On Monday, January 11, Jackie attended the dedication ceremony for a new wax likeness of himself at Madame Tussauds Hollywood in Los Angeles. At the ceremony, Jackie said that he hoped he would be remembered long after he leaves the spotlight. He joked that with a wax figure, he would always be seen as young. Jackie’s wax figures are in museums all over the world and are one of the  [ Read More ]

On this day in 1935, Elvis Presley was born. The man who changed rock and roll forever would have turned 75 years old today had he not passed away in 1977 (unless you’re a conspiracy theorist who thinks the King is still alive, in which case we hope he’s having cake somewhere).

A Celebes Crested Macaque looks back at the Singapore zoo, Axolotl, Angora rabbit, a foal sits in the back seat of a Fiat Uno near Warsaw(Poland), VW Golf crammed with two calves in its boot on an Austrian expressway, a hungry Cuban tree frog is all lit up after swallowing a decorative tree light in West Palm Beach and more.

Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to our list — helping NORAD keep tabs on Santa every Christmas Eve.NORAD’s Santa-tracking dates back to 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad in Colorado Springs accidentally directed readers to call NORAD instead of the “Talk-to-Santa” hotline they were advertising. Embracing the holiday spirit, the folks at NORAD provided callers with Santa’s location according to their radar and have tracked  [ Read More ]

World’s largest snowman was set in 2008 in Bethel, Maine. Olympia SnowWoman, the world’s largest snow(wo)man is created by Jim Mann and his crew at Mt. Mann Jewelers. The SnowWoman stood 122 feet 1 inch (37.21 m) in height, weight: 13,000,000 lbs. of snow, and was named Olympia Snowe. The previous record was also a snowman built in Bethel, Maine, in February 1999. The snowman was named “Angus, King of  [ Read More ]

MAD’s design for the Urbanism\Architecture Shenzhen & Hongkong Bi-city Biennale, the Monster’s Footprint debuted in the Citizen Square of Shenzhen. It is a sunken space shade of a giant footprint, paved by pink EPDM material, functioning as the playground for the citizens in the city center. Shenzhen is a village turned city overnight. Enchanted by the bursting power of economic development, the city center is filled with extensive, and yet  [ Read More ]

World’s Fastest Train(in commercial use, the highest recorded speed is a Maglev train 361 mph) tops out at a speed of over 380 km/h, or over 235 mph, and the ride is surprisingly smooth. The Wuhan-Guangzhou high speed railway, which will shorten travel time from ten hours to three. Traveling from the central city of Wuhan all the way down the south coast, it’s also the longest rail line in  [ Read More ]

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s first album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released on 23 November 2009. Susan Boyle’s first album has become the fast-selling debut album in UK chart history. ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ sold 410,000 copies in its first week, beating previous record holder Leona Lewis. It is also the fourth biggest first week sales for any artist album in chart history, according to the Official Charts  [ Read More ]

Do you want to know a really cool thing you can do with a telescope? Just to let you know, it is not spying on your neighbor 10 houses down the street or trying to look in the bedroom of the gorgeous girl that lives next door. The answer is look at the stars and take pictures of them. Now this can not be done with just a regular telescope.  [ Read More ]

The city of Tel Aviv continued its year-long centennial celebration on Wednesday, with the installation of a sweeping carpet of flowers in the city’s Rabin Square, received as a gift from the city of Brussels. The half-million flowers used to compose the colourful carpet arrived from Belgium on Wednesday morning, after being held-up in the airport overnight due to aircraft problems and bureaucracy. Annette Katz works for the mayor’s office  [ Read More ]