MONROE,, OHIO — Charred remnants remained this morning, June 15, of the large Jesus statue iconic to Interstate 75 that was destroyed following an apparent lightning strike during a thunderstorm late Monday night. The Lawrence Bishop Music Theater at Solid Rock Church on Union Road endured smoke damage, according to officials. Damages to the King [...]
June 23, 2010
With divorce on the rise in Japan, some couples are choosing to celebrate the end of an unhappy marriage by saying “I do” for a final time at a divorce ceremony before friends and family. Divorce ceremonies were pioneered about a year ago by a former salesman, Hiroki Terai, who set up a “divorce mansion” in [...]
June 2, 2010
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages. The kookaburra got into trouble with her weight when residents at a Sydney park began feeding her sausages at barbecues. The porky kookaburra weighed in at 565 grams (1.2 pounds), nearly 40 [...]
May 7, 2010
Call it the “Twilight” effect: Names from Stephenie Meyer’s series of vampire novels and their hit film spin-offs sank their teeth into the list of most popular baby names this year, with Jacob and Isabella (the long form of Bella, Meyer’s heroine) topping the respective lists for boys and girls, and Cullen rising faster than [...]
March 31, 2010
Remember the last time you saw a photo of an exotic place or building and wondered where it was was taken? Well, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have devised the first computerized method to help answer your question -a feat made possible by searching millions of GPS-tagged images in the Flickr online photo collection. The algorithm, [...]
March 14, 2010
There has been quite a stir this past week in the blogosphere, as Chef Daniel Angerer, a NYC chef that once beat Bobby Flay on Iron Chef (no easy feat), announced that he was serving the customers in his restaurant, Klee cheese made from his wife’s breast milk. While I have nursed two babies, and [...]
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