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Woman Gives Birth to own Grandchildren
2007-10-01 11:28:00
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said.Claudia Michelle, left, looks at her twins Victor Gabriel and Antonio Bento, as her mother Rosinete Palmeira Serrao rests in a bed at the Santa Joana hospital in Recife, Brazil, Thursday, September 27, 2007.Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, a government health worker, gave birth to twin boys by Caesarean section on Thursday at the Santa Joana Hospital in the city of Recife, the hospital said in a statement on its website.Hospital officials were not available for comment on Sunday, but press reports said the grandmother and twins were discharged on Saturday in excellent health. The Caesarean section was performed about two weeks ahead of time because Serrao was having trouble sleeping, the statement said.Serrao decided to serve as a surrogate mother after four years of failed attempts at pregnancy by her 27-year-old daughter, Cla...
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Age No Barrier for Man 24 and Woman 82
2007-09-30 13:55:00
Reinaldo Waveqche (L), aged 24, kisses his new wife Adelfa Marta Volpes, aged 82, after they got married in the city of Santa Fe, 490 km (305 miles) north of Buenos Aires, September 28, 2007. The couple, who had been living together since he was 15, will spend their honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.A 24-YEAR-OLD man who married an 82-year-old woman in Argentina on Friday insists it is a union based on "great love" rather than money.Reinaldo Waveqche, who has lived with his elderly lover, Adelfa Volpes, since the age of 15, said he preferred "mature women".Ms Volpes, a retiree who is single and has no children, said their age difference had never mattered to either of them."I am very pleased," she said."Reinaldo is marvellous: very good, kind and educated. The age difference has never been important for us."Surrounded by family, friends and media, the couple made their vows in a civil ceremony because the octogenarian said she would feel "ridiculous" in a church wedding.Mr Waveqch...
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Aussie penis painter's
2007-09-29 13:23:00
VISITORS to the opening day of Sexpo in South Africa today were treated to live demonstrations by Australian artist Tim Patch, alias "Pricasso," of his penis paintings of famous global figures.Neither US President George W Bush, former British prime minister Tony Blair nor former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi were spared the rod as a naked but for a top hat Patch hammered out a series of surprisingly realistic depictions.Lengthy queues had formed outside the Gallagher Estate in Midrand outside Johannesburg by mid-morning on the first day of the first sex-themed fair in a country with a puritanical past under apartheid.The organisers of Sexpo Johannesburg have said they hope to attract 30,000 visitors to the four-day show that originated in Australia, which features a mix of workshops, exhibition stands and live performances.Patch has painted portraits of some of the worlds most famous people including George Bush and Queen of England.
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World Shortest Couple Wedding in China
2007-09-28 20:43:00
Li Tangyong and Chen Guilan in wedding dress posing for their wedding photo in Shunde in southern China 's Guangdong Province on Thursday, September 27, 2007.The shortest couple, with the bridegroom standing at 1.1 meters and the bride at 0.7 meters, will tie the knot during the upcoming National Day holiday. They are also challenging the "shortest couple to get married" in Guinness World Records, New Express reported on Friday.Soon after the pre-marriage health check for the bridegroom Li Tangyong and bride Chen Guilan, they applied in the Guinness World Records' Guangdong office.Li and Chen will get married in a group wedding ceremony with 30 other couples. The couple told New Express that they hoped to have the records certificate on the day of their wedding.
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Miniature Shoes Half an Inch1.3 cm long Guinness World Records
2007-09-28 14:57:00
Ram Kumar, 36, a cobbler, works at a shoe factory in Jammu September 2007. Kumar, who works at a shoe factory in the northern town of Jammu, spends his weekends making miniature shoes, half-an-inch (1.3 cm) long, in an attempt to get into the Guinness World Book of Records or the Indian equivalent
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World?s Largest 76 Foot, 21,000 Pound Pencil
2007-09-28 14:40:00
Well, we did it and we had a blast! A bunch of guys from about 15 countries spent 2 weeks building the world?s largest pencil. It wasn?t easy. We had to make the pencil to scale, it had to look precisely like a normal pencil and it had to be made out of exactly the same materials. We used over 8,000 board feet of wood, 4,500 pounds of 10-inch graphite, which ran the length of the 76-foot pencil, and we even manufactured a 250-pound eraser. It took our two main carpenters a full day to sharpen the point of the pencil using a Sawzall, axes, and a grinding machine!The pencil was designed to commemorate Sri Chinmoy?s 76th birthday. Sri Chinmoy is a highly prolific writer and artist, so we thought presenting him with a giant writing instrument would be appropriate. About 10 years ago, we built a 20-foot pencil for Sri Chinmoy, but, a few years later, the European pencil company, Faber-Castell, constructed a 64-foot pencil to erase (pardon the pun) our record. I wouldn?t have thought of g...
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The world's Tiniest Baby - Meet The 10oz Bundle Of Defiance
2007-09-28 09:41:00
When she was born, 15 weeks premature and weighing ten and a half ounces, her father's confidence was about the only thing on Kimberly Mueller's side.In the few snatched moments he was allowed before his daughter was whisked away by doctors, Andreas Mueller spoke from his heart."I whispered to her: 'Kimberly, you'll make it,'" he recalled.The size of a mobile phone: Kimberley Mueller weighed just over 10 ounces when she was born in Hanover, Germany - making her the world's smallest surviving babyWith a survival chance of less than 1,000 to one, every day she has got through since then is a triumph.Six months later, Kimberly has finally been allowed to go home to her parents in Hanover."Babies as small as this usually have no chance," said Dr Oliver Moeller, a heart specialist who treated her."We are incredibly lucky that she lived. Such a case I have never experienced. We had a lot of luck ... a lot."Kimberly is the smallest baby ever born in Germany and the youngest to surviv...
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World largest Pumpkin display on China
2007-09-27 22:01:00
A child touches a space-bred pumpkin in a supermarket in Xining, capital of Northwest China 's Qinghai Porvince, The giant pimpkin, which weighs 74 kilograms, attracted many customer to admire it.
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Stop the Rotating Fan with Your Tongue
2007-09-27 16:25:00
Gao Lei, a young man from Laiyang, a city of Shandong province, displayed his stunt of stopping a working fan with the tip of his tongue in this undated picture. [Photo: shm.com.cn]Have you ever tried using your fingers to stop the fast rotating propeller of an electric fan? Even more, have you thought of using your tongue to stop it? Ok here is someone who can do it.Gao Lei, a young man from Laiyang, Shandong province, can stop a running fan with his own tongue, the Yantai Evening News reports.When Gao carefully made contact with the fan using his tongue, the rotating fan began to slow down and finally came to a stop. When he lifted his tongue, the fan resumed rotating as before. But when a pen was used to touch the fan, the pen was flung away.Gao will join a TV program called "Want to Challenge" on China Central Television to display his stunt next month.But the young man can also play other tricks. He can do vocal imitation and he can drink a bottle of beer in 20 seconds, standin...
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Russian Woman Gives Birth to 17lb Child
2007-09-27 12:22:00
A Siberian woman who gave birth to her 12th child - doing more than her fair share to stem Russia's population decline - was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17.1 lb (7.75kg).Nadia was delivered by caesarean section in the local maternity hospital in the Altai region on September 17, joining eight sisters and three brothers, a local reporter said."We were all simply in shock," said Nadia's mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. "What did the father say? He couldn't say a thing - he just stood there blinking.""I ate everything, we don't have the money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes," she told the reporter, adding that all her previous babies had weighed more than 5 kg.The Guinness World Records lists a 10.2 kg baby boy born in Italy in 1955, and a 10.8 kg baby boy who was born in the United States in 1879 but died 11 hours later.The average weight for most healthy newborn babies is around 7.06 lb, according to World Health Organis...
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Man Loses 6st on Baked Bean Diet
2007-09-27 12:15:00
A Suffolk man lost six stone in six months on a diet of baked beans.James Skeates, 28, has trimmed down from 21-stone to 15-stone by eating at least two large cans of beans a day.The carpenter, of Haverhill, says he now has the energy to keep up with his young children Eleanor, three, and George, 10 months.James joined his local Slimming World Class in March and lost around a stone a month to hit his target weight, reports the Cambridge Evening News.James said: "I was getting through two tins a day, eating them in my breaks at work, then at home with jacket potatoes, wholemeal bread or pasta. I was never hungry, but the weight kept coming off."It didn't really cause me any problems eating all the beans, but strangely now I have reached my target weight I have recently suffered a bit more wind."Isabel Hooley, a dietician for Suffolk NHS Primary Care Trust, said: "Baked beans are fine as part of a healthy, balanced diet, but we would not recommend more than one portion a day."Baked b...
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Bee Man Show Stuns on Lookers
2007-09-26 16:49:00
Hou Dongming, the "bee-man", sits amid a swarm of bees to demonstrate his command of them on Monday, September 24, 2007, in a village near Siping, Jilin Province in northeast China. [Photo: New Culture View]A professional beekeeper stunned onlookers by performing an unusual "bee-man show", letting thousands upon thousands of bees creep all over his body, on Monday in a village near Siping, Jilin Province in northeast China.Once considered as a consummate skill among beekeepers, the "bee-man show", which demonstrates the beekeeper's control over his pets, has become a lost tradition in many parts of China.The performer, Hou Dongming, 33, is a local beekeeper in Siping's Pingxi County. Hou said that he learned the skill from his father, Hou Wanfu, 60, who can also perform the stunning show, New Culture View reports.Hou sat still among dozens of beehives, wearing a hat, a pair of black swimming goggles and tightly-sealed trousers. In addition, his upper body was naked, and his nostri...
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Yangtze River Delta Dragon Boat Contest
2007-09-25 18:00:00
Several tourism cities in the Yangtze River Delta held their dragon boat contest on September 23 in Nanjing, with 20-plus teams competing in it.
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Wellington Man Swam 244 Metres Underwater on one Breath
2007-09-24 19:15:00
Dave Mullins claims he is an "unusually slow" swimmer, but with lungs burning and legs aching he smashed the world record for an underwater swim without a breath not once, but twice.Yesterday, the Wellington man swam 244 metres underwater on one breath, blitzing a record he set on Friday by 18 metres.Using a mono fin, Mullins swam nonstop for four minutes and two seconds, completing nearly five lengths of the 50-metre Naenae pool."You have to get it pretty much spot on," he said. "You're after maximum efficiency, so the turns are pretty important."Mullins said that though he was an "unusually slow" swimmer, the sport was all about lasting the distance.American judge Grant Graves said yesterday's effort at the freediving competition - hosted for the first time in New Zealand - was one of the biggest increases in a world record he had heard of. "It was a very impressive swim."Mullins said it would take a few days to recover from the rigours of busting world records because of the bu...
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Underwater Diners break Record
2007-09-23 19:02:00
TV presenter Adrian Chiles joined 500 others to help break the world record for the largest sub-aqua dinner party.The Guinness Book of Record s is set to confirm exactly how many guests sat down to the gourmet meal of smoked salmon, vegetables and toffee apple.Wearing dinner jackets and ball gowns, diners indulged in their three-course meal at the outdoor swimming pool at The Park Club in Acton, west London.The food - which was served to sittings of about 20 people every 20 minutes - was prepared in jelly to stop it from disintegrating in the water.To eat, the diners had to remove their aqua lung mouth pieces, fork in the food and then replace the breathing equipment while pressing a button to purge away the water.The event raised more than £200,000 ($400,000) for charities including Save the Children, The Shooting Star Hospice, Brea k through Breast Cancer and The British Heart Foundation.Source:-Spluch
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A five foot python as washed the baby
2007-09-22 10:50:00
A "huge" python surprised the life out of a young mum after slithering into her bathroom unannounced as she washed her four-month-old baby.The five foot snake managed to creep into the house in Dartford, Kent, after possibly using a hole in an outer wall.Leanne Smith, 18, said: "We had been out for the evening and got home around 10.30pm and I wanted to bath Millie before I put her to bed.Shocked: Leanne Smith with daughter Millie"I was sitting in the bath with her. I saw something move from the corner of my eye and then I heard this huge hiss!"I looked round and there was this snake coiled up with its head up in the air as if it was going to attack."I screamed out for help to my partner Ben saying there was a snake in the bathroom."Leanne's partner Ben Payne, 18, ran into the room and grabbed Millie and helped Leanne from the bath.RSPCA officer Anthony Pulfer was called to the home to rescue the royal king python, which may have escaped from an owner in the neighbourhood.A five-fo...
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100 mln Turtle Eggs Left On Beach In 5 Days
2007-09-22 10:35:00
Ostional Beach in Santa Cruz, 563 km (350 miles) north of San Jose, Sept. 21, 2007. More than 100 million eggs are laid by turtles on the beach during a five-day period. Residents of this small town on the Pacific coast collect about one percent of the eggs to sell in Costa Rica.Two turtles arrive to lay eggsTurtle s arrive to lay eggsA turtle arrives to lay eggsPeople collect turtle eggsPeople collect turtle eggsCosta Rican men carry sacks filled with turtle eggs washed ashore
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Top 10 Cities of the World With The Most Beautiful Women
2007-09-21 10:50:00
A survey was taken around the world and the results were determined by: 1) Quality of women, 2) Amount of Women per men ratio and 3) Ease of talking to women.10. Amsterdam, HollandThis city has women more beautiful riding past on bicycles than other cities. Dutch girls are amazing in so many ways, they're trendy, as well as cool, they're fun, and they are exceptionally beautiful. They're the kind of girls that you just want to date for a very long time.9. Tel Aviv, IsraelIsrael has some of the best looking women in the world. Perhaps it is something about those green eyes that are just particularly attractive.8. Montreal, CanadaThe exquisite taste of France but with the convenient location of Canada, Montreal is truly one of the world's best cities filled with beautiful women. So many universities and colleges and so many women with fashion sense and a desire to take care of their bodies. One of the best parts is that the women all speak French commonly known as the language of ...
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Speed Eater Breaks Record
2007-09-21 09:40:00
Sonya Thomas may only weigh 7.5st - but the competitive eater still munched her way past dozens of beefy rivals at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.She managed to scoff 173 wings in 12 minutes to win the wing-eating contest in Buffalo, New York."That's 2.35kgs of wings," said Brian Kahle, spokesman for the annual event in the city where Buffalo wings were born.Ms Thomas, 40, who is originally from South Korea and now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, also held the festival's previous record of 161 wings in 12 minutes, set in 2004."She's the crowd favorite," Mr Kahle said. "It was 12 huge guys and her."Ms Thomas has set numerous records in competitive eating events, including 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes, 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes, 11-pounds of cheesecake in nine minutes and 44 lobsters in 12 minutes.She is ranked number five by the International Federation of Competitive Eating.According to the federation's website, number-one ranking Joey Chestnut holds the 12-minute record for c...
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The World's Longest Roast Chicken Cyprus
2007-09-20 15:11:00
On September 16, 2007, the Russian city Rostov, staff is a bunch of up to 70 meters roast chicken Series, which is the world's longest roast chicken Cyprus , but also to create a new Guinness record.Source:-qqNews
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130,000 Toothpicks Embedded into Challenges Guinness Record for painting
2007-09-20 11:19:00
A craftsman from Jiangxi is planning to use 130,000 toothpicks in a painting, forming the shape of Kwan-Yin, a goddess from Chinese folklore.Toothpicks may only be convenient pieces of wood in most people's eyes, but in Zheng Changlun's opinion, they have another usage---making mosaics.The craftsman from Shangrao, east China's Jiangxi province, is now working on a painstaking mosaic that is 1.2 meters high and 0.6 meters wide.A local newspaper reported on Wednesday that he is planning to incorporate 130,000 toothpicks in making a figure painting of Kwan-Yin, or Avalokiteshvara, the Goddess of Mercy from Chinese folklore.Zheng, 49, drew his inspiration from a TV program which showed an Albanian artist sticking together 1.5 million toothpicks in making a mosaic of a galloping horse. The artist was included into the Guinness Book of World Record s for his work.Zheng also plans to challenge the artist's work with his own after he finish the current work of Kwan-Yin, the report said.S...
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Aurel is The Human Magnet
2007-09-19 16:39:00
SOME guys have a kind of animal magnetism ? but amazing Aurel Raileanu finds just about ANYTHING will stick to him like glue.The Romanian hospital worker, known as The Human Magnet for his extraordinary ability, can even make a 50lb TV set cling to his chest without the aid of wires, blue or string.He can pick up electric irons using just his skin?s bizarre ability ? and he can clear a table of cutlery faster than an army of waiters.Now Aurel, who lives in a run-down area of the Romanian capital Bucharest, is building a career on his strange abilities.When he isn?t glued to the telly, he works as a kineto-therapist ? using the healing qualities of his powers to help people recover from accidents.The 40-year-old bachelor, who lives with his mum, claims he doesn?t know how he becomes a magnet for objects.But he explains that first he focuses his mind on something, then releases the feeling of magnetic attraction that makes even the heaviest item stick to him.Aurel wrote to The Sun des...

Child Abandoned at Australia Train Station
2007-09-19 07:29:00
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Police in three countries are hunting for the parents of a little girl in a red jacket nicknamed "Pumpkin" after she was abandoned at an Australia n railway station.Staff at the main country railway station in the southern city of Melbourne found three-year-old New Zealand toddler Qian Xun Xue crying and alone on Saturday.Security images showed Xue being led by a man police believe was her father, Nai Zin Xue, who left the station without his daughter to catch a flight to the United States."The girl remains calm and composed. Sometimes she spikes in emotions when she wakes up and mum's not there but the carers settle her back into a routine," Victorian state police inspector Brad Shallies told Australian television on Tuesday.The girl is being looked after by a foster family in Victoria.The case attracted blanket media coverage in Australia and New Zealand as authorities attempted to identify the toddler, who was dubbed "Pumpkin" after the Pumpkin Patch brand o...
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The Longest Underwater Tunnel In The World
2007-09-18 16:22:00
this strange-looking beast in tokyo is an artificial island and tourist attraction by the name of umihotaru (translation: marine firefly) which forms part of the tokyo bay aqualine, a bridge-tunnel that connects kawasaki and kisarazu.cars can either drive over the 4.4km bridge to the island and park in order to admire the view or drive straight through to the tunnel entrance where they will be taken under the water for 9.5km until they reach kawasaki.the tunnel is apparently the longest underwater tunnel in the world.Source:- Deputy Dog
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12 Foot Long Alligator Attacked 59 Year Old Bill Heddon
2007-09-17 18:58:00
A snorkeller whose arm was bitten off and swallowed by a monster alligator underwent a major operation to re-attach it after the beast was shot and the arm found in its belly.The 12-foot long alligator attacked 59-year-old Bill Heddon and chewed off his arm as he snorkelled on a lake.Beast: Alligator with the arm which was later taken from its stomach and re-attached to the victimWitnesses raised the alarm and emergency services and officers from the Department of Natural Resource rushed to Lake Moultrie near Charleston, South Carolina.As medics treated the injured man, officers shot the alligator. When they slit open the alligator's stomach they discovered the limb has been swallowed whole.Rescue: The victim, suffering blood loss, is taken by air ambulance to hospitalA group of Filipinos gathering for a nearby religious ceremony offered a box of ice and a cooler for the severed arm and the man and his limb were rushed to hospital.Doctors are waiting to see whether the operation to...
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Dead Man Wakes Up under Autopsy Knife
2007-09-17 18:53:00
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face."I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal.His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor -- and alive.Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
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Death Defying School Run
2007-09-17 13:38:00
A bridge is to be built in a Chinese village where children are forced to cross a raging torrent on a steel cable to get to school.Nearly 500 children, from Maji village in Fugong town, Yunnan province, cross the most dangerous stretch of the Nujiang River each day. They fasten themselves to the cable with a metal carabiner and a rope and slide across the 200 metre wide canyon, reports the Beijing News.The youngest student, A Qia, 4, has to go over by herself each day."I have to hand walk for about 60 metres, since my light weight makes me stop about two thirds of the way across," she said.The villagers say that usually four-year-old children are taken by their parents, and begin to go by themselves from the age of five.A Pu, five, who was stuck in the middle of the cable for nearly 20 minutes once, said: "I used to dream of having a bridge, but then I learned that my dream was too expensive."But officials finally agreed to spend £35,000 on a bridge after a TV programme was made abo...
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The Smallest And Biggest Teapot In The World
2007-09-17 07:40:00
This is the smallest bronze teapot ever made. The picture was taken at a Chinese folk art expo held in Shanghai on September 16.This is the picture taken on the same day, of the biggest teapot in the world.
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Venezuela Claims Big Soup Record
2007-09-16 16:57:00
Venezuelan officials claimed a world record Saturday for making the largest pot of soup, a giant cauldron of stew prepared by President Hugo Chavez?s government.The hulking stainless steel cooking pot, set up outdoors in downtown Caracas, contained about 3,960 gallons of ?sancocho? stew, Food Minister Rafael Oropeza said. That would dwarf the current record-holder listed on the Guinness World Record s Web site, a pot of 1,413 gallons of spicy soup prepared in Durango, Mexico, in July.Oropeza called it ?Bolivarian stew? _ a play on the name of Chavez?s socialist movement, named in honor of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar. He said it was enough to feed 60,000 to 70,000 people.Workers stood on raised platforms stirring the soup with poles, and then dished out servings to a crowd at a state-run market.It contained 6,600 pounds of chicken, 4,400 pounds of beef and tons of vegetables.Addressing reporters next to the pot, Oropeza said the government is solving supply problems...
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7 Underwater Wonders of the World
2007-09-16 11:44:00
A wealth of human history lies submerged in ancient cities at the bottoms of lakes, seas and oceans of the world. Some of these were sent into the water via earthquakes, tsunamis or other disasters thousands of years ago. Many have just recently been rediscovered, by accident or through emergent technological innovations. Some have even caused scientists to question the history of human civilization.Alexandria, Egypt: Off the shores of Alexandria, the city of Alexander the Great, lie what are believed to be the ruins of the royal quarters of Cleopatra. It is believed that earthquakes over 1,500 years ago were responsible for casting this into the sea, along with artifacts, statues and other parts of Cleopatra?s palace. The city of Alexandria even plans to offer underwater tours of this wonder.Bay of Cambay, India: A few years back discovered the remains of a vast 9,500 year old city. This submerged ruin has intact architecture and human remains. More significantly, this find predate...
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