While Bates was away, Alexander Achenbach, who refers to himself as the Prime Minister of Sealand, along with several German and Dutch compatriots, staged an armed takeover of the facility. They held Bates’s so
An all but faultless performance but for the acoustic section of her show, where the star was forced to briefly stop playing the guitar, saying: "My hand has frozen in a weird cramp... this is so embarrassing... its like performing with a claw. No one rel...
When the researchers examined the fetus mummy using a radiograph, they saw a fetal skeleton that was not fully connected or articulated, which means that some of the bones were not in the exact same position to each other as they likely were when the fetus was alive. They were not able t...
When the Americans came to visit us, we had a welcome party for them at a friend's place. That friend had a dog, and at some point he gave the dog a command in German. The dog obeyed, and one of the American kids asks how we managed to teach German to the dog. He wasn’t...
Participants in this study highlighted the importance of implementing more authoritarian anti-FW laws and imposing monetary fines to stop extravagance at weddings and FW in hospitality. For example, a journalist launched the Clean Your Plate campaign in China, which led to bottom-up societal pressure...
The complex food laws of the Middle East have more to do with distinguishing your group from neighboring groups than health concerns or sacred scriptures. Strange Food doesn't make it onto this list just because it is unpopular. Some people hate broccoli. So what? Weird foods get on this ...
The Netherlands were cranking out more composers than the rest of Europe rolled in together, spreading the gospel of polyphonic music, so it was the right time and place to be a skilled copyist and illuminator, and as musicians spread outward into the European courts, so did Alamire’s work...
14. "The options when ordering food — I thought it was a TV joke! I feel naughty asking to swap chips for mash but you guys can request pretty much anything!" —u/Bizzle_B "My friend from the Netherlands described his visit to the US as the 'land of endless choices,' which is ...