Leg to heal 29 years after it was broken! Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A man who broke his left leg in a motorbike crash 29 years ago is to undergo an amazing operation to grow back 6cm of dead bone.
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Florida woman keeps mother's dead body in house for six years Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits.
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Ancient humans left evidence from the party that ended 4,000 years ago Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have studied the residues from gourds and squash artifacts that date back to 2200 B.C. and recovered starch grains from manioc, potato, chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo.
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Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago.
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Grandmother mystifies medics by burping uncontrollably for two years Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A grandmother has been left virtually housebound for two years because she burps uncontrollably.
Jean Driscoll, 72, said she started belching two years ago and despite visits to two doctors and three hospitals, noone has been able to diagnose what it wrong with her.
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German man found after 7 years dead in bed Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.
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Four years after Katrina, man reunited with his dog Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Hurricane Katrina pulled a pair of best friends apart.
But nearly four years later, fate and a whole lot of persistence have brought a dog and his owner back together. That whole time, Jessie Pullins was desperately searching for his best friend and dog, J.J.
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Woman boards the wrong bus and gets lost for 25 years Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops!
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Baby-Killer Gets 23 Years Posted: 2 years ago by punthe
A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying.
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Dixie the cat returns home after nine years Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing.
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Pet cat catches the daily bus for four years Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Casper, which is 12 years old, boards the No3 service at 10.55am from outside his home in Plymouth, Devon, and travels the entire 11-mile route before returning home about an hour later.
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Posted: 10 months ago by Bornbad
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
– Brothers Grimm, “Snow White”
We are at a crossroads. It is the beginning of a new administration and the end of an old one. There are those who would like to forget the last eight years. It’s the magic-slate idea. As if you could lift up an acetate window and those eight years would suddenly vanish.
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Stone Age string: Unearthed, the twine that was twisted into shape 8,000 years ago Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
How old is a piece of string? In this case, 8,000 years - making it the oldest length of string ever found in Britain.
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Mauritius turns wildlife clock back 400 years Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
On a small wooded island off southern Mauritius, environmentalists are trying to turn back time to an era before humans ever set foot on the volcanic Indian Ocean archipelago.
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Pensioner drinks nothing but Coke for 40 years in promise to mother Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
A Croatian man claims he has drunk nothing but Coca-Cola for the past 40 years – because he promised his mother he would not touch alcohol.
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Horses first ridden - and milked - 5,500 years ago Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Horses were first domesticated on the plains of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500 years ago -- 1,000 years earlier than thought -- by people who rode them and drank their milk, researchers said on Thursday.
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Couple marry 50 years after getting engaged Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
A couple have married more than 50 years after getting engaged as childhood sweethearts.
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After 60 Years in an Iron Lung, Woman Loses Her Battle Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
An Australian woman who spent more than 60 years in an iron lung to treat polio has died at the age of 83. June Middleton entered the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the person who has spent the longest time in an iron lung. An American woman hs also been in an irong lung for 60 years.
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50 years for a crime that never was Posted: 2 years ago by Moe
He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive.
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300 combined years at GM Posted: 1 year ago by JoshSF49
A Family has worked a combined 300 years at General Motors. Their livelihood is now at stake.
Way to generate the emotional response to bail GM out.
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Frog Dozes in Mud for Years Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
One species of burrowing frogs can survive for years buried in mud without food and water. New research has figured out how the frog and other "super-sleeper" animals do it.
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