Posted by Steve on January 30, 2012 ·
Do you or maybe you have taken your outfits to your dry cleaners? There’s a lot of expert cleaners on the market still which should you decide upon? Should you be worried about the kind of items applied to your clothes things and choose to stay away from severe substances, you can use dry cleaners [...]
Posted by Nick on December 4, 2011 ·
Iran’s military has shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and has threatened to respond to the violation of Iranian airspace, a military source told state television Sunday.
“Iran’s military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern Iran,” [...]
Posted by Nick on November 10, 2011 ·
Model Miranda Kerr walks the runway in a $2.5 million bra during the 2011 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the Lexington Avenue Armory on November 9, 2011 in New York City. The lingerie features approximately 3,400 hand-placed gems, including 142 carats of diamonds in addition to pearls, citrines, [...]
Posted by Nick on November 7, 2011 ·
Philadelphia boxing legend and former undisputed heavyweight champion “Smokin’ ” Joe Frazier has passed away at 67.
Posted by Nick on September 7, 2011 ·
Big giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines
Posted by Nick on August 20, 2011 ·
A Finnish ferry has run aground while its captain was stuck in the bathroom. One member of staff managed to slow the island-hopping tourist ferry down, but the vessel, carrying 54 passengers, slammed onto a rock near the shore of Helsinki, the Finnish coastguard said Friday.
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
It was arguably the most suspicious disappearance in American history: On July 30, 1975, James “Jimmy” Hoffa, former head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union and one of the most powerful and well-known men in America, vanished so quickly and so thoroughly that his vanishing [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
The federal prison on Alcatraz Island had long been known as America’s most secure lockup when Frank Morris began serving time there in 1960 after attempting to escape other facilities. The Rock was also falling apart, a fact that Morris — who reportedly had a 130-plus IQ — noticed [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
In April of 1956, Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin and future premier Nikita Khrushchev chugged into England’s Portsmouth Harbor aboard the cruiser Ordzhonikidze. They were visiting on a diplomatic mission, but MI-6, Britain’s intelligence agency, had a mission of its own: They wanted to [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
With an oil baron for a grandfather and a New York governor for a dad, Michael Rockefeller could have slipped easily into a life of riches and leisure. But the heir was a hard-worker with a passion for exploration.
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
A king of the Big Band era, trombonist Glenn Miller and his orchestra charmed the world in the 1930s and 1940s with hits like “Moonlight Serenade” and “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”. After war broke out, Miller enlisted in the Army as an officer at age 38 and boosted morale with his [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
No disappearance is more storied than that of the famous aviator Amelia Earhart. The first woman to fly across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, Earthart was attempting to circumnavigate the globe in her Lockheed Electra when she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left Lae island in the South Pacific [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
On November 24, 1971, a man in a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase handed a note to a stewardess aboard a
Northwest Orient 727 jet liner, bound from Portland to Seattle. The note claimed that inside the case was a bomb, and demanded that $200,000 in unmarked bills and two parachutes be waiting for [...]
Posted by Nick on August 3, 2011 ·
First there were Snakes on a Plane; then there were Snakes on a Train (can you say “straight to DVD”?) Now … you guessed it: Snakes on a car.
Posted by Nick on July 25, 2011 ·
Chinese counterfeiters have had a field-day pumping out knockoffs of Apple Inc’s best-selling iPhones and iPads but one appears to have gone a step further — a near flawless fake Apple Store that even employees believe is the real deal.
The store in Kunming was stumbled upon by a 27-year-old [...]