The history of the modern day calendar, and how we began the Leaping tradition. picked by MUPpetMAKer 5 months ago

Brown trout trapped in a fish farm pond have discovered an extraordinary escape route. And, like the hit prisoner of war film The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen, it involves a tunnel. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

TAMPA, Fla. - Authorities say a Labrador retriever named Jet really can fly. The 65-pound dog survived a six story leap from a Tampa airport parking garage and lived.

FLORIDA picked by bevissimo 6 months ago

Carlos Edward Tello was facing more than 20 years in prison when he jumped from a ninth-floor balcony of the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. picked by MandolinOrange 5 months ago

A woman who was walking her dog in South Boston said Monday that she was stunned to see her pet leap into the air after getting a powerful shock. picked by dollyllama 5 months ago

A man... A man...A man....That's what Neil Armstrong says he said, and now an acoustic analysis appears to prove him correct. picked by Fanatic 2 years ago

Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's… you? picked by leopoldogolba 7 months ago

"Back to the Future Meets Quantum Leap in Rock and Roll Heaven." A novel you can read online for free, download for a few bucks, or buy in paperback for a few more. I've read the first few chapters, and they're pretty good stuff.
For book jacket kind of info: picked by runninutes 2 months ago

"When people become washlet users, they become washlet evangelists," she said. "Once you make that leap, you don't want to go back." picked by muppet 11 months ago

Women now have considerably more sexual dreams if compared to the past 40 years. This can be due to the fact that women become more comfortable reporting the fact of sexual dream or due to the unknown leap in the frequency of sexual dreams. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

LONDON (Reuters) - They may not leap off the shelves into the best-seller category, but the books shortlisted for the oddest book title prize certainly grab the attention.

"I was Tortured by the Pygmy Love Queen" recounts the tale of a fictional U.S. World War Two fighter pilot who is captured by jungle pygmies led by a sadistic woman. picked by bevissimo 5 months ago

Shoes with a built-in vacuum cleaner that suck up dust as you walk. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

A new tie that looks like it's rendered in 8-bit awesomeness! A few of us monkeys at ThinkGeek had this great shared dream a few months ago. In it, the whole world was 8-Bit, just like the video games we grew up on. We found ourselves having to leap from platform to platform, to search for pieces of the Triforce of Wisdom, and to fight scary mutated plants and animals. The music was awesome (an... read full post picked by Jerry520 10 months ago

CNN reporter David Mattingly is doing a story on Asian carp invasion of the Illinois River and the rest of the Mississippi river system. The carps are unusual in that they actually leap out of the water into the boat!

Watch to the end to see the reporter get o-fish-ially ownned picked by doggylives 4 months ago

Scientists have taken a giant leap toward making possible the dream of building a powerful telescope on the moon that could withstand even the harshest of lunar conditions. picked by DrNothing 1 year ago

A daring parachute jumper sued the owners of the Empire State Building Tuesday because security guards prevented his leap from the New York structure in 2006. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

Over a hundred centuries ago in a dusty corner of Mother Africa, human evolution may have leaped instead of crawled. Do the remains of Boskop Man foreshadow the future of humanity? And if so, why aren't these ultimate humans here now, instead of us? picked by Mitzuzake 3 months ago

Scientists work on a sleek, advanced suit designed to allow superior mobility when humans eventually reach Mars or return to the moon. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

Mindi and Tom Pierce will celebrate their sixteenth wedding anniversary this year, but today they are marking their ninth and 10th birthdays, respectively. picked by muppet 5 months ago

Bong said it was safe to eat pork at unaffected sites and pig products meeting food sanitation and safety standards.
hehehe....his name is bong.... picked by indisguise 12 months ago