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1 World Trade Center construction progress (taken today, April 25, 2012)

3 Topless Ukrainian Women Protest in Davos

Three Ukrainian women went topless to protest economic inequality at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland. Braving freezing temperatures, they tore off their shirts, carried crude signs and tried to gain access into the conference. Bemused security officials detained the three women after they tried to scale the fence. The conference is an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders. The activists are from the group Femen, which has become popular in Ukraine for staging small, half-naked protests.

10 Terribly Dangerous Warning Signs

Gang rape prohibited on King County buses.



From Indiana.



Scariest Sign, EVAR. 

Fast dog. 

Funny but true. 

That would be terrible.



Crazy penguins in Cape Town. 

Kakadu is known for its lovely and life-sustaining wetlands, and is home to countless birds and fish, turtles, snakes and— possibly the scariest animal ever—estuarine crocodiles. Signs everywhere warn you not to enter or even get close to the water, frightening you off with a depiction of a toothy and malevolent-looking croc, jaws wide open ready to gobble you up should you dip a toe in the river.

10 Hotels Famous People have Died In

Since famous people stay (and play!) in hotels quite often, it stands to reason that they might meet their untimely deaths while checked into a luxury hotel. Most recently it was singer/actress Whitney Houston who was found dead at age 48 in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Read on to see ten more hotels where stars checked in before checking out... permanently. 

1. The Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, CA

Actor/comedian John Belushi died of an accidental drug overdose while staying in one of the bungalows at the famous Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, on March 5, 1982. He was just 33 years old.

After staying up all night drinking and doing drugs with friends Robert DiNiro and Robin Williams, Belushi injected one more speedball (a combination of speed and heroin) before going to sleep at around 8:30 AM. He never woke up; his personal trainer arrived around noon to find him dead in his bed, and attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

2. Lorraine Motel, Memphis, TN

On April 4, 1968, American leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martin Luther King, Jr., was gunned down on the balcony of his hotel room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39 years old.

James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was convicted of the murder and spent the rest of his life in prison. The Lorraine Hotel location is now home to the National Civil Rights Museum, a privately owned complex of museums and historic buildings. 

3. Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris, France

Irish writer, playwright, and poet Oscar Wilde died at this hotel in November of 1900, after a long illness. He was 46 years old, and despite the fact that he had been celebrated for his writing, he spent time in jail after being accused of homosexuality and sodomy and died nearly penniless. The hard life of a prison inmate took its toll on Wilde's health, and he never returned to good health even after he was released from jail. He grew sicker and sicker over several weeks, during which time he made some of his most famous witticisms to visiting friends, including:

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go," "I am dying beyond my means," and, "I can't even afford to die."

4. Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Sydney, Australia

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel (now called the Stamford Plaza Hotel) is a popular destination for celebrities who are traveling in Sydney. In 1997, INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence was only 37 years old when he was found dead in room 524 of the Ritz Hotel. He was found completely nude and hanging from a leather belt with drugs and alcohol bottles strewn around the room.

His death was officially ruled a suicide, however, since Hutchence left no suicide note and had even made breakfast plans with an ex-girlfriend for the following morning, many people believe that his death was accidental. Since Hutchence was found naked, it is believed that he hanged himself while participating in autoerotic asphyxiation, which is the act of strangling oneself while masturbating to increase the intensity of an orgasm.

5. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Miami, FL

Anna Nicole Smith was 39 when she died at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Miami. Prior to being found unresponsive in her bed, Smith had been very sick for about a week with flu-like symptoms. Refusing to seek medical treatment, Smith instead continually dosed herself with both over-the-counter and prescription drugs for several days. She had an oozing, pus-filled infection on her buttocks from repeated injections of drugs, and her hotel room was littered with SlimFast cans, Tamiflu packages, and pill bottles.

Smith had suffered a 105° fever the day before her death. On February 8, 2007 she died in her hotel bed, and the toxicology reports later found nine different kinds of pharmaceutical drugs present in her bloodstream, including chloral hydrate, the sedative that also contributed to Marilyn Monroe's overdose in 1962. 

6. The Landmark Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Janis Joplin was recording what would be her final album in October of 1970 when she took a fatal overdose of heroin and died on the floor of the Landmark Hotel (now the Highland Gardens) in L.A. She had worked in the recording studio all day and then went out for drinks with a member of her band. She was last seen talking to the clerk at the hotel's front desk when she had gotten change to buy cigarettes.

After shooting up with heroin that she had purchased that day, Joplin fell down so hard that she nearly shattered her nose. The heroin she had injected turned out to be about eight times stronger than what she was used to, so her overdose was completely accidental. Joplin was just 27 years old when she died.

7. Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Just hours after winning the California Democratic Primary election (which made him the Democratic candidate for President), Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot in the kitchen of this hotel just after midnight on June 5, 1968. Kennedy was the brother of assassinated U.S. President, John F. Kennedy.

Twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of the murder and is still serving his life sentence in prison for the crime. This hotel was demolished in 2005 and six schools, called the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools, now stand on the land. 

8. Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

David Carradine was 72 years old when a chamber maid at this hotel in Bangkok discovered his body in 2009. The American actor was best known for his role in the 1970's television drama "Kung Fu" as well as his role as "Bill" in the Quentin Tarrantino film, "Kill Bill." 

Carradine was found hanging in the closet with cords binding his hands and his genitals. He also had a gag in his mouth. Reports indicate that the actor had a history of enjoying deviant sex acts, including autoerotic asphyxiation, so despite evidence that there may have been another person in his room prior to his passing, his death was ruled accidental. (Link | Photo)

9. The Ritz Hotel in Paris, France

Style icon Coco Chanel lived in a luxurious suite at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Paris for 30 years, and she passed away there at age 87 on January 10, 1971. Touted as being one of the greatest couturiers of the 20th century, Chanel is the designer responsible for introducing the famous "little black dress" and was the creator of one of the most popular perfume fragrances of all time, Chanel No. 5. 

Chanel was working on her Spring fashion collection in her room at the time of her death. Feeling unwell, Chanel went to bed and died peacefully in her sleep. The official cause of her death is unknown. (Link | Photo)

10. Hotel Chelsea, New York, NY

Sid Vicious was an English punk rock musician and bassist of the band The Sex Pistols. Prior to his death, Vicious was accused of killing his 20-year-old girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, by stabbing her in the abdomen while they were both heavily drugged. Nancy died on the bathroom floor of their room in the Hotel Chelsea in NYC. 

Vicious gave conflicting statements to police; he apparently couldn't remember if he had stabbed Nancy or not because he had been so high on heroin when she died. 

Sid and Nancy's sad story does not end with her death at the Chelsea, however. In February of 1979, Vicious purposely overdosed on heroin at age 21. After his death, his mother found a suicide note in his pocket that read:

"We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."

Sadly, because Nancy was Jewish and Sid was not, they could not be buried together.

10 Incredible Novelty Tattoos

A man who lost an arm in a freak accident, has had his stump transformed by a tattoo artist into the head of a dolphin. Heine Braeck, 33, hated his stump, caused by a childhood accident on a train track. The Norwegian realized the shape of it was identical to a dolphin's head. So he asked Bulgarian artist, Valio Ska, to turn the stump into a 3D tattoo, with amazing results. Valio spent over three hours on the meticulous ink job.

Toupees. The comb-over. Now, a head tattoo? If a UK company has its way, men suffering from hair loss will turn to needles and ink to mask their baldness. His Hair Clinic, based in Birmingham, England, uses what it describes as "a mild form of medical tattooing" to simulate the look of shaved or closely cropped hair. The procedure, which His Hair Clinic calls "hair follicle replication," takes three hours to complete and requires an additional follow-up session. 

White ink tattoos are a new trend. This new type of tattoo, which is inked exclusively with white pigment, is favored by more and more people. The end result is a tattoo that has a subtle, almost “ghostly,” image.

Organ tattoos originally began within the organ transplant industry to ensure that transplant patients got the correct organs, but it has now become an art form.

Can't decide what to draw? How about covering half of your face and head with black? Probably one of the most extreme face tattoos ever.

ID tattoo? Well, yes! Richard Ashton from the U.K. always carries his passport. In fact, his passport has become a permanent part of his body since he had it tattooed on his back. Mr. Ashton, 27, a personal trainer from Wandsworth, London, had this done as a memento of a 2005 backpacking holiday in Australia. 

Ashton is not allowed to travel overseas brandishing his back as identification, as he is still required to carry a regular passport through customs. However, he revealed that he has used it as an ID in order to make a bank withdrawal, whipping off his shirt in the Australian bank. (Link)

Controlling your diabetes could make you look tough. A special tattoo ink, that changes color based on glucose levels inside the skin, is under development by Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories. The injectablenanotech ink could eventually free diabetics from painful blood glucose tests. (Link)

Extreme fan tattoo. 

Lots of children love Disney princesses, but most of them kind of grow out of it. But not Annfaye Kao, 27, of Taichung, Taiwan. Annfaye loves Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs so much that she got the entire cast tattooed on her back.

University Finals are Almost Over ..... Some Tests have been graded and here are this years best "Wrong" answers so far

If You're Gonna Cheat, Cheat Correctly.... At the very least, get your eyes checked--it`s all about accurate distance vision.











































I can't decide if this is bad or good teaching. At least it's motivating. This teacher decided to attach job applications for McDonald's to the failed tests from her students.

10 Hilariously Clever Engineering Solutions "cause evolution does not have to destroy nature"

10 Most Bizarre People on Earth

I thought I've met some really strange people in my life.  But then i did a bit of research and have determined that my family reunion isn't the carnival cast of characters i once made them out to be.  Below is a list of most bizarre people I could find on them Internets.  Since the day that Youtube was released into the never ending abyss that we affectionately nicknamed The Web more and more strange people have found their way into the lime light of Internet Fame. Some on purpose, some the victims of acts of "Great Friendship".  Anyways, on with the show.  


10. 

Lotito: mister eat-it-all

Michel Lotito (born June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966. 

Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion of his metallic meals. 

9.

Bawden: the self-elected Pope Michael I, from Kansas

David Allen Bawden (born 1959), is an American citizen who was elected "Pope Michael I" by a group of six Conclavist or post-Sedevacantist Catholics, arguing that the elections of the last 6 popes were invalid because they are all modernists. 

Sedevacantists argue that if the College of Cardinals will not or cannot elect a valid pope, ordinary Catholics can do so, under the principle of "Epikeia" (Equity). Acting on the basis of this, David Bawden was elected Pope by six people on 1990 (including himself and his parents). He is still on the job to this day.

8. 

Nakamatsu: photographed and analyzed every meal for 34 years

Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born June 26, 1928), a.k.a. Dr. NakaMats, is the Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including the floppy disk and "PyonPyon" spring shoes. He has being photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). The goal of Nakamatsu is to live over 140 years old. 

7. 

Icke: our salvation from Reptilian Humanoids

David Icke, is a former professional football player, BBC television sports presenter, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world.": reptilians. 

He dresses only in turquoise and sustains that the world was ruled by a secret groupcalled "The Elite": a race of reptilian humanoids, known in ancient times as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that many prominent people are descended from them, including George W. Bush,Queen Elizabeth II, and Kris Kristofferson. He believes that descendants of the reptiles engage in child molestation and Satanism. He is the author of 15 books explaining his views. After a five-hour speech to students, he received a standing ovation at the University of Toronto in 1999. 

6. 

Mitsuo: a japanese Jesus Christ

Matayoshi Mitsuo is an eccentric Japanese politician with the conviction that he is the God and Christ.According to his program, he will do the Last Judgement as the Christ but the way to do this is totally within the current political system and its legitimacy. His first step as the Savior is to be appointed the prime minister of Japan. Then he will reform Japanese society and then the United Nations should offer him the honor of its General Secretary. Then Matayoshi Jesus will reign over the whole world with two legitimate authorities, not only religious but also political. 
He has presented himself in many elections but he has not won yet. He has become well-known for his eccentric campaigns where he urges opponents to commit suicide by hara-kiri. 

5. 

Bihari: most officially dead person

Lal Bihari (born 1961) is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India who was officially dead from 1976 to 1994. He founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive. 

When Lal Bihari tried to apply for a bankloan in 1976, he found out that he was officially dead. His uncle had bribed a government official to register him as dead so he would get the ownership of Bihari's land. 

Bihari discovered at least 100 other people in a similar situation, being officially dead. He formed Mritak Sangh in the Azamgarh district. He and many other members were in danger of being killed by those who had appropriated their property. Nowadays the association has over 20,000 members all over India. By 2004 they had managed to declare four of their members alive. In 2004 he ran for a seat in the parliament of Lal Ganj.

4. 

Mehran: lives at the Airport since 1988

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (yes, including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988. After he was later imprisoned, tortured and expelled from his country, he applied for asylum in many European countries without luck. 

When he decided to go to the United Kingdom, he claimed that he was mugged, and his shoulder bag stolen while waiting at the RER platform to go to Charles de Gaulle Airport to take a flight to Heathrow. Nasseri managed to board the plane, but when he arrived at Heathrow without the necessary documentation, Heathrow officials sent him back to Charles de Gaulle. Nasseri was unable to prove his identity or his refugee status to the French officials and so he was moved to the Zone d'attente (waiting zone), a holding area for travellers without papers. 

Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal. Unlike Tom Hanks' character in the movie, and since at least 1994, Nasseri does not live in the duty-free transit area but simply in the departure hall, in the circular boutiques and restaurants passage on the lowest floor. He can at least theoretically leave the terminal at any moment, although, since everyone knows him, his departure might not remain unnoticed. He does not seem to speak with anyone normally. With his cart and bags, he almost looks like a traveler, so people either do not notice him or ignore him as if he were a homeless person

3. 

Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII

Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding. 

On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants. For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan, carrying his rusted rifle at his side. 


2. 

Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach

Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. iving in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmeticworry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." 

At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. 

1. 

Ngoc: three decades without sleep

Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish. 

After researching the interesting people listed above I have come across two questions that come to mind that delight and disturb me to no end.  1. Think about the "Weird" individuals that we have not discovered yet? 2. Is the world on a downward spiral of intelligence or is the audience for the village idiot just getting larger? 

   Steve TheBartender