Hōnen Matsuri(Japanese for “Harvest Festival”) is a fertility festival celebrated every year on March 15 in Japan. Hōnen means rich harvest in Japanese, while a matsuri is a festival. The Hōnen festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all manner of prosperity and fertility. The best known of these festivals takes [...]
February 13, 2010
ROME — Police in Sicily have called in an international team of forensic scientists and criminologists to help solve the case of a murdered Baroness, 447 years after the crime. The investigation in Carini — a small town near Palermo — centers on the castle where Baroness Laura Lanza was killed in 1563 with her [...]
February 6, 2010
LAS VEGAS — To some men, she might seem like the perfect woman: She’s a willowy 5 feet 7 and 120 pounds. She’ll chat with you endlessly about your interests. And she’ll have sex whenever you please — as long as her battery doesn’t run out. Meet Roxxxy, who may be the world’s most sophisticated [...]
January 24, 2010
LONDON — International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month. If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain’s London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in an all-in-one fleece sleeper suit before slipping between the sheets. [...]
January 12, 2010
After years of speculation that cell phones may harm your brain, new research suggests they may actually fight Alzheimer’s disease. Yes, you heard right. Microwave radiation from cell phones may protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, according to a new study involving genetically tweaked mice. The results were so surprising that study co-author Juan [...]
January 6, 2010
Last week, a virtual space station in the online world Entropia sold at auction for 330,000 real dollars, the largest-ever expenditure in an online game. The previous record-holders, both in Project Entropia as well, included a virtual space resort and nightclub purchased for $100,000. The currency in the futuristic Entropia universe is entirely based on [...]
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