Tornado Wedding

Caleb James Pence and his bride-to-be Candra refused to let a tornado delay their wedding vows at their ceremony near Harper, Kansas, USA.



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The Alpine Finger Wrestling Championships

Think alpine sports and you'll probably think of skiing and snowboarding, but there's another alpine sport that doesn't get the same coverage - Alpine Finger Wrestling. The 35th edition of the annual Alpine Finger Wrestling Championships took place in the Bavarian region of Schnaitsee, Germany recently - with a handful of winners across the weight divisions thrilling the highly enthusiastic crowd.

The sport began when the art of finger wrestling was used as a method of settling disputes in the Alps back in the 17th century. But today, in 2012, finger wrestling is a sport in its own right. Well, in Bavaria at least.

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Mo'ynaq - Graveyard Of Ships In The Desert

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Many have visited an abandoned city and wondered what catastrophic event could have caused such an exodus from a metropolis once so evidently thriving. Yet these cities are usually hundreds if not thousands of years old, the everyday clamor and cry of civilization just an echo.

Visit Mo'ynaq in Uzbekistan, however, and you can see apocalypse right here, right now. It looks like a scene from a science fiction disaster movie: big ships adrift in the desert.

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Adventures Of The League Of Steam - 'Musical Miscreants'

In this adventure Crackitus, JayAre and Jasper investigate a client's home for paranormal activity. While there they encounter a trio of happy haunts intent on making mischief for the League.



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The Most Electrifying Lightning Photography

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These hair-raising photographs demonstrate fantastic examples of lightning photography. Hopefully one of these them will hit you with a bolt of inspiration!

Salt Made From Tears

The latest product range from Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, Salt made from Tears, has just launched. The salt is collected from humans experiencing a range of emotions, and in various situations. You can pick up salt made from: tears of sorrow, tears shed while sneezing, tears shed while chopping onions, tears of laughter, and tears of anger.

Max - CCTV

The future of CCTV. Watch what you do.



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15 Stunning Pictures Of Starfish Sunbathing

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Starfish belong to a beach vacation like sandcastles and sunburn. They're not fish, of course, but rather close cousins of sand dollars and sea urchins. Just the sight of these stellar sea creatures is enough to excite even the most jaded of beachgoers. Plus, with their knack of showing up in the most romantic spots, they seem to be the perfect gauge for which beaches are the most scenic.

Here are some stunning pictures of starfish sunbathing.

Whales Have A Sensory Organ Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen

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It's possible that whales can sense things that no other living creatures can. Scientists have discovered a grapefruit-sized mass of vessels and nervous tissues located in whales' chins, and they believe it's an entirely new kind of sensory organ. It's possible the organ is what allows these massive creatures to eat using a lightning-fast mouth movement called 'lunge feeding.'

A Flock Of Seagulls

A flock of seagulls singing 'A Flock Of Seagulls.'
An advertisement for Cape Cod potato chips.



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14 Amazing Photos Of The SpaceX Dragon Docking

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The Dragon has landed! Photos of yesterday's historic, first-ever docking of a private space craft with the International Space Station. The Dragon was captured by a giant robot arm, operated by American astronaut Don Pettit and Dutch astronaut André Kuipers.

Watch Documentary

Watching documentaries is always a fun and educational way of passing your time. But for a documentary film to be interesting, it must be relevant to your topic of interest. Thanks to a website called Watch Documentary, you can now browse countless documentaries online according to their topic.

Watch Documentary is a free to use website that includes links to documentaries, sorted categorically, and hosted at various places online such as YouTube. You will find all sorts of topics ranging from globalization to mystery. Simply click on a topic that you are interested in to get started.

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News Reporter Caught Faking Sandstorm After Missing Event

Romanian news reporter Adrian Boioglu was left red faced after he was caught faking a sand storm live on TV after turning up too late to capture the real thing. The bungling reporter convinced an assistant to stand just outside the camera shot and kick sand towards his direction. He was caught out however when a cheeky, or shockingly bad, cameraman let those watching at home in on the secret.



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That's Wrong!

A motivated Sioux chef?

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Is Double Dipping Dangerous?

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Remember the scene from Seinfeld where George Costanza is standing in front of the buffet table at a funeral reception, snacking on chips and dip. An onlooker spies him dipping a chip, taking a small bite, and then going for more dip. How dangerous is that?

Paul Dawson, a professor at Clemson University, decided to make a study of it, using wheat crackers with dips of various consistencies. He and his fellow researchers asked participants to bite part of a cracker, dunk it for three seconds into a tablespoon of dip, and then do the same thing with a fresh cracker. Dawson and company then checked the dip for traces of bacteria. The results found that double dipping added almost ten thousand bacteria to the dips.

Amazing Coating For Bottles' Interiors Lets Ketchup Flow Like Water

LiquiGlide, developed by a team at MIT's Varanasi Research Group, is a surface coating that liberates the notoriously non-Newtonian fluid ketchup from its glass- or plastic-walled prison.



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Friday Cartoon By Mark Anderson

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Mark Anderson is a professional cartoonist from the Chicago area. His cartoons have been published in Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Woman's World and the Saturday Evening Post, to mention just a few. Among his clients are GM, General Electric, FedEx, Microsoft, and IBM.

What Exactly Is Quicksand?

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Quicksand is a staple hazard of adventure movies, TV shows and video games. Whenever a minor character needs to be killed off quickly, the hero needs someone to rescue, or danger needs to be introduced without calling the villain in, quicksand is there to fulfill the task and swallow an explorer whole. But what exactly is quicksand?

The Sick Kitten (1903)

A century before Rolf Harris and 'Animal Hospital', audiences had more than their fair share of films about sickly pets, brave dogs and assorted animals in peril. Here, cinema pioneer G. A. Smith's tale features two under-aged vets and a feline patient.

'The Sick Kitten' is interesting for more than its cute factor. It was possibly the first film to use a close-up shot that was not motivated by someone staring down a microscope or ogling through a keyhole.



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10 Facts You Might Not Know About Star Trek: Voyager

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The fourth Star Trek series, Voyager, told the story of a ship and its crew hurled to the opposite side of the galaxy. At the best possible speed, it would take 75 years for them to return home - if they completed the journey at all. From 1995 to 2001, we watched their tales of comradeship, courage and inventiveness. Here are ten things you might not know about Star Trek: Voyager.