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Giant prehistoric tusks Researchers in northern Greece

Researchers in northern Greece have found two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed Europe more than 2 million years ago -- tusks that could be the largest of their kind ever found.
The remains of the mastodon, which was similar to the woolly mammoth but had straighter tusks as well as different teeth and eating habits, were found in an area about 250 miles north of Athens.One of the tusks measured 16-feet-4-inches long and the other was more than 15 feet long, the research team said. They were found with the animal's upper and lower jaws -- still bearing teeth -- and leg bones, said Evangelia Tsoukala, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Thessaloniki, who led the team that excavated the site.

The tusks were discovered in October by an excavation machine operator working at a sand quarry, but it took months for the scientific investigation to be organized.

Kim Jong-Il's Stuntwoman Injured by Swords during Performance

Japanese magician Princess Tenko, who has once been gifted a rare dog by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, was seriously injured when metal swords trapped her in a box during a performance in the central Japanese city of Sabae recently.

During "the spike illusion in the face of death" show, the doll-looking magician was supposed to escape from the box on the moment it was spiked with 10 fake metal swords, but instead they trapped her inside and broke her right cheek and ribs.

A little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking Coca-Cola / PEPSI together.

A little boy died in Brazil after eating MENTOS and drinking Coca-Cola / PEPSI together. One year before the same accident happened with another boy in Brazil. Please check the experiment that has been done by mixing Coka-Cola (or Coka-Cola Light) with MENTOS. So be careful with your self eating MENTOS (POLO's) and drinking COCA-COLA or PEPSI together. PLZ PASS THIS INFORMATION TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE SPECIALLY TO THE CHILDREN'S. BECAUSE IN OUR COUNTRY MENTOS AND COCA-COLA BOTH ARE VERY POPULAR TO THE CHILDREN.

Octopus helps unearth 900-year-old ancient pottery

South Korean archaeologists have discovered a sunken vessel packed with ancient pottery, in an exploration prompted by an octopus which attached its suckers to a plate.

The 12th-century wooden vessel was found buried in mud flats off Taean, southwest of Seoul, the National Maritime Museum said.

More than 2,000 pieces of 12th-century bowls, plates and other types of pottery were heaped inside the 7.7 meter (25-foot) vessel, it said.



The exploration began in early June after shards of celadon pieces were found attached to the suckers of several webfoot octopuses which a fisherman had netted.

The museum has since retrieved about 540 pieces, which were scattered around the vessel. Several shipwrecks filled with relics including ancient pottery have been found along the west coast, where many kilns were established in the Koryo era.

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Body painting contest for pregnant mothers

This pretty cute and funny picture was released by China's Xinhua News Agency on July 23, 2007. In this picture, pregnant ladies stand in line to show the cartoon figures on their abdomens during a contest of colored drawing for pregnant mothers at a hospital in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan province.

Most expensive pen

Swiss company Caran d'Ache made 'La Modernista Diamonds' a pen that was sold in Harrods, London, for $265,000.

Created in memory of architect Antonio Gaudi, the rhodium-coated solid silver pen has an 18-karat gold pen point and is pave-set with 5,072 diamonds and 96 half-cut rubies .

Angry circus elephant kills Thai man

Police in eastern Thailand say an angry circus elephant grabbed a 30-year-old air conditioner repairman, Surat Kaenthip, who had provoked him and stomped on him until he was fatally injured.

The six-year-old elephant was resting in an open field in Rayong province, 90 miles east of Bangkok when the man hit him, said police Lieutenant Colonel Thanit Saeniwong na Ayuddhaya.

"The elephant then grabbed the man's body with his trunk and hurled him on to the ground before stomping on his body," he said.

Rescuers were deterred from helping Surat because the elephant ran toward them in a threatening manner, Thanit said. They eventually succeeded in taking Surat away but he later died in hospital from a cracked skull.

Onlookers then managed to temporarily placate the elephant by feeding him bunches of bananas, but he turned angry again, and dented a pickup truck parked nearby before his trainer - who had been away - returned and managed to calm him down.

British Woman Reads Harry Potter--the Deathly Hallows in Just 47 Minutes

In possibly a world record-breaking 4244 words-per-minute, six-time world speed reading champion Anne Jones has read the final installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows in just 47 minutes and 1 second on the day when the new 759-page book was launched in UK.

Goldfish sealed in bulletproof glass

This cool picture shows the gold fish sealed in a thick piece of bulletproof glass. It was pictured at a shopping mall in Qingdao, Shangdong Province July 20, 2007. This is not a fish tank, but it do really look alike. The lifelike gold fish in the glass are china made in Jingdezhen.

How To Make Tampon Angel

You’ll find instructions all over the Web for this classic tampon decoration, but we think ours is the best and easiest.

Materials

* Playtex tampons (or similar brand like Rely or Always)
* Paint
* Hot glue gun
* Gold metallic chenille pipe cleaners
* Doll hair (you can just chop some off an old Barbie)
* X-Acto knife
* Scissors
* Cardboard
* Glitter glue

Instructions
Dampen tampon just enough so it unfolds, then let dry. Cut the top off the applicator to make the head. Paint face on head, then string back onto inverted tampon.


Glue head onto tampon, then glue doll hair onto head. Twist section of gold pipe cleaner into halo, then wrap around neck. Glue down if necessary. Cut out cardboard wings and decorate with glitter glue. Glue onto angel’s back.

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Amazing sand art in action

Its time for youto see some sand art in action.

Super Cow Aka Incredible Hulk Cow

dThis time meet Belgian Blue Cattle which is famous for their double muscling due to a gene that suppresses the production of Myostatin. This breed produces extraordinary amounts of meat but critics call Belgian blues ‘monster cows’ and some countries have advocated to eliminate the strain. Check out more of Belgium Blue Cattle with 18 more Incredible Hulk Cow

Matsumoto Castle Replica Built With Old Paper Money

Some folks at the Nagano branch of the Bank of Japan have created a 1/70 scale replica of Matsumoto Castle out of paper money. About 100 million yen [818,000 US dollars] of out of circulation 5,000 and 10,000 yen bills were used in its construction. The 70 centimeter tall replica was build to commerate the 100th anniversary of the creation of Matsumoto City.

Kissing competition in the Italian

An underwater kissing competition was held in the Italian Adriatic resort town of Riccione Claudia Petazzoni (L) and Fidel Rios in the above picture won the title. Quite like the idea to stay cool in a hot summer.

Tips How to look Happy at work

How to look Happy at work

As of today all personnel will be expected to look happy at work. Rubber bands and paper clips will be provided at no cost
Workload getting to you?
Feeling stressed?
Too many Priority 1 assignments?

Here is the new low cost way to cope with multiple Priority 1 assignments!

Take 2 paperclips and rubber bands.


Assemble them as shown on the picture


Apply as shown picture


Enjoy your day.
This new office equipment will help you to reach the end of the day with a smile on your face!

American brothers gored on the horns of the same bull

A bull that broke from the pack seriously gored two American brothers, catching one on each of its horns during the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, where both were recovering Friday in the hospital.

Lawrence and Michael Lenahan were gored simultaneously by the bull, which also injured 11 other people Thursday. It was the worst day for injuries in the nine-day festival.

"I started yelling at my brother to show him I was bleeding everywhere but he showed me he was bleeding everywhere," said Lawrence Lenahan, a 26-year-old Air Force captain from Hermosa Beach, Calif., in a telephone interview from his hospital bed.

He was gored in the buttocks, while Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, was injured in his leg and was recovering well from surgery at the same hospital.

The computer program finds how you feel

New facial analysis software has been developed that claims to be able to recognize a person's mood in an instant. It could mean the start of personalised advertising campaigns that can tell how you feel by simply looking at your face.

The 'rapid facial analysis' technology is being developed by researchers at the German Fraunhofer Institute. It uses highly complex software to find a human face in an image, work our whether the face is male or female, and then analyse their expressions.

"The special feature of our facial analysis software is that it operates in real time," says Dr. Christian Küblbeck, project manager at the IIS.



The most important facial characteristics used by the system are the contours of the face, the eyes, the eyebrows and the nose.

The system first has to go through a training phase in which it is presented with huge quantities of data containing images of faces.

The computer compares 30,000 facial characteristics with the information that it has previously learned. "On a standard PC, the calculations are carried out so quickly that mood changes can be tracked live," explains Küblbeck.

The software package is not only of interest to advertising psychologists; there are numerous potential applications for the system.

The developers say that it can be used to test the user-friendliness of computer software programs.

The system monitors the facial expressions of the user in order to determine which aspects of the program arouse a particularly strong reaction.

The system could also be used to check the levels of concentration of car drivers.