Showing posts with label places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label places. Show all posts

Chinese Companies Accused of Selling Potentially Deadly Plastic Rice

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A major food safety scandal involving fake rice recently rocked China; News reports suggested that the grain is produced by mixing the po...
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The Glowing Firefly Squids of Toyama Bay

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Every year, between March and June, the 14-km coast of Japan Toyama Bay is lit up in blue. The electrifying light show is not man-made; It...
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The Mexican Town Where Women Engage in Bloody Fist Fights to Call the Rain

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Every year, in the month of May, the women from the Nahua village of Guerrero, Mexico, get together to beat the living daylights out of ea...
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Kindhearted Woman Saves 100 Dogs From Being Eaten During Controversial Festival

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A 65-year-old dog lover from China has gone to great lengths to save as many dogs as he possibly could from being eaten during Yulin Dog M...
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Bon Appetite! 40-Year-Old “Zombie Meat” Sold in Restaurants Across China

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after rice plastic, concrete-filled walnuts, flavored pork and beef, the latest food scandal in China involves expired meat be at least 30...
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World's Biggest Liar

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The World's Biggest Liar competition is held every November at the Bridge Inn,  Santon Bridge , in memory of Will Ritson (1808–1890...
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Bishop Rock: The Smallest Island in the World

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Bishop Rock is a small rocky ledge jutting out of the sea, 4 miles west of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall. The rock rises from a depth...
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French Cafe Charges Rude Customers More Than Double

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Here's a cafe that's being proactive about customer behavior towards waitstaff: A Nice-Matinreporter tweeted a photo of the menu a...
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An Island within a Lake on an Island within a Lake on an Island

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Vulcan Point in the Philippines is the world's largest island within a lake (Main Crater Lake) that is situated on an island (Volca...
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Dancing Plague of 1518

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The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roma...
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The Happiest Prisoners

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In the shadow of Mount Baldy, where lodgepole pine and trembling aspen compete for space in Alberta’s spectacular Kananaskis Country, a...

U.S. family tries living without China

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Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author...

Japanese man learns to scuba dive to search for remains of missing wife

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TAKENOURA, Japan – On a chilly morning last weekend, a 57-year-old Japanese man adjusted his diving mask before heading out to sea from t...

Antilla – The $1 Billion SUPER Home In Mumbai, India

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Location: Altamount Rd Mumbai, MH, India Square Footage: 400,000 Value: $1,000,000,000 If you haven’t heard of this home already, then yo...

The Evolution of Oktoberfest: A Historical Timeline

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When you think of Oktoberfest, it likely brings to mind images of beer kegs, mounds of pretzels, delicious bratwurst, accordion players ...

Flesh-Eating Disease Spreading in Pangasinan

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Manila , Philippines - ABS - CBN late night newscast Bandila on Monday, February 24, 2014 aired the story about the mysterious disease in...