$140,000 (£71,187) - a figure that would normally buy six family cars - the model is cast in 18-karat white gold and covered in blue, white and black diamonds. It has rubies set into its tail lights and even the car's case comes with 40 white diamonds.
Designed by celebrity jeweller Jason of Beverly Hills, it is the most most expensive model in the company's history.
The extinct Beelzebufo Ampinga, or "Devil Frog" is consider by scientist the world's largest frog that ever lived. It lived in Madagascar 65 to 70 million years ago and can grew to 16 inches in length and weighed about 10 pounds.
These largely terrestrial frogs may have been as ill-tempered and aggressive as their living relatives, the ceratophyrines of South America, scientists say. Ceratophyrines are nasty sit-and-wait predators that are eager to snap at just about anything that happens by, experts note. The ancient devil frogs may have snatched lizards, small vertebrates, and possibly even hatchling dinosaurs with their huge mouths and powerful jaws.
This photo is a Pulitzer Prize winner taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine. The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
This Diamond-studded wedding Cake is the world's most expensive bridal cake at $20 million.
The sweet treat is worth $20 million and is being called the world's most expensive wedding cake. But, the bridal show's organizer said it won't be eaten. The cake is protected by a team of uniformed security guards at all times. A cake designer and jeweler teamed up to create the masterpiece.
Grey's Anatomy is the most expensive show for advertisers. Just a 30-second commercial slot will cost an advertiser $419,000 US dollars.
"Grey's Anatomy" holds the crown this fall as the most expensive show on network TV, trouncing last year's leader, "Desperate Housewives."
The network that carries them both, Walt Disney's ABC, is the most expensive for advertisers in the first half of the 2007-2008 broadcast-network TV season, thanks to three of its shows in the top 10.
Christopher Wall is the world's longest living person with heart outside his body. He was born in 1975 and now living in Philadelphia. His rare condition is called ectopia cordis.
The Green Anaconda is the world's largest snake. It's adult size can grow to 18 feet in length and can weigh up to 250 kilogram.
The Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) is an anaconda. It is the largest member of the boa family of snakes and the most heavy bodied member of the super-order Squamata. It is among the largest snakes in the world, with recorded (but unverified) measurements of 11 m (33.5 feet), though average size is closer to 18 feet. This snake can get as long as 29 feet. It rivals the Reticulated Python for length, but is typically considerably heavier. It can weigh 250 kg (550 lb) and have a girth of more than 30 cm (11.8 inches) in diameter.
A total lunar eclipse will be experience over the United States on the evening of 20th of February 2008 at 10 pm EST. This eclipse last for about an hour.
On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010.
Transiting the shadow's core takes about an hour. The first hints of red appear around 10 pm EST (7 pm PST), heralding a profusion of coppery hues that roll across the Moon's surface enveloping every crater, mountain and moon rock, only to fade away again after 11 pm EST (8 pm PST). No special filter or telescope is required to see this spectacular event. It is a bright and leisurely display visible from cities and countryside alike.
At $125k, this bouquet made of 90 gemstones, 9 diamonds, and 1 star-shaped ruby is currently the world’s most expensive flower wedding bouquet.
This Vietnamese creation is made of 90 gemstones, 9 diamonds, and 1 star-shaped ruby. The glittering bouquet has made its way into the Vietnamese Guinness Book of Records for the most expensive collection of gemstones and flowers. How much you ask? It comes in at $125,000 USD. Okay, so its not $20 million dollars like the wedding cake, but it sure is a lot prettier. The bouquet is displayed on the 6th floor of the Ruby Plaza, one of Viet Nam’s largest trade centers.
Designed by Swiss designer Rinspeed Inc., sQuba is a James Bond-inspired underwater car. It can reach at 77 mph on the road, 3 mph surface of the water, and 1.8 mph underwater.
The concept car -- which unlike Bond's is not armed -- was developed by Swiss designer Rinspeed Inc. and is set to make a splash at the Geneva Auto Show next month.
Company CEO Frank Rinderknecht, a self-professed Bond fan, said he has been waiting 30 years to recreate the car he saw Roger Moore use to drive off of a dock.
The sQuba can plow through the water at a depth of 30 feet and has electrical motors to turn the underwater screw.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the world's longest bridge in terms of total length. It crosses Lake Pontchartrain from Metairie, Louisiana to Mandeville, Louisiana.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, or the Causeway, consists of two parallel bridges that are the longest bridges in the world by total length. These parallel bridges cross Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana. The longer of the two bridges is 23.87 miles (38.42 km) long. The bridges are supported by over 9,000 concrete pilings. The two bridges feature bascule spans over the navigation channel 8 miles (13 km) south of the north shore. The southern terminus of the Causeway is in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. The northern terminus is at Mandeville, Louisiana.
A Gold Coins Gown made with 325 Austrian gold coins was showcased in Tokyo, Japan last Feb. 14, 2008. It weighed 8 kg and valued at around $275,000
Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewellery K.K. has created a dress using 325 Austrian gold coins issued to commemorate the Vienna Philharmonic, which it will display for a week at its store in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district.
The open-necked, mermaid-line gown, trimmed with fur and sporting one huge gold puff sleeve, was designed by students at Tokyo's Bunka Fashion College, the alma mater of several leading Japanese designers including Kenzo Takada.
In 1993, the Southern Region of Australia experienced the world's worst mouse plague which cost $70 million dollars of lost crops, livestocks and properties. The plague lasted 6 months and ended in just a matter of days after the government put poison in the affected region.
According to the Guinness World Records, Elaine Davidson is the "Most Pierced Woman" with 720 piercings when she was officially examined by Guinness World Record in May 2000 and 3,920 as of 2005 as reported by the Guardian.
Update: As of May 2008, Elaine piercings totals to 5,920.
When examined by a Guinness World Record official in May 2000, Davidson had 462 piercings with 192 in her face alone; by August 2001 when she was re-examined she was found to have 720 piercings. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, the Guardian reported that she now had 3,920 body piercings. The total weight of her piercings is estimated to be about 3 kilograms.
At £560 thousand, the Cruise.co.uk is now the world's most expensive .co.uk domain.
British "cruise community" website Cruise.co.uk has set a record price for a .co.uk domain, paying £560k to secure Cruises.co.uk from German travel outfit Nees Reisen.
The previous most-expensive British domain was Recycle.co.uk, bought in October 2007, by ASAP Ventures for £150,000.
Located in one of the busiest streets in Portland, Oregon, USA, Mill Ends Park is the world's smallest city park measuring only 452 square inches.
The Guinness Book of Records granted it the title of "world's smallest park" in 1971. After Mill Ends officially became a city park on St. Patrick’s Day in 1976, the park continued to be the site of St. Patrick's Day festivities. Over the years, contributions have been made to the park, such as the small swimming pool and diving board for butterflies, many statues, a miniature Ferris wheel (which was brought in by a normal-sized crane), and the occasional flying saucer. The events held here include concerts by Clan Macleay Pipe Band, picnics, and rose plantings by the Junior Rose Festival Court.
At 200.8 Meters long this wedding dress/gown is the world's longest. It is a the Chinese couple's way to celebrate the 2008 Olympics in China.
No, it’s not a joke! In the Chinese city of Guangzhou, a soon-to-be bride’s fiancé hired a local dressmaker to design and create the unique gown. The couple wanted to do something memorable and to celebrate the 2008 Olympics in China. Their nuptials are set for Monday, October 15th. The gown will be auctioned off after the ceremony with the proceeds going to charity.
Here's five facts you may never knew about Barack Obama, America's possible next president.
1. Obama lived in Indonesia for nearly five years as a child and had a pet ape named Tata. He also sampled exotic foods - dog, snake and grasshopper.
2. In his book ‘Dreams from My Father’ Barack Obama wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind".
3. Applying the proceeds of a $2 million book deal Barack Obama moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to their current $1.6-million house in neighboring Kenwood. The house purchase and subsequent acquisition of an adjoining strip of land drew media scrutiny in November 2006 because of financial links with controversial Illinois businessman Antoin Rezko.
4. Obama’s wife, Michelle, used her leverage when the couple was discussing whether he should run for president. She would agree only if Obama agreed to give up smoking. So far, he hasn't been spotted relapsing.
5. Asked to name a "hidden talent," Obama answered: "I'm a pretty good poker player."
At 165 metres high, the Singapore Flyer is the world's largest ferris wheel. Bigger than the 160-metre Star of Nanchang in Jiangxi, China and the 135-metre London Eye.
The world's largest ferris wheel, the Singapore Flyer, made its first spin on Monday, offering passengers a bird's eye view of the city-state as well as parts of neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.
The Singapore Flyer, built at a cost of S$240 million ($170 million), has 28 bus-sized capsules attached to a circular frame 150 meters (492 feet) in diameter. It can accommodate 28 people in each capsule and each ride will cost around S$30 a head and last 30 minutes.
An electromagnetic railgun (EMRG) considered the world's most powerful with force up to 10 Megajoules was successfully tested by the U.S. Navy.
The Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic rail gun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren.
ONR's Electromagnetic Rail Gun (EMRG) program is part of the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology investments, focused on developing new technologies to support Navy and Marine Corps war fighting needs.
At 33 inches tall and weighing 9.25kg, Aditya 'Romeo' Dev of Phagwara, India, is considered the world's smallest bodybuilder.
Dev, 19, who is excellent, stands just 33 inches tall - but weighs an impressive 9.25kg (just under 1.5 stone), and has a chest measurement of 20 inches.
'Romeo' trains at the Leo Health Club in Phagwara, India, where his trainer is club owner Ranjit Pal (also known as 'Mr Punjab'). Pal is reputed to be the fastest skipper in India, which is a fairly brilliant claim in itself.
African Bush Elephant is the world's largest living land dwelling animal. The adult of the species normally reach 6 to 7.3 meters in length and 3 to 3.5 meters in height and weighing between 7,000 and 10,000 kg.
The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the larger of the two species of African elephants. Both it and the African Forest Elephant have usually been classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant. Some authorities still consider the presently available evidence insufficient for splitting the African Elephant into two species. It is also known as the Bush Elephant or Savanna Elephant.
The top ten US TV programs of 2007, American Idol hits the top two spots. The number represents the percentage (ratings) of homes watching the TV program in the U.S.
1. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox - 17.3% 2. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox - 16.8% 3. Dancing w/ The Stars, ABC - 13.2% 4. Dancing w/ The Stars Result, ABC - 12.2% 5. NBC Sunday Night Football, NBC - 10.2% 6. CSI, CBS - 10.1% 7. Grey's Anatomy, ABC - 9.2% 8. Samantha Who?, ABC - 9.2% 9. House, Fox - 9.0% 10. CSI: Miami, CBS - 8.9%
Here's five facts you may never knew about Hillary Clinton, America's possible next president.
1. In 1969, after Hillary Diane Rodham graduated with departmental honors in political science, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a fish processing cannery in Valdez (which fired her and shut down overnight when she complained about unhealthy conditions).
2. It took Bill Clinton 4 years to make Hilary become his wife. They started dating in 1971. Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton were married on October 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their living room
3. Bill Clinton returned to the Governor's office in1982. Only then Hillary Diane Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton, or sometimes "Mrs. Bill Clinton", in order to have greater appeal to voters.
4. From 1986 to 1992 Hillary Clinton was enjoying six-year tenure as a director of Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest company.Fellow board members and company executives say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program.
5. Hillary Clinton became involved into a scandal about having a lesbian affair with her personal aide Huma Abedin. A new book by Edward Klein, ‘The Truth About Hillary’ is said to make some claims about Hillary Clinton having lesbian relationships.
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