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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

He Has Two? She Has Two?

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An Indian businessman born with two penises wants one of them removed surgically as he wants to marry and lead a normal sexual life. Luck lands in his lap, literally, and he want surgery to correct it?

Islamic clerics in eastern India have ruled that a woman divorced by her husband in a fit of drunkenness can remarry him only after she takes another husband for one day.

A man angry at firefighters who refused to rescue a cat from a tree was arrested after he started shooting at the fire crew.

Mathematician May Have Solved 100-Year-Old Problem. You should really read about this. A reclusive Russian won an academic prize Tuesday for work toward solving one of history's toughest math problems, but he refused to accept the award — a stunning renunciation of accolades from the top minds in his field.

The British Library has bought a valuable archive from the family of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that portrays the clan's affectionate, if slightly bemused, view of its "presiding genius."

Chewing gum, toothpaste and deodorant might soon contain beneficial bacteria to fight tooth decay and underarm stench.

They have dozens of bone fragments. They have a hatchet. They have a man in jail who claims to have killed seven men and scattered their remains across his rural property.

A tiny ant has the fastest jaw in the animal kingdom — literally quicker than the blink of an eye.

A U.S. Baptist preacher has publicly defended himself for firing a female Sunday School teacher after more than 50 years on the job because he believes the Bible bans women from teaching men. Makes sense to me.

Joe Walsh gets a chance to rock with James Gang. How cool is that? Very cool indeed.

Today in History:
565 - St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field decisively ends the Wars of the Roses
1654 - Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first Jewish immigrant to what is later the United States
1770 - James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia
1775 - King George III declares the American colonies to be in open rebellion
1780 - James Cook's ship Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage)
1864 - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed.
1901 - Cadillac Motor Company founded.
1902 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile
1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered
1962 - An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails. Take that stupids.
1969 - Elvis Presley begins performing live again in Las Vegas
1970 - Neil Young released his album, After The Gold Rush.
1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger as Secretary of State.
1979 - Led Zeppelin released their album, In Through The Out Door.
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered
2004 - The Scream, the painting by Edvard Munch, is stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

Happy Birthday:
1834 - Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviation pioneer (d. 1906)
1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
1947 - Donna Godchaux, singer (Grateful Dead)
1958 - Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour)
1963 - Tori Amos, American singer, songwriter, and pianist
1967 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)

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