As real estate ads go, Rocky Bar’s is a browser-stopper.
“Always wanted a ghost town?” it asks. “What a way to amaze your friends and family! The entire town of Rocky Bar, Idaho, is for sale, and what a ‘ghoulish’ deal it is.”
Google Maps just released a new feature that lets you actually look around the street. Seems to only be working in major cities for now.
Hiroyuki Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on May 22, becoming the oldest Everest climber.
The search for life around the universe will now take place around the clock
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute plans to have 42 radio astronomy dishes up and running in northern California by the end of 2007, which will enable it to scan the heavens for alien radio waves on a continuous basis
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A Doncaster BUS driver has been fired from his job of 17 years after arriving at a bus stop and then leaving it two minutes early!!
James Higgs in UK has created a petition to Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister to prevent Scientology becoming accepted as a religion in the UK. The petition has been accepted, and is live on the Number 10 Downing Street website for people to sign. This being the case there is a good chance this will work.
The official death toll was recorded as 1,746 people, but that was only an estimate, because the survivors had already begun to bury victims in mass graves, and many terrified survivors had fled corpse-filled villages and were hiding in the forest. This bizarre story discusses what happened and how it is being prevented from happening again.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean. Estimated value: $500 million.
Some of the most beautiful photos I have ever seen.