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Today's Fresh Blogs...| A Flying Yacht? |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 6:53 pm |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records |
| short distance world speed records, and has reached over 47 knots (55 mph) in training. Link [Times Online] via gizmodo |
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| Rowing Across the Pacific Alone |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 2:08 am |
| Tags: Pictures, Feats Amp Records, Sports |
| Roz Savage, 39, who rowed alone across the Atlantic Ocean last year, is now trying to do the same thing across the Pacific: Her vessel is a souped-up 24-foot long rowboat named the Brocade after her corporate sponsor, San Jose-based Brocade Communications Systems Inc. […] She won’t be followed by a rescue boat, but will carry a |
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| Giant Toothpick Painting by Saimir Strati |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 1:42 pm |
| Tags: Pictures, Art, Feats Amp Records, Cellar Image |
| Today’s collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day brings us this photo of an artwork-in-progress by Albanian artist Saimir Strati. Albanian painter Saimir Strati works on a horse mosaic using toothpicks at the International Center of Culture. Strati will use around 1,000,000 toothpicks on an 8 square-metre polystyrene board in an |
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| Dog Awaits Return of His Master for 11 Years |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: Animal, Feats Amp Records |
| Akita dog in Japan, set an example for loyalty by waiting patiently for his master to return from work at a railway station. Hachiko did this routine for 11 years every day. In 1924, Hachiko was brought to Tokyo by its master Hidesamuro Ueno, who was a professor in the agricultural department at the University of Tokyo. Hachiko would routinely |
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| World’s Ugliest Woman: Mary Ann Bevan |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 12:37 am |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records, History |
| Meet Mary Ann Bevan, self-proclaimed world’s ugliest woman: Mary Ann Bevans, commonly referred to as ‘The Homeliest Woman in the World’, likely suffered from acromegaly. She was born Mary Ann Webster in London, England in 1874 as one of eight children. She was employed as a nurse and began to display characteristics of acromegaly |
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| Diving From 35 Feet Into 12 Inches of Water |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 4:27 am |
| Tags: Video Clips, Feats Amp Records, Only In Japan |
| Here’s the holy trinity of Internet awesomeness: crazy Japanese TV show, a crazy American who specializes in belly flopping into a shallow pool of water, and YouTube. See Professor Splash jump from a height of 35 feet (10.7 m) into 12" (30 cm) of water: hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via A Welsh View and Gorilla Mask |
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| 59-year-old college football player. |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 10:13 pm |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records, Sports |
| Mike Flynt's biggest regret was getting kicked off his college football team in his senior year -37 years ago. So he checked his eligibility and joined the team once again at Sul Ross State in Texas! He is eight years older than his coach, and has children older than his teammates. “I told him he’s an idiot,” said Jerry Larned, |
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| World’s Largest Helicopters |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 4:47 pm |
| Tags: Pictures, Car Amp Vehicle, Feats Amp Records, Weapons Amp War |
| Aerospaceweb has a really neat article about the 8 largest helicopters in the world. This one above is the Soviet’s Mil Mi-26 which is only the second largest: it can carry payloads up to 44,000 lb (20,000 kg). In the photo above, the helicopter is recovering an American CH-47 Chinook. Link |
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| Photos from 22 Miles Above Sea Level |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 1:59 pm |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records, Space, Gadget |
| A group of regular folks from Alberta, Canada decided to launch a large weather balloon to take high altitude photographs. Here is their description of the project: SABLE-3 was launched on Saturday, August 11th, 2007, at 9:31 AM with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics |
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| Eight-Year-Old Girl Completed Marathon Run Across China |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 1:22 pm |
| Tags: Travel Amp Places, Feats Amp Records, Baby Amp Kid |
| 8-year-old Chinese girl Zhang Huimin has just completed a grueling 55 days, 3,558 km (2,211 mi.) marathon from her hometown of Hainan to Beijing. That’s her father on a motorcycle - apparently, he can’t keep up running with the girl! Link Original Article [in Chinese] - Thanks Jee! Previously on Neatorama: Child Marathon Runners of |
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| Smoker Celebrates 100th Birthday by Lighting Up |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 3:52 am |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records, Medicine, Funny, Odd News |
| A life-long smoker, Winnie Langley just celebrated her 100th birthday by smoking her 170,000th cigarette! Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since. She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced |
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| “King Tooth” Pulled Train with Teeth! |
| Published: September 2, 2007, 1:39 pm |
| Tags: Pictures, Feats Amp Records |
| Rathakrishnan Velu, nicknamed "King Tooth," has set the new world record for heaviest weight pulled with teeth: a seven-coach train weighing 297.1 tonne (655,000 lbs)! "I don’t know what toothpaste he uses but I am sure a lot companies will be looking to endorse their products from Rathakrishnan," said Maximus Ongkili, |
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| World’s Smallest |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 3:01 am |
| Tags: Feats Amp Records, Co Blogging |
| World’s Smallest & Most Wondrous Works of ArtWillard Wigan’s sculptures are so small they can rest on the head of a pin or in the eye of a needle, like his Statue of Liberty sculpture to the left. Wigan [wiki] uses rice and grains of sand and sugar for his sculptures. His artwork are so small that he has to work between |
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| World Record for Snapping Bananas In Half WITH BARE HANDS!!! |
| Published: September 8, 2007, 1:50 am |
| Tags: Video Clips, Feats Amp Records |
| Will wonders never cease? Here’s the world record of number of bananas snapped in half in one minute WITH HIS BARE HANDS!!! OMG!!!!1!!! Chuck Norris would be proud: Hit play or go to Link [Google Video] - via Hey Floyd and mentalfloss |
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| World’s Shortest International Bridge |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 5:36 am |
| Tags: Pictures, Travel Amp Places, Feats Amp Records |
| The island on the left is in Canada, the one on the right is in the USA. Link - via Digg |
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