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Europe’s rudest road trip

May 26, 2023804 Views

Drivers looking for a giggle have been told how to take Europe’s rudest road trip as the glorious Summer weather approaches. From Condom in France to Middelfart in Denmark, holiday car rental experts at StressFreeCarRental.com have researched Europe’s most offensive place names to create the ultimate route for brazen travellers. With cheeky places dotted all over the old continent, the rude road trip takes drivers across several countries to catch a glimpse of all of Europe's crudest spots. France, Switzerland and Italy are just three countries motorists will tick off as they embark on the road trip to hunt down these wacky locations. As drivers make their way through Italy, they will travel to a beautiful seaside location, which boasts some of Europe's bes...

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Humanity’s earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago

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May 22, 20231252 Views

Written sources document that kissing was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago, conclude researchers from the University of Copenhagen and University of Oxford in a new article published in the journal Science. New research has postulated that the initial indications of human lip kissing emerged 3,500 years ago in a highly precise South Asian area. It is believed that this practice subsequently disseminated to various regions, thereby concurrently hastening the transmission of herpes simplex virus 1. As per the findings presented by Dr. Troels Pank Arbøll and Dr. Sophie Lund Rasmussen in a recent article published in the journal Science, they assert that based on an extensive examination of written sources from ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, the...

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7 Wonders of the World in less than 7 days

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May 16, 20231740 Views

Travelport and Adventureman set a new World Record # Travelport, a travel technology company, wanted to put its modern retail platform, Travelport+, to the test: could it make the world’s most complex trip simple? # Jamie McDonald, a British Adventurer better known as “Adventureman”, traveled to the Seven Modern Wonders of the World, using only public transport: the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, Petra, the Colosseum, Christ the Redeemer, Machu Pichu and Chichén Itzá # The trip was booked by the travel agency, Travelbag, a partner of Travelport, who has been utilizing Travelport+ since its inception # During the trip, Jamie traveled across 4 continents, landed in 9 countries, flew on 13 flights, and rode in 16 taxis, 9 buses, 4 trains and 1 toboggan to cover 22,856 mile...

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He likes to be, under the sea: Florida man sets record for living underwater

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May 15, 2023805 Views

A university professor broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers. Joseph Dituri’s 74th day residing in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, situated at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in Key Largo, wasn’t much different than his previous days there since he submerged March 1. Dituri, who also goes by the moniker “Dr. Deep Sea,” ate a protein-heavy meal of eggs and salmon prepared using a microwave, exercised with resistance bands, did his daily pushups and took an hour-long nap. Unlike a submarine, the lodge does not use technology to adjust for the increased underwater pressure. In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, diving explorer and medical researcher Dr. Joseph Dituri, right, w...

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Chile’s firefighting goats protect a native forest from deadly blazes

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May 14, 2023788 Views

In the southern Chilean city of Santa Juana, hit hard by wildfires earlier this year, locals have a special taskforce helping fight blazes: a herd of goats. The goats have already saved the native forest of the Bosques de Chacay once, preventing the park from being consumed by February forest fires - fueled by heatwaves and a punishing drought - that left dozens dead, thousands injured and almost 440,000 hectares destroyed in south-central Chile. Rocio Cruces, founder of the "Buena Cabra" (Good Goat) project, an initiative that relies on goats to control dry pastures and other vegetation that fuel forest fires in the summer, feeds goats at her stable in a forest in Santa Juana, Chile, May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Juan Gonzalez "The park was surrounded by fires, but it ended up being the...

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The quilt stories : stitched for ever

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April 27, 2023810 Views

From simple geometric shapes to the intricately wrought details of daily life, the quilt designs in a show now running at the American Folk Art Museum show how powerfully this art form has told stories for centuries and been a vehicle for creativity. “What That Quilt Knows About Me” comprises 35 quilts and related works in an intimate gallery space. Some tell stories about the maker’s life or process. Others explore quilting technique, using different materials. One quilt estimated to be from the early 1800s bursts with details, including tropical flowers and pugs with fancy collars. Curators don’t know who the artist was, but the appliqued imagery reflects popular pastimes of women in the 19th century. This image provided by the American Folk Art Museum shows the Original Des...

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Severe solar storm creates dazzling auroras farther south

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April 26, 2023838 Views

An intense solar storm has the northern lights gracing the skies farther south than usual. A blast of superhot material from the sun late last week hurled scorching gases known as plasma toward Earth at nearly 2 million mph (3 million kph), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. Earth felt the brunt of the storm Sunday, according to NOAA, with forecasters warning operators of power plants and spacecraft of the potential for disruption. The northern lights are seen over a farm near Pulaski, Wis., on Sunday, April 23, 2023. An intense solar storm has the aurora borealis gracing the skies farther south than usual. (Sarah Kloepping/The Post-Crescent via AP) Auroras were reported across parts of Europe and Asia. In the U.S., skygazers took in the sights fr...

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The “Stonehenge calendar” shown to be a modern construct

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March 25, 2023845 Views

Stonehenge is an astonishingly complex monument, which attracts attention mostly for its spectacular megalithic circle and “horseshoe”, built around 2600 BC. Over the years, several theories have been put forward about Stonehenge's meaning and function. Today, however, archaeologists have a rather clear picture of this monument as a “place for the ancestors”, located within a complex ancient landscape which included several other elements. Archaeoastronomy has a key role in this interpretation since Stonehenge exhibits an astronomical alignment to the sun which, due to the flatness of the horizon, refers both to the summer solstice sunrise and to the winter solstice sunset. This accounts for a symbolic interest of the builders in the solar cycle, most probably related to the connect...

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Bulgarians ward off evil spirits in ancient winter festival

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January 17, 2023984 Views

Revellers dressed in red, some wearing huge masks and belts strung with large copper bells, dance around a fire on the main square of a Bulgarian village to drive away evil spirits and bring in good health and crops for the New Year. The festival, held every January in the village of Kosharevo, is known as "Surva" and is a mixture of Christian and pagan rituals that can be traced back to Thracian times. People wearing masks made of feathers participate in a winter festival in the village of Kosharevo, Bulgaria January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov Some of the dancers, known as Survakars, or kukers (mummers), wear hand-made wooden masks decorated with feathers, which can be up to two metres high. The loud clanging of the bells on their belts is believed to ward off evil and disea...

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‘Dress like a cabbage’: Surviving Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city

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January 16, 20231051 Views

Temperatures have plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) this week in Yakutsk during an abnormally long cold snap in the Siberian city known as the coldest on earth. Located 5,000 km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow on the permafrost of the Russian Far East, residents of the mining city often see the thermometer regularly drop well below minus 40. "You can't fight it. You either adjust and dress accordingly or you suffer," said Anastasia Gruzdeva, outside in two scarves, two pairs of gloves and multiple hats and hoods. "You don't really feel the cold in the city. Or maybe it's just the brain prepares you for it, and tells you everything is normal," she added in the city shrouded by icy mist. Another resident, Nurgusun Starostina, who sells frozen fi...