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Rare Harry Potter book fetches $19,000 at auction
Written on 11 Mar, 2009 at 8:50 in Featured, Really? | viewed 230 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A first-edition Harry Potter book was sold for about $19,000, according to an auction house in Dallas, Texas. Normal copies of the Harry Potter books go for under $20, unlike the autographed first edition that sold for $19,000. Normal copies of the Harry Potter books go for under $20, unlike the autographed first edition that sold for $19,000. The soft-cover book was one of 200 copies printed and is a rarity compared with later editions of the popular series that were printed in the millions, the Heritage Auction Galleries said. Full Story : CNN.com
Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Credit Union Because of Head Scarf
Written on 10 Mar, 2009 at 20:57 in Featured, Really? | viewed 364 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A Muslim woman was asked to leave her place in line at a credit union in Southern Maryland and be served in a back room because the head scarf she wore for religious reasons violated the institution’s “no hats, hoods or sunglasses” policy, the woman said yesterday. Hijab is the arabic term for the head covering worn by Muslim women. According to Islamic scholarship, hijab is given the wider meaning of modesty, privacy, and morality. Full Story : Washingtonpost
7 millions Brits have math skills below the level of a 11 yr-old
Written on 10 Mar, 2009 at 12:08 in Featured, Really? | viewed 356 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Almost seven million adults in Britain have maths skills below the level of the average 11-year-old, a studyfound. A Government-backed survey suggests that 6.8million adults in England lack the skills expected of children at the end of primary school. The cost of innumeracy to the country has been estimated at £2.4billion a year because those who leave school having failed to master basic maths are more likely to end up jobless. Full Story : Dailymail.co.uk
US Atheism on the rise
Written on 9 Mar, 2009 at 18:42 in Featured, Really? | viewed 324 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The American Religious Identification Survey has released numbers for 2008. According to the survey, fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990. 55% of those who are married had no religious ceremony. 66% say they do not expect to have a religious funeral. The 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher Diagoras is known as the “first atheist”, and strongly criticized religion and mysticism.
National Napping Day: March 9, 2009
Written on 9 Mar, 2009 at 16:39 in Featured, Really? | viewed 202 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
National Napping Day was started back in 1999. William Anthony, a professor at Boston University, decided with his wife that there were too many “health benefits” of napping to ignore, especially following the lost hour over the weekend.
Only one-third of Americans can name three branches of government
Written on 8 Mar, 2009 at 19:21 in Really? | viewed 432 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
One-third, that is roughly 103 million of 305 million Americans that can simply name the three branches of government. US government has judicial, legislative and executive branches. Full Story : Gcsunade.com….
(Continue reading)Craigslist Sued For Promoting Prostitution
Written on 7 Mar, 2009 at 13:20 in Featured, Really? | viewed 356 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A complaint filed against Craigslist by the sheriff of Cook County, Ill, says that while the site does not profit directly from prostitution, the popularity of its erotic services ads is the reason Craigslist is the ninth-most-popular Web site in the country and the reason the site can charge up to $75 for job ads. The sheriff is seeking an injunction to prevent further erotic services ads from being posted on the site, and reimbursement for the more than $100,000 in costs incurred policing prostitution-related crime over the past year. Craiglist is a free online classified advertising service.
(Continue reading)French Boy Stabs Sister Over Nintendo DS
Written on 3 Mar, 2009 at 19:25 in @ a glance, Featured, Really? | viewed 399 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A five year-old boy in the French town of Uckange has stabbed his ten year-old sister with a kitchen knife following an argument over a Nintendo DS, Le Post reports. Full Story : Kotaku.com….
Square Root Day
Written on 3 Mar, 2009 at 10:45 in Featured, Really? | viewed 326 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
Square root day is a humorous holiday celebrated on dates where the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits in the current year. For example, today March 3, 2009 (3/3/09) is a square root day, and the next square root day will be April 4, 2016 (4/4/16). The last such day was five years ago, Feb. 2, 2004, which coincided with Groundhog Day. Ron Gordon, a Redwood City teacher who started a contest meant to get people excited about the event. The winner gets, of course, $339 for having the biggest Square Root Day event. There is a Facebook page for the day.
US Muslims: A thriving society
Written on 2 Mar, 2009 at 20:55 in Featured, Really? | viewed 515 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A report released by Gallup revealed that US Muslims are one of the highly successful groups in America. Muslim Americans, for instance, are among the most highly educated religious groups in the US, second to Jews. The report also say that 43 percent of Muslim-American women hold a college or postgraduate degree, compared with 29 percent of US women overall. Thirty-eight percent of Muslims describe themselves as moderate, with 29 percent saying they are liberal and 25 percent conservative. But they express less satisfaction with community life and a greater sense of worry and stress than other Americans.
Conservatives are biggest consumers of Porn in USA
Written on 28 Feb, 2009 at 13:46 in Featured, Really? | viewed 434 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A new nationwide study of anonymised credit-card receipts finds, that those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption. According to the study, eight of the top 10 pornography consuming states gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year’s presidential election – Florida and Hawaii were the exceptions.
Teen Fired for Calling Job ‘Boring’ on Facebook
Written on 27 Feb, 2009 at 13:12 in Featured, Really? | viewed 509 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A teenager was fired from her job after calling it boring on Facebook. The teen working as an administrator, made the comment about Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex. The 16-year-old was sacked with “immediate effect” after posting the negative comment on the social networking site. Full Story : Fox…..
(Continue reading)Driving or Riding in an Ethanol-Powered Vehicle Could Be Sin: Islamic Scholar
Written on 26 Feb, 2009 at 17:15 in Featured, Nature, Really? | viewed 1,629 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Since ethanol is a form of alcohol, the use of it in the vehicles could be considered a sin, says Saudi scholar Sheikh Mohamed al-Najimi. Sheikh Mohamed, who’s a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, stressed that this opinion was his own, was not a fatwa. A fatwā, in the Islamic faith is a religious opinion on Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar.
The Most Pierced Woman in the World: Elaine Davidson
Written on 26 Feb, 2009 at 16:36 in Featured, Really? | viewed 313 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
With a whopping 6,005 piercings, Elaine Davidson of Edinburgh, Scotland, is the most pierced woman in the world. Davidson was born in Brazil and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She first made the Guinness World Record books in 2000 with 462 piercings: 192 of them in her face! She has since added many more, bringing the total to a whooping 6,005
What if your city were Nuked?
Written on 26 Feb, 2009 at 13:22 in Featured, Really? | viewed 448 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Sydney-based design firm CarlosLabs created a A Google Maps mash-up which shows what nuclear explosions would do to cities all over the world. The mapplet,shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’
Google Ocean: Atlantis ‘found off Africa’ turns out to be boat mapping lines
Written on 21 Feb, 2009 at 6:05 in Really? | viewed 881 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
British aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford sighted a mysterious grid of undersea lines while browsing through Google Earth’s new underwater search tool. The strange pattern was spotted off the western coast of Africa, apparently near one of the possible sites of the legendary island. But the criss-crossing lines, located 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, were today explained by Google as sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor.
Americans Read more Literature
Written on 20 Feb, 2009 at 14:58 in Really? | viewed 199 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
National Endowment for the Arts conducted a study on literary reading by Americans. The study found that for the first time in more than 25 years, Americans are reading more literature. There were 16.6 million more adult readers of literature in 2008. A slight majority of American adults now read literature (113 million) or books (119 million) in any format.
Author of fake Holocaust story is not sorry
Written on 18 Feb, 2009 at 11:36 in Really? | viewed 186 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The author of a discredited Holocaust memoir is not apologizing. Herman Rosenblat admitted to fictionalizing portions of his life story, including how he met his wife. Based on this admission, the publisher of his forthcoming memoir—Angel at the Fence —cancelled plans to print his book.
Saudi Princess Ready to Get Behind Wheel Despite Law Banning Women From Driving
Written on 10 Feb, 2009 at 20:06 in @ a glance, Really? | viewed 223 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The wife of one of Saudi Arabia’s most high profile and richest men said she’s ready to get behind the wheel if women are ever permitted to drive, highlighting again a contentious issue authorities in this conservative desert kingdom prefer to play down. Full Story : FOXNews…..
National Wear Red day
Written on 6 Feb, 2009 at 11:19 in Health, Really? | viewed 233 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Go red for women today!. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has dedicated the first Friday in February as National Wear Red Day. The focus of this day is to take women’s health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness. In 2002, the NHLBI introduced the Red Dress as the national symbol for women and heart disease awareness. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America. Wear red to help support heart disease awareness for women!