Forty-six years ago Centralia, a small town located in east-central Pennsylvania used to be a bustling coal-mining town with over 2,500 residents. Today, it is not even listed in most maps and its population has dwindled down to 10, thanks to a fire that cannot be extinguished....
Read news articleEarlier this week, archeologists discovered a 4,300 year-old pyramid that they believe was the tomb of Queen Sesheshet, the mother of Pharaoh Teti, the founder of ancient Egypt's sixth dynasty. The pyramid was found in Saqqara, an ancient burial ground, close to Egypt's capital Cairo....
Read news articleBritish artist Ptolemy Elrington is such a staunch believer that one man's junk is another man's treasure,- that he makes a living from it. Working from his studio in Brighton, England he spends his days making beautiful sculptures from discarded car hubcaps....
Read news articleWhoever came up with the expression bird brain, had probably never met one-year old Willie, a talkative Quaker parrot, who is being credited with saving a toddler's life in Denver, Colorado....
Read news articleThere is finally some hope for Bay Area baseball fans. On Tuesday, November 11th, 2008, San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum was named the National League Cy Young Award winner, an honor bestowed to the best baseball pitcher in the National League - and this is just his first full year in the major league!...
Read news articleAs we get ready to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Veterans Day, we thought it would be interesting to investigate the origins of this holiday and the reason it is always celebrated on November 11th....
Read news articleFor the next five days, the tiny town of Pushkar in Northern India, will become the hub of festivities as thousands of pilgrims, tourists and camels gather here for the annual Camel Festival....
Read news articleThe Madagascar gang is back in the theatres - Moving it, in their new sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa are Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo and Melman, the Giraffe, who all continue from where they had left off in the first movie....
Read news articleThree-week old Pingu, an African Penguin was born with a slight disadvantage. His brother was a bit of a bully who ate all of Pingu's fish. At first, the Zookeepers at the Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon, ignored the problem, thinking the siblings would be able to sort things out....
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