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The legendary leaning tower of Pisa has a new rival in Netherlands and is being challenged as Europe’s most steeply leaning tower. The challenger is located in the northern Dutch town of Bedum and was built in the 12th century.
Dutch geometrician Jacob van Dijk who measured the leaning church tower declared that the Dutch tower was leaning more than the Pisa tower.
The tower of Pisa has lost much of its tilt owing to its restoration works to prevent the tower from collapsing.
At a height of 55.86 meters, Pisa’s tower leans about 4 meters, while Bedum’s tower leans 2.61 meters on its height of 35.7 meters. If both towers were the same height, Bedum would have a greater tilt of 6 cm, Van Dijk argues.
Going by the popularity, even if the church technically tilts more than the tower of Pisa, there is absolutely no chance of Pisa tower losing popularity and Dutch tower gaining the same.
People, meet Derrick Barry. He is a MALE who has imitated the Pop Princess Britney Spears for five years and stunned judges on America’s Got Talent, with his imitation of Britney Spears performing “Toxic.”
David Hasselhoff, one of the judges alongside Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan, even admitting: “I’m questioning my sexuality.”
According to Barry’s MySpace page, he first dressed up as Britney for Halloween in 2003. A few weeks later, Barry attended a taping of The Tonight Show at which Jay Leno had Spears as a guest.
Now I really wonder does he look like Britney or Brit looks like him..
Sculpture by Daniel Firman at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. “At a distance of 18,000 km from the earth, the elephant Wursa could balance on her trunk. The hyper-realist sculpture borrows from the skills of a taxidermist which gives us the opportunity to seesaw between a proven scientific phenomenon and the physical world in perspective”
Cambodians are scourging for rat meat as inflation hits poorer sections of Cambodia although the price of rat meat has quadrupled this year.
The country has witnessed exorbitant inflation at 37% and rat meat is being sold at 5,000 riel ($1.28) from 1,200 riel last year. A kilogram of beef costs much more at 20,000 riel a kg.
A spicy field rat dish with garlic thrown in has become a hot favorite in these hard times for the Cambodians.
If eating rats in this part of the world is amusing, I have learnt that rats are also eaten widely in Thailand, and a state government in eastern India this month encouraged its people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.
Eating rats in India!!! I am petrified. I thought India was supposed to be a land of Hindus and only chicken and mutton was consumed by them. Maybe I am wrong, oh well!!! In our part of the world, we kill them and chuck them out for the vultures to gobble them.
No wonder Ron Weasley’s rat turned into a villain in Wormtail.
Entrepreneur Paul Garlick brought a touch of Gotham City to an East Yorkshire village this week when his £150,000 custom-built Batmobile made its first public appearance.
The 130mph car is one of just three working models and it stunned passers-by when it was road-tested in Holderness.
The vehicle took 18 months to build, is 6.5m (21ft) long and 2.5m (8ft) wide, and has a fibreglass body moulded from the original used in the 1989 Batman film.
