A forthcoming book gives us a look into the private lives of our Presidents or at least as those in the Secret Service saw them. Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Reagan comes out as decent guys, even great guys. Others such as Carter are less than decent. picked by 2manyusernames 1 month ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the Universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing indirect evidence of unseen dark matter tugging on galaxies in the crowded, rough-and-tumble environment of a massive supercluster of hundreds of galaxies. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
We know all about the lives of our favorite comic book heroes but what about those who introduce us to those heroes. Here are several comic store employees who answer questions about their lives, their loves, their pet peeves and more. 1 comments edit related share artsplease excuse some of the silly typos picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago |
Sorry, Cleopatra. You probably just have a bad memory. Research pokes holes into the myth of reincarnation. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
The NYT will suppress news to help save the life or to make the ransom cheaper of one of their own, but they have a long history of needlessly endangering other people's lives. In the latest case the risk military and civilian lives by posting an article about a secret base. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
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For all the perceived closeness Americans have to their presidents, we don’t really know them, as a slew of recent revelations make clear. They are layered thick with the armor of artifice. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
The proverbial curiosity doesn't usually kill cats. The inquisitive feline has a knack of dodging death by a whisker. Cats are intrepid explorers and fearless acrobats. After all, a creature with nine lives can afford to take risks. According to Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase & Fable, a cat is said to have nine lives because it is "more tenacious of life than many animals." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share science |
A MAN who bet £100 ($240) a decade ago that he would live to be 100 is preparing to pick up his £25,000 ($60,000) winnings. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
A wild bird is little worse for wear after being hit by a car while crossing a road, then spending two days trapped behind the car's grille. Connie Ankli said she unknowingly drove around with the bird, believed to be a quail, inside her vehicle's front end. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
The European Commission has ditched its attempt to impose the metric system on Ireland and Britain, where a grocer was once convicted of selling bananas by the pound rather than by the kilo. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
One in 30 foetuses aborted for medical reasons is born alive, a 10-year study at 20 UK hospitals has found. Most of these babies with disabilities were born between 20 and 24 weeks of pregnancy and all lived for no more than a few hours. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
A pickup truck hit a boulder and tumbled over a 150-foot cliff, but the 71-year-old driver survived picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
The relentless torture of a pet cat that was shot 27 times at point-blank range in the head and neck with an air rifle has outraged animal welfare authorities. 10 comments edit related share plime.comPossum, a two-year-old male domestic cat, somehow survived shocking cruelty after cowards trapped him in a cage about 9pm on Friday. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago |
An online game recounting the adventures of Blackbeard. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A Great-grandmother from Weston has defied fate by dying 11 times in 18 months. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Crotchy has: 5 comments edit related share weird- Puffy crotch panel - Pink button anus - Long lady legs - Awesome 'Mom' tattoo picked by Bornbad 2 years ago |
A girl has been nicknamed the 'Jigsaw Kid' after she survived being born with five spleens, a hole in her heart, a diseased and back to front liver, two left lungs and her stomach on the wrong side. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Psychiatrists discover new mental illness: patients who believe their lives are on TV. picked by deEPCHIll 1 year ago 10 comments edit related share world |
After you’ve put on your pajamas, brushed your teeth, turned out the lights and gone to bed, that’s when they get down to business. picked by Bornbad 12 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
With all surviving odds against him, Peng Shulin’s body was cut in half by a large transport truck in 1995, leaving his doctors shocked and amazed by his survival. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |