TV presenter Richard Hammond has told of his terrifying ordeal in the aftermath of the 288mph jet car crash that nearly killed him. The Top Gear presenter spoke of how the crash caused a brain injury which saw him regress to a childlike state and left him in excruciating pain. Hammond, 36, crashed his Vampire car at Elvington airfield, York, while filming for the show on September 20. But in an interview in the Daily Mirror newspaper, he tells of how 33 days later he is ready to go home and is on course to make a 100% recovery - without having undergone surgery. He said: "At first, they said I'd be in hospital for 15 months. Yet here I am ready to go home after five weeks. I'm so bloody lucky. I can't believe it." Surgeons at Leeds General Infirmary had considered drilling a "bore hole" into Hammond's head to drain the blood from his brain to relieve the swelling, but the operation was not deemed necessary. Seeing his family in hospital after the crash also caused him great anguish, while also being a source of great comfort. He described his wife Mindy, 36, as "a rock", adding that she had kept calm despite all the pressures of the situation. It was seeing his daughters Izzy, six, and Willow, three, that caused him the most heartache. The BBC confirmed that Hammond signed a two-year contract before his accident. The deal was reported in Broadcast magazine in September, but a spokeswoman could not say exactly when Hammond signed the contract. The spokeswoman said: "We don't comment on the amounts of individual contracts. I can confirm that Richard Hammond signed a two-year exclusive contract with the BBC. The contract pre-dates the accident.
LONDON (Reuters) - British people rank bottom in energy efficiency versus France, Germany, Italy and Spain, according to a count of average energy wasting actions per week by a UK research group, the Energy Saving Trust, on Monday. Climate change looms ever bigger in the public eye as scientists detail ever stronger evidence of rising temperatures and its effects such as Arctic ice melt. But But it seems the general public are struggling to change everyday habits, the independent group found from a survey of 5,000 Europeans. "The UK is at the bottom of the energy efficiency league compared to (the) other European countries," said Philip Sellwood, chief executive. The wasteful habit the British found it hardest to kick was leaving appliances on standby -- which applied to 71 percent of respondents. Other guilty secrets included boiling more water than needed, leaving electrical chargers plugged in, forgetting to turn lights off and using the car for short journeys. According to the research, Britain was worst out of the five countries at an average 32 energy wasting actions per week, more than double most efficient Germany, at just 14.
British newspapers today broke the astounding story of how Princess Diana wrote that she would be killed in an incident made to look like a car accident ten months before her death.
The princess predicted: “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous.” She said "XXXXXXXXXXX is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”.
The blanked out 'xxxxxxx' is very likely to be MI5/MI6, who also recently did the dirty work of finishing off David Kelly.
When Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler first hit the headlines last year I knew he still had something to say about Diana's death. It was likely that Burrell sought to wrap himself in as much publicity as possible to protect himself against a similar fate.
Of course we've known for years that Diana's death couldn't have been anything but an assassination.
- The unscheduled journey through the symbolic Pont de L'Alma tunnel (an ancient Pagan sacrificial site) took Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed AWAY FROM their intended destination, Dodi's flat.
- Just before the car entered the tunnel every police radio in Paris mysteriously died, preventing a quick response which could have saved Diana's life.
- Just before the car entered the tunnel every security camera in the tunnel mysteriously died, preventing us from ever seeing footage of what caused the crash.
- Eyewitnesses reported snipers and gunfire within the tunnel.
These are just a few snippets from a mountain of evidence that this was an old-school hit.
Diana was killed because she was pregnant with Dodi's child and the British Royal Family didn't want an Arab in their sacred bloodline. Diana herself remarked to reporters that there would be 'a big surprise' from her a few days before her death.
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US Spy Tapes Reveal Diana Was Pregnant
by GORDON THOMAS
EXPLOSIVE tapes on the secret life of Princess Diana will prove that she was pregnant and intended to marry Dodi Al Fayed, it was claimed last night.
American secret agents regularly monitored Diana's conversations and collated 1,000 secret documents using its "spy in the sky", the National Security Agency.
They were obtained by its Echelon satellite surveillance system and contain highly sensitive material including her marriage plans, her views on Prince Philip, who was known to be highly critical of her, and new details of her love affair with James Hewitt. Now, lawyers acting for Mohamed Al Fayed are trying to obtain the tapes through America's Freedom of Information Act.
They hope to present the evidence at Diana's inquest, which is expected to take place next year.
The covert monitoring was controlled from the ultra-secret NSA base at Menwith Hill in the north of England during the last weeks of Diana's affair with Dodi.
A spokesman for Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrods, said: "Mr Al Fayed believes that those intercepts will reveal conversations in which Princess Diana discussed her engagement to Dodi and her pregnancy.
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Of course, this wasn't the only reason. Diana was a painful thorn in the side of the elitists with her ability to take any issue and immediately bring it to the forefront of public attention. In a way she was like David Kelly, a disgruntled former employee who knew too much and had too big a chip on her shoulders to be tolerated.
I look forward to the long-awaited inquest and further revelations from the brave Paul Burrell to further destroy the establishment media's wild and unsusbstantiated theory that Diana's death was an accident caused by a drunk driver.
Keep your eyes open and turn the television off.
Paul Joseph Watson.
Diana murder plot name in letter revealed to be Prince Charles
London Mirror
PRINCESS Diana believed Prince Charles wanted her killed in an accident when she was plagued by anxiety and feared for her safety.
She told of her worries in her now infamous note which she handed to butler Paul Burrell as "insurance" on the day she wrote it in October 1996, 10 months before she died in a Paris car crash.
Burrell censored the note when he disclosed its existence in his book last year by blanking the words "my husband" from the text. The full text, revealed for the first time, now reads: "This particular phase of my life is the most dangerous - my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure & serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry." The Daily Mirror - not Burrell - has decided to publish the blanked out name because it will inevitably
appear in the public domain. Burrell is prepared to hand the note to the coroner probing the deaths of Diana and boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed whose inquests open today. By bringing the text to light he is honouring a long-standing promise to co-operate fully with the inquiries. Speaking at his home in Farndon, Cheshire, Burrell - known by Diana as her "rock" - said yesterday: "This matter has to be handled with great sensitivity and I have genuine concerns about that. "I reproduced only a portion of that letter in my book to provide further force to the argument that an inquest must be held.
"To that end, the document has fulfilled its main purpose.
"I'll do what I've always said I'll do, and provide the coroner with every possible assistance where the information I know is relevant to his investigations."
Royal coroner Michael Burgess has already written to Burrell asking for the document to be handed over for examination.
The former butler is happy for Mr Burgess to see the entire contents. He is due to meet his lawyers this week and will then be questioned about the correspondence. No decision over whether the letter will be regarded as evidence will be made until the coroner has viewed its contents.
A source said: "Mr Burgess will take nothing on face value, and he'll question Mr Burrell very closely over its contents and how it came to be in his possession. It will be a matter handled with great sensitivity and care." Mr Burgess has yet to decide what witnesses and evidence will be deemed admissable at the full inquests. But Burrell is widely expected to be a key witness. The sensational development once again puts Charles's relationship with his companion Camilla Parker Bowles in the spotlight. It again focuses attention on Diana's anxieties over her ex-husband in the year before her death. It also renews attention on the conspiracy theories swirling round Diana's death in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris. These theories were fuelled by the haunting similarities between her own prediction and the 1997 crash. Speculation raged over the the blanked-out name in the letter published in Burrell's book, A Royal Duty, which was exclusively serialised in the Mirror. At the time, the passage appeared as: "********* is planning 'an accident' in my car... in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry."
Burrell had instructed his publishers Penguin to replace the word "him" with "Charles" to protect the prince's interests.
He said in his book: "I will never say what those blacked-out words say... deciding what to do with it (the letter) has been a source of much soul-searching.
"I agree that it may be futile in what it achieves because it can do no more than provide yet another question mark. But if that question mark leads to an inquest... it will have achieved something."
Burrell has revealed that at the time the letter was written Diana was plagued by insecurities and even believed her Kensington Palace apartments were bugged. Her marriage had ended only two months before. Though she had negotiated an estimated £17million settlement, the princess was devastated at losing her HRH title. Charles had admitted conducting an affair with Camilla, saying he committed adultery only after his marriage became "irretrievably broken down, us both having tried".
Today, Camilla is the prince's accepted companion. She lives with him at his London home, Clarence House, and his Gloucestershire home, Highgrove. She has also accompanied him on semi-official engagements.
Diana's friends have always said that in the months leading up to her death she had resolved her differences with Charles and was looking forward to them becoming friends. Burrell said in the Mirror the letter provided "evidence of the state of the princess's mind in the final months of her life".
He admitted it increased huge public interest which was "crying out for a full examination of the facts".
Mr Burgess announced that an inquest would be opened into Diana's death two months after Burrell's sensational book was published.
The hearing will open at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, in Westminster, Central London. An inquest on Dodi, who lived at Oxted, Surrey, will open in the afternoon at Reigate. Mr Burgess is expected to announce the scope of his hearings and the course his investigation will take before full inquests are held later in the year.
The coroner will first have to digest a 6,000-page police report and secret evidence from the French inquiry into the princess's death held by judge Herve Stephan. First evidence is not likely to be heard before the autumn.
Diana, 36, and Dodi died in the early hours of August 31, 1997, when a Mercedes driven by chauffeur Henri Paul careered out of control and smashed into a concrete pillar. The 1999 French inquiry said the crash was an accident caused by chauffeur Paul being high on drink and drugs.
Dodi's father, Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, believes his son and the princess were murdered, and has spent thousands of pounds pursuing his own investigations. Diana's family do not believe the theories. Her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, accepted the French inquiry findings "without reservation".
Diana's lost ear-ring 'found in car' say police
The wreckage
An ear-ring worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, at the time of her fatal car crash in Paris is reported to have been found by police in the wreckage of the vehicle. The ear-ring was originally believed to have been lost in the aftermath of the accident on August 31. The Press Association is reporting police sources as saying the ear-ring has been discovered in the Mercedes' dashboard by scientific experts at a laboratory near Paris. The Princess died alongside her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul in the accident in a tunnel in central Paris. The criminal investigation into the cause of the crash is continuing.
Diana: Secret Documents Revealed
48 Hours Investigates
Truth About Death Of Princess Diana
April 21, 2004
48 Hours reports on confidential police documents and new forensic clues about the death of Princess Diana. (CBS/AP) Diana’s tragic death
Family and associates of Princess Diana expressed anger Al Fayed
(CBS) In life, it was Princess Diana’s vibrancy and glamour that captured the world’s attention. Today, it is the mystery surrounding her death. Correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. “She was convinced she was going to be killed,” says Diana’s old friend, Argentinean businessman Roberto Deverik, who recalls Diana often speaking of murderous plots against her. “She said, ‘When it's not convenient anymore, I will-- they will blow me in a car or in a helicopter.’" The questions and puzzles remain nearly seven years after Diana’s tragic death in a Paris tunnel. Billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed has relentlessly accused the British government of orchestrating the death of Princess Diana, and his son, Dodi. Al Fayed, who has refused numerous requests to talk to 48 Hours, believes that his son and Diana were killed in order to prevent the princess from marrying his son, a Muslim, and having his child. Conspiracy theories continued because the details of the French probe into the accident were never made public. But 48 Hours has obtained a report produced by the French government that was never made public until now. The report contains thousands of pages of confidential police documents, scientific analysis and images that tell what really happened to Princess Diana, beginning with the night she died. ”As I approached the tunnel, I saw smoke in the middle of the tunnel,” recalls Frederick Maillez, a doctor who told French authorities that he was driving through the Alma Tunnel in Paris that night -- moments after the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed crashed into a pillar. “I went to the wreckage to see what was going on inside,” says Maillez, who tended to the seriously injured princess after the crash. “I can tell you her face was still beautiful. She didn’t have any injuries, main injury on her face. She was unconscious. She didn’t speak at all.” Eerie black and white photos, taken just moments after the crash, have never been shown until now. Part of the official report, they were confiscated from the paparazzi who were chasing the couple that night. "You could absolutely tell it was her. She was a pretty woman, and even a few hours before she died, she’s still pretty,” says lawyer Virginie Bardet, who saw the confidential French dossier when she defended three of the seven photographers who were initially accused of causing the accident. “The investigation is important,” she says. Family and associates of Princess Diana expressed anger Thursday at the use of the photos taken moments after a car accident. Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, said he was sickened by the action. "Lord Spencer and his family are shocked and sickened by CBS' actions," said a brief statement released by the family. Outrage focused on two back and white photos taken by paparazzi at the scene, showing an unconscious Diana being treated by a doctor as she lay slumped in the back of a car. They were included in a confidential French investigators' file on the accident, but no major media outlet had previously run pictures of the injured princess. Britain's tabloid newspapers gave the story prominent, outraged coverage on Thursday. CBS News released an official statement Wednesday: Tonight's (21) edition of 48 Hours Investigates is a one-hour report on Princess Diana that addresses the circumstances surrounding her death almost seven years ago. Included in the broadcast is information from a 4,000-page confidential French government report on Diana's death obtained by 48 Hours Investigates. In addition to important information that dispels many of the rumors and allegations surrounding her death, photocopies of photos from the French government report taken at the scene of the crash also will be included in the broadcast. These photocopies are placed in journalistic context -- an examination of the medical treatment given to Princess Diana just after the crash -- and are in no way graphic or exploitative. The French investigation is clear: The crash was an accident, and not the fault of the photographers or foreign intelligence agents. Instead, it was the fault of Henri Paul, the driver of Diana’s car, who was impaired by alcohol and prescription drugs. Paul, who was driving at nearly twice the speed limit, nicked a Fiat Uno, lost control of the car and smashed into a pillar. French authorities, however, were wrong if they thought their account of the crash would put the matter to rest. This past January, the British government opened its own investigation into the accident. One claim that Al Fayed has made is that Paul wasn’t drunk at all that night – but that the French switched the blood samples either by accident or on purpose. 48 Hours provided the forensic data from the French dossier to Dr. Robert Forrest, one of England’s leading forensic toxicologists, to see if he could find any evidence of a mistake or a cover-up. “This is the first time I have seen these data and it has been absolutely fascinating,” says Forrest. The dossier documents that multiple tests were conducted on blood, hair and tissue. Paul’s body was also photographed and identified by an ankle tag, #2147 – the same number listed on the samples. “There is nothing in the trail of evidence, which suggests there is anything funny about the way in which the samples have been taken,” says Forrest, who adds he didn’t see any sign of a conspiracy. Not only do the tests indicate three times the legal limit of alcohol in Paul’s system at the time of the accident, Forrest says, they also indicate an alarming amount of various prescription drugs: “Let me put it this way. If I knew that I was going to be driven by someone in that condition, I would not get into the car with them. No way.” This evidence disproves Al Fayed's allegations and proves that there is no question that Paul was drunk. But was he paid by British intelligence services to help kill Princess Diana? And what about Al Fayed’s claim that the princess was killed because she was pregnant? This past January, The London Mirror reported that just months before her death, she had written a note saying, “My husband is planning an accident in my car – brake failure and serious injury.” How real were her fears? Did someone tamper with the Mercedes to make it appear like an accident? 48 Hours took a similar model Mercedes and the analysis contained in the French report to Murray MacKay, one of Europe’s most prominent vehicle-safety experts. MacKay says French investigators examined every component of the crashed Mercedes, particularly the brakes, to determine if either a mechanical failure or deadly tampering caused the accident. “I think they did a very thorough job,” says MacKay. “There was nothing wrong with the car at all … the driver was drunk. He was going excessively fast and couldn’t cope.” But the French dossier still raises questions, especially about Paul, the driver who was also chief of security for Mohamed Al Fayed’s Ritz Hotel. We found documents that reveal a number of significant bank deposits in French francs made by Paul, beginning nine months before the crash. French investigators were unable to pinpoint the exact source of the mysterious money, but the dossier reveals that they searched Paul’s home and office, interviewed his friends and associates, and analyzed his phone records. They found no evidence of a conspiracy – even though there was a theory that Paul was a security services informant. “He could have been that, too. But they don’t pay that much money,” says author Tom Bower, who wrote an extensive biography of Mohamed Al Fayed. Bower says Al Fayed would regularly carry large amounts of cash to pay employees and others: “He was a man who handed out, on his own admission, $100,000 pounds a week, sometimes in cash.” The cash was often a bonus, but Bower says that Al Fayed also paid his security men to conduct surveillance of certain guests who stayed at his Ritz Hotel: “He presents himself as such a warm, bubbly, warm, lovable Arab uncle. But in fact, that he was a man who was rather sinister and dangerous. I mean, he was a great friend and a great enemy.” Bower says that Princess Diana, who knew Al Fayed through her father, had also come to rely on him. “She was a lonely woman. He is a terrific seducer of people if he wants to be,” says Bower. “And he gave her what she wanted.” Since her death, Al Fayed has made outrageous claims about his friendship with the princess. But the most controversial is his assertion that Diana was pregnant with his grandchild, which he said in an interview with ABC News last fall. Al Fayed's claims were bolstered by photographs of Diana that show a noticeable bulge. The details of Diana’s autopsy have been a closely guarded secret, but 48 Hours contacted Robert Thompson, who was there. “Any death within the royal family, that was referred to the coroner, would come to us,” he says. And what about claims that Diana was pregnant at the time of her death? Was there any reason to believe that? “The pathologist spoke to me. And he was closer to me than we are to one another, and said to me and to the room at large, ‘Well, she wasn’t pregnant,’” says Thompson. “He divided the womb, looked inside, and was quite certain that this lady in this instance was not pregnant.” And curiously, Al Fayed never mentioned the phone call from Diana about the pregnancy until nearly five years after her death. “He constructed a complete fantasy out of the last hours of Diana’s death and everything else," says Bower. "Completely rubbish.” But what about the photographs that allegedly show a pregnant Princess? They were taken even before she started dating Dodi. Princess Diana was hounded by paparazzi the summer before she died. Photos of Diana were taken by James Andanson, a successful French celebrity photographer. But he found himself in the middle of the French investigation six months after Princess Diana died. Gaskon Sipagholu and his wife, Phyllis, ran the Sipa photo agency in Paris. Andanson was one of their stars. “I never saw in my life, a photographer like him, never. He was working all the time and he was getting very good money,” says Sipagholu. “He was making about $500,000 a year, even more, from his photographs.” Andanson had a chateau in the Loire valley in central France, an apartment in Paris, and drove an expensive BMW. But what brought him to the attention of French authorities was another car he owned: a white Fiat Uno. Was this the same Fiat Uno that was sideswiped by the Mercedes in the tunnel the night Diana died? “It was our investigators, not the French police, who found the Fiat Uno. It was found in a garage in Paris and traced to paparazzi named James Andanson,” says John McNamara, Al Fayed’s former security chief, on the Al Fayed documentary. Al Fayed and McNamara are convinced that some of the paparazzi, and possibly the driver of the white Fiat Uno, were MI-6 agents whose mission was to stop the announcement of the forthcoming engagement. As the car carrying Princess Diana raced into the Paris tunnel, it sideswiped a slow-moving white vehicle. Paint on the Mercedes and debris on the roadway confirm it was a Fiat Uno. But despite a massive search, neither the car nor driver was ever found. Conspiracy theorists believe the driver deliberately caused the crash as part of a plan to kill Princess Diana. And the charge was credible enough that the lead French investigator, Jean Claude Mullez, questioned Andanson. Mullez says that finding the driver of the Fiat Uno has been a challenge. “Andanson wasn’t in Paris,” he says through a translator. “He told me his timetable, we checked it out and found it to be accurate. We determined that he was not in Paris that night.” What’s more, Mullez says, his investigators found Andanson’s car on blocks inoperable. Is it possible that Andanson’s car was the car that was involved in the accident the night that Diana died? “Absolutely impossible," says Mullez. The probe into Andanson and his white Fiat Uno should have stopped there, but three months later, Andanson got into his BMW, drove to the post office to mail a letter, and was never seen again. Hundreds of miles south of Andanson’s home, a farmer discovered a BMW ablaze in a remote forest. An autopsy determined that the driver was Andanson. Two months later, the mystery surrounding his death only deepened. According to Al Fayed’s documentary, three masked men broke into Andanson’s office in Paris and shot the security guard. The burglars spent three hours ransacking the office. Some people at the photo agency actually thought the burglars were from the French security services. But 48 Hours’ investigation led to a very different conclusion. While three gunmen did break into the SIPA photo agency in Paris and a night watchman was shot, the owners of the agency say the thieves were not in search of Andanson’s work. They left that untouched, but they were looking for compromising photos of a French celebrity. As it turns out, Andanson’s mysterious death was not the work of intelligence agents seeking to keep him quiet, but that of a deeply troubled man. “He committed suicide,” says Sipagholu. “This is 100 percent, I am sure.” French investigators found evidence that Andanson had purchased gas in a can at a station the day of his death and that he sent a letter to his old friends, requesting that, from that day on, they send his royalty checks to his wife. However, Al Fayed continues to promote the idea of a murder plot rather than accept the unacceptable - that his son and his employees may have been in part responsible for the death of the beloved princess. “He has a remarkable self interest in maintaining the fiction because he, in the end, is protecting his own reputation and his own culpability in causing the crash,” says Bower. When Princess Diana left the Paris Ritz hotel owned by Al Fayed, it was, after all, his head of security, a drunk Henri Paul, who was behind the wheel. And it was his son, Dodi, who concocted the crazy plan to evade the paparazzi. “I think Mohammed is the architect, the master disseminator, the perpetuator, the fantasist extraordinaire who started this whole ludicrous idea that she was murdered,” says Bower. There will be always be those who wonder. But for French lawyer Virginie Bardet, the trail ends in the tunnel. “The investigation, it’s not to answer all the question, it’s to know why did Lady Diana and Dodi al Fayed died. And this question is answered,” says Bardet. “It’s clear. We know why this Mercedes had an accident. It was because the driver.”
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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body Pierce Bronsnan started his career at the circus as a fire eater The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime The earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner Someone on Earth reports seeing a UFO every three minutes You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark A blue whale’s aorta ( the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl Through.
What is….
“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death” Harold Wilson “ Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”….Dorothy Bernard “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”… Eddie Rickenbacker
Take Note:
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who ever tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it”.. Oprah Winfrey
Smiling uses 17 facial muscles, improves your immune system and reduces the amount of stress hormones released into your body. On top of that, people will always relate quicker to a person who is smiling than one who is not! I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”…. Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Who invented the Safety Pin
In 1849 engineer Walter Hunt was trying to figure out a way he would be able to afford to pay of his £15 debt. Whilst pondering this problem hw was twisting a piece of wire, when suddenly he realised he had just invested the first safety pin.! He had his new invention patented on 10th April 1849 but decided it wasn’t a very good invention so sold his patent soon after for £400. Throughout his life Hunt also invented numerous everyday items including a knife sharpener and ice ploughs, however apart from the safety pin, Hunt’s most notable invention was in 1834 qhwn he invented the first ever eye pointed needle sewing machine. Hunt abandoned this invention though as he believed it would result in unemployment, which led to Elias Howe patenting a reinvented version of the machine in 1846.
Trivia
1. Do identical twins have the same finger print? 2. One year is a dogs life is equal to how many human years? 3. Do Strawberries or Oranges contain more Vitamin C? 4. How many years did it take to build the Taj Mahal? 5. What is Barbie’s full name? 6. How many bones are there in the human head?
What they have to say:
C.S. Lewis. “Aim at heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get nothing.” Goldie Horn: “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” William Blake: “Truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.” Mark Twain: “Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Vlade Divac: “We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.” Brad Pitt: “Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.”
Happy Birthday: 2nd October: Graham Greene and Sting 3rd October: Gwen Stefani and Tommy Lee 4th October: Louis X and Alicia Silverstone 5th October: Bob Geldof and Kate Winslet 6th October: George Westinghouse 7th October: Simon Cowell and Rachael McAdams 8th October: Chevy Chase and Sigourney Weaver Feeling Seedy?
Scientists from the Millenium Seed Bank have managed to successfully resurrect three 200 year old seeds found in a Dutch merchants notebooks in the National Archives. The seeds were originally brought to Britain in the time of George III from South Africa. “They had been kept under poor conditions.” Said Matt Daws, a seed ecologist with the Millennium Seed Bank. “They’d been in a ship for a year, certainly for months, coming back from the Cape, then they’d been kept in the Tower of London for a number of years; only in the last 10 years have they been in controlled conditions. So I didn’t expect any of them to germinate,” he told the BBC News website, “ and the three that did really are tough seeds.” Recently scientists in the US successfully germinated lotus seeds which had been carbon-dated as 500 years old, and an Israeli Team claims to have been successful in growing a date palm from a 2,000 year old seed.
Tough Times
A homeless man in Florada jumped from a 50ft bridge into a river after a $20 bank note blew out of his hand. “Mark Giorgio, 47, of Palmetto, leapt into the mile-wide Manatee River and swan 100 yards to reclaim his money, reports the Herald Tribune. He was fished from the river and taken to shore by a passing Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission boat. “I got my money back, hell yeah.” A soaking wet Giorgio said as paramedics checked his pulse. : Twenty bucks is a lot of money when you’re broke.” Giorgio said he lost the bill – worth about 10 pounds and.50 pence while counting as he walked across the bridge. He suffered a couple of cuts and refused medical treatment after his jump.
British people most wasteful in EU
