A 19-year-old suburban Detroit resident is on track to graduate from The University of Michigan after just a year of study. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The Chinese New Year traditionally begins the first day of the lunar month. The Lunar New Year is named after an animal from the Chinese Zodiac and is considered a major holiday for Chinese communities. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

How weird a year was it?
Here's how weird. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

Some people measure years in music or photos, but we like to measure the year in the little blips on the radar that are 15-minute celebrities.
*how about Edward Smith*
Briefly famous for: Admitting to having sex with over 1000 cars.
<---or Joe the plumber picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

Details of 2,000 suspects wanted by Dutch Police languished unchecked within the Crown Prosecution Service for a year. Eleven of the people listed have since gone on to commit crimes within Britain, including serious assault. picked by Pocksucket 2 years ago

"All the beer consumed in the US each year could fill one out of every 25 residential in-ground pools in the US"
and other fancy facts. picked by suckersklub 1 year ago

Call it the year of the remake if you will. Seems that's what Hollywood's betting on to surpass 2008's record-breaking box office fever ignited by Indy, Bond, Iron Man and Batman. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

In a year in which roughly 17,000 leading presidential contenders, plus of course Dennis Kucinich, held roughly 63,000 debates, during which they spewed out roughly 153 trillion words; and yet the only truly memorable phrase emitted in any political context was ``Don't tase me, Bro!'' you know there will be a lot of humor to find. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

An Austrian woman lived with the mummified remains of her aunt for a year after she died at age 96. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Women who use make-up on a daily basis are absorbing almost 5lb of chemicals a year into their bodies picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

The rather new trend of people writing about doing something for a year.

Why do people want to write about "Not having sex for a year", or "Having sex with my husband every day for a year"? picked by Ankabout 3 months ago

Successful New Year trip makes a holiday really happy. To the contrary, spoilt vacations can not only sadden holiday memories, but also cloud the whole future year. So you need to foresee everything. picked by femina 3 years ago

Interestingly enough, so are a good majority of the Seventy Year Old Men in this country. picked by muppetmaker 1 year ago

Jon pokes fun at Time's 'Person of the Year' award. picked by Boomshank 3 years ago

A 12 year old girl wrote on MySpace about how her father and stepmother gave her cocaine.

The police found this rather interesting and decided to chat with them about it. picked by Boomshank 3 years ago

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered a rare 2,700-year-old piece of fabric inside a copper urn from a burial they speculated imitated the elaborate cremation of soldiers described in Homer's "Iliad." picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Chinese students are giving pornographic cards as gifts for the upcoming Lunar New Year's Day ...and each one has a small paper fortune enclosed. picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a 2500-year-old tomb in eastern China containing 40 coffins that could provide rare clues to life in the region at the time. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A woman from Rocklands, Norfolk Island, says she is still using a 50-year-old refrigerator, passed down from her parents. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

A 13 year old girl named Ashley Morgan posed as a record executive on MySpace and lured several bands to Los Angeles with the promise of a record contract. Morgan had developed a ‘sonymusicexec‘ MySpace profile to lure bands to her home. picked by alphaguy1984 3 years ago