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Mar 31, 2019

 

Did you know that more and more newlyweds are taking separate honeymoons?  According to a report in the New York Times, many couples are no longer celebrating their first days of wedded bliss watching sunsets together in the Caribbean or sightseeing in Paris.  Instead, they’re booking separate, solo vacations...


Mar 29, 2019

 

Recently 30-year-old Arne Murke and his brother were sailing a 40-foot yacht from Aukland, New Zealand to Brazil when they experienced a motor failure and lost all power.  Suddenly the boat turned to cause the boom to swing around knocking Arne overboard into the ocean. His brother tried to throw him a line and a life...


Mar 28, 2019

 

Germany is known for fast cars, and zee Autobahn, the country's system of seemingly speed-limit-free federal highways.  However, recently a proposal to impose universal speed limits on the Autobahn is causing outrage among car-loving Germans.

There is a movement by the Green Party in Germany to begin restricting the...


Mar 23, 2019

 

Did you hear about the diver who was almost swallowed by a whale?  Rainer Schimpf, a South African dive tour operator was swimming near a bait ball, designed to attract sharks when all of a sudden everything went dark.  A whale had come along and scooped him up along with a mouthful of sardines from the bait ball....


Mar 3, 2019

 

Television in America is turning 75 this year. Visitors to the World’s Fair in New York in 1939 were amazed to see moving pictures and hear sound coming from a small black-and-white screen built into a large wooden box! And then they were stunned to learn this technological marvel could soon be in their own...