WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CHEWING GUM

While you may think that the world’s most expensive piece of chewing gum is strictly a collector’s item and in an odd way, not really gum at all, you would only be partly correct. If you’re interested in paying top dollar for a piece of gum, you will want it for only a collector’s item and it is real, true, bona fide chewing gum. And to prove it further, it’s already been chewed! Sound like something you’re interested in?

In 2004 many people took advantage of eBay and other people’s vulnerabilities by placing chewing gum up for sale that they claimed pop star Britney Spears herself chewed on. By simply typing in ‘gum’ or ‘Britney Spears’ into eBay, you would be presented with many different wads of gum, all crumpled and chewed, and all alongside the seller’s story of how they came to be the proud owner of someone else’s used gum. Why these pieces of gum continued to sell, with nothing but the seller’s word, was beyond anyone but they typically sold for approximately $50 - $100 a piece.

One seller however, made history books and quite a profit as selling one of these pieces of gum, which ended up being the world’s most expensive piece of chewing gum. His gum, complete with teeth marks and all, sold for a whopping $14,000! However, he may not have made such a profit after all. The price was only so high because he kept increasing the bid on himself!!!

Michael Jackson, 'King of Pop,' dead at 50

LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him.

"It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known," his brother Jermaine said. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in high-profile cases.

Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

His 1982 album "Thriller" — which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" — is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.

At the time of his death, Jackson was rehearsing hard for what was to be his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows at a London arena, with the first set for July 13.

As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson's heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York's Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.

"No joke. King of Pop is no more. Wow," Michael Harris, 36, of New York City, read from a text message a friend had sent him. "It's like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died."

The public first knew him as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Ind. Among their No. 1 hits were "I Want You Back," "ABC" and "I'll Be There."

He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his backward-gliding moonwalk, his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched singing, punctuated with squeals and titters. His single sequined glove, tight, military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses were trademarks, as was his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance.

"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones, who produced "Thriller." "He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him."

Jackson ranked alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. He united two of music's biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie, and Jackson's death immediately evoked comparisons to that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.

As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure — a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life. His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He often wore a germ mask while traveling, kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions, and surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, a storybook playland filled with toys, rides and animals. The tabloids dubbed him "Wacko Jacko."

"It seemed to me that his internal essence was at war with the norms of the world. It's as if he was trying to defy gravity," said Michael Levine, a Hollywood publicist who represented Jackson in the early 1990s. He called Jackson a "disciple of P.T. Barnum" and said the star appeared fragile at the time but was "much more cunning and shrewd about the industry than anyone knew."

Jackson caused a furor in 2002 when he playfully dangled his infant son, Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin while a throng of fans watched from below.

In 2005, he was cleared of charges he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003. He had been accused of plying the boy with alcohol and groping him, and of engaging in strange and inappropriate behavior with other children.

The case followed years of rumors about Jackson and young boys. In a TV documentary, he acknowledged sharing his bed with children, a practice he described as sweet and not at all sexual.

Despite the acquittal, the lurid allegations that came out in court took a fearsome toll on his career and image, and he fell into serious financial trouble.

Michael Joseph Jackson was born Aug. 29, 1958, in Gary. He was 4 years old when he began singing with his brothers — Marlon, Jermaine, Jackie and Tito — in the Jackson 5. After his early success with bubblegum soul, he struck out on his own, generating innovative, explosive, unstoppable music.

The album "Thriller" alone mixed the dark, serpentine bass and drums and synthesizer approach of "Billie Jean," the grinding Eddie Van Halen solo on "Beat It," and the hiccups and falsettos on "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'."

The peak may have come in 1983, when Motown celebrated its 25th anniversary with an all-star televised concert and Jackson moonwalked off with the show, joining his brothers for a medley of old hits and then leaving them behind with a pointing, crouching, high-kicking, splay-footed, crotch-grabbing run through "Billie Jean."

The audience stood and roared. Jackson raised his fist.

By then he had cemented his place in pop culture. He got the plum Scarecrow role in the 1978 movie musical "The Wiz," a pop-R&B version of "The Wizard of Oz," that starred Diana Ross as Dorothy.

During production of a 1984 Pepsi commercial, Jackson's scalp sustains burns when an explosion sets his hair on fire.

He had strong follow-up albums with 1987's "Bad" and 1991's "Dangerous," but his career began to collapse in 1993 after he was accused of molesting a boy who often stayed at his home. The singer denied any wrongdoing, reached a settlement with the boy's family, reported to be $20 million, and criminal charges were never filed.

Jackson's expressed anger over the allegations on the 1995 album "HIStory," which sold more than 2.4 million copies, but by then, the popularity of Jackson's music was clearly waning, even as public fascination with his increasingly erratic behavior was growing.

Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994, and they divorced in 1996. Later that year, Jackson married Deborah Rowe, a former nurse for his dermatologist. They had two children together: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince Michael, and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.

Cardiac arrest is an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. It can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.

Billboard magazine editorial director Bill Werde said Jackson's star power was unmatched. "The world just lost the biggest pop star in history, no matter how you cut it," Werde said. "He's literally the king of pop."

Jackson's 13 No. 1 one hits on the Billboard charts put him behind only Presley, the Beatles and Mariah Carey, Werde said.

"He was on the eve of potentially redeeming his career a little bit," he said. "People might have started to think of him again in a different light."

Olympic Gold Medalist Falls to Her Death

Karine Ruby, the first women to ever win a gold medal in Alpine Snowboarding at the 1998 Nagano, Japan Olympics, has died in a tragic mountain climbing accident in France.

According to reports from the AFP (Associated French Press), Ruby and a group of climbers were mountaineering in the Mont Blanc range near Chamonix, France. The five climbers were tethered together when the top climber fell into a crevasse, pulling Ruby and another climber down as well.

According to local police, weather conditions were good at the time of the accident, which occurred at 11:50 AM today. The crevasse was approximately 70 feet deep.

Two of the three climbers were killed, including Ruby, age 31, while another was seriously injured and taken by helicopter to a nearby hospital.

At the time of the accident Ruby was acting as guide to the group of climbers, a role she's been exploring ever since her retirement after the 2006 Turino Olympics in Italy. She was expected to finish her Mountain Guide training within a few weeks.

Besides winning the gold in Snowboarding's Giant Slalom at the 1998 Olympics, Ruby also took silver in dual Giant Slalom in the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT. Ruby is a World Champion six times over, with two titles in Giant Slalom, one in parallel Giant Slalom, and three in Boardercross. She enjoyed 67 wins and 127 podiums on the World Cup circuit. She also finished second in the 2004 Winter X Games Boardercross at Aspen.

"I'm a little bit overwhelmed by the news and boggled by how fast a vibrant life like that can end," says former World Cup and Olympic Alpine Snowboarding competitor Lisa Kosglow. "[Ruby] was such an amazing athlete and such a go getter. She wasn't one to sit back and rest on her laurels with her success. She was never a slouch when it came to pushing her limits."

Shocking News - A Man Pregnant 6 Month

After you read about a marriage record holder and also a blind love, now we back with another shocking news, this news was come from central java, Indonesia

What do you feel if you hear that a man was pregnant?? that's not a dream.. this man was really pregnant..

Triyono feel there is something that sway in the stomach. The Bachelor aged 40 years thoroughly surprised when the doctor and the midwife says that he's 6 months pregnant.

This incident started when, Triyono feel 'gaffe' in the stomach was 1.5 months on the back.

Warga RT 11 RW 01, Bajangan Hamlet, Village Sambirejo, Bringin District, Semarang, Central Java, and then examined to self Bringin health.

"This is why as a baby," said the fake greeting Triyono dr Bringin Lalang's health.

Triyono ago referred to the hospital Ambarawa. However, when do a Rontgen, they did not found any object in triyono stomach.

Not satisfied on the doctors answers, Triyono check next to the traditional baby, Sumiyem.

"This baby, age 6 months more," said Sumiyem.

Triyono is not thought to himself as pregnant women. "My men I could have babies. I feel there is a move. They say this prat. This leg," said Triyono the shorts and put on this shirt.

Spider-Man 3 actress Lucy Gordon found hanged

THE boyfriend of Spider-Man 3 actress Lucy Gordon has been questioned by police today after her lifeless body was found hanging from the ceiling of her Paris flat.
While police initially ruled out foul play and described it as suicide, the 28-year-old’s death is under judicial investigation.

Detectives have been told that her boyfriend, who had not been named, was heard arguing with Miss Gordon on Tuesday night.

He claimed to have gone to bed, and then woke in the morning to find his young lover - who was due to turn 29 tomorrow - had hanged herself.

Shocked by the horrific scene, he ran into the street below where he alerted a local shopkeeper.

Miss Gordon, who had starred in number of big budget Hollywood films including Spider-Man 3, appeared to have everything to live for.

A former model, she had just played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in a biopic about the late French singer Serge Gainsbourg currently being previewed at the Cannes Film Festival.

'Her career had been just taking off, and it's a tragedy that it has been cut short so soon'

She lived in a $2,500-a-month two-bedroom rented apartment in the bohemian 10th arrondissement of Paris, an up-and-coming area popular with young professionals on the Right Bank of the Seine .

Neighbours have told police that she was seldom home, as she was always out working or socialising.

But on Tuesday night, one told police that she allegedly heard a ‘a couple rowing'.

She claimed: ‘It might not have been anything too serious, but they clearly weren’t getting on.’

The unnamed boyfriend has told police that he was ‘sleeping’ while Miss Gordon killed herself.

He then rushed down into the street below, screaming: ‘Call the police – my friend has hung herself.’

He also told detectives that Miss Gordon had been deeply affected by the recent suicide of a friend back in Britain.

Another local said: ‘She was an adorable girl. Two days ago, we were chatting over a drink. You think people are stable and then.’

An officer who attended the scene in Rue des Petits Ecuries said: ‘The circumstances of the young woman’s death were horrific.'

An autopsy is due to take place to formally establish the exact cause of death.

World's Most Brutal Woman

A woman, actually a woman is the figure that we think is weak, sweet, lovely and feminine. but in this case we talk about world's most brutal woman, a cold blooded woman.. and a cruel woman.. they kill innocent people.. so who was the world's most brutal woman that you know?? Ok let's begin..




10.Williamina “Minnie” Dean 1844 - 1895

She was the one and only woman who was executed on the new zealand history.. she was die by the garrotte, she saved a young poor lady for a guise, but this evil woman then kill those child and took all their money to increase her wealth, at that time the society will expelled a woman who are pregnant without a husband, this thing then make a big phenomena that calls "baby farming" where people offering themself to took over their children with govenrment wages. dean is one of those.. but she doesn't care about these children, but she killed them and took over the wages from the government.. it is said that actually dean killed more than 3 child..

9.Dorothea Puente 1929

Victim : 9 People

Dorothu Puente are the old woman who runs a rent house businness. she kill the people who rent at his house one by one and fudge their signature for the security inspection. she doesn't allow those tenant to use rge phone or send a letter, she took all the money that sent to those tenant. all the victim mostly are drunk and suffering a schizophrenia, one of the corpse found on backyard without head, hand and foot.. so brutal huh?? she use the money that she took for buying a luxurious cloth, perfume and for a skin surgery before she get caught. these woman doesn't feel guilty for her crime, and this time she's on the jail for a life sentence.

8. Karla Homolka 1970

Victim : 3 (expected there are 5 more victim)

She is a Serial Killer from Canada that took the attention from media all over the world when she's punished because she helped her husband Paul Bernardo to rape and kill a young girls, including her own sister Tammy Homolka.. Karla record the brutality and the killing of the young girls that her husband do. those recording used to fight her on the court, and some part can be found on the internet, but the Canada Government order it to delete those video. and now homolka are free from the jail before her 12 years sentence.. and now she live in west indies.

7. Elena Ceausescu 1916 - 1989

Victim : nation annihilation

Elena Ceausescu are the romanian people who are declared herself as a scientist. she is wife of Romanian communist leader and also the vice prime minister Nicolae Ceausescu. Romania declared that Elena Ceausescu responsible for the liberation of birth control that cause the crisis condition along 1970-1980. and cause the Mass increase of the unwanted baby. these baby then live at the orphan house.. she's also lead the environment healthy commision. where she's abjured of AIDS issue in Romania that make the biggest cases on the west.. she's also responsible for the destruction of a church and a food distrubution that on 1980 are located on romania. and finally she's executed for her crimes that against humanity.. and when she's executed she yell out like this "Go To Hell"

6. Elizabeth I of England 1533 - 1603

Victim : Thousand

Elizabeth I order to kill thousand catholic people in england and ireland, she was the cruel queen.. and for info she give Queen Mary of Scots a protection place and suddenly betray her and send her to jail for about 19years and then kill her.. she support the slave exchange.

5. Marybeth Tinning 1942

Victim : 9

Between 1972 and 1985 she have 8 children, and she kill them all, and also her adopted child, there's no one suspect her that she's killed all the children.. she's punished fot 20 years in jail.

4. Rosemary West 1953

Victim : More than 12

With her husband Fred, rosemary west have killed 12 young womanm on august 1992 fred west arrested for the case raping her 13 years daughter 3 times. and rosemary west arrested for awfulness to child. west usually took a girls from a bus stop on Gloucester England, and jailed them on her house for several day before kill them. West have a big sexual lust and she's enjoying on an extreeme slaveness sadomasocithistic sexual activites. and Rosemary are a bisexual girl and mostly their victim are for Rosemary and west sexual orrientation. West also work as a prostitute, two of her child are born from her client. west are one from two woman who was get a death sentence in jail in UK(The Other was Myra Handley who was already death now)

3. Phoolan Devi 1963 - 2001

Victim : More than 22

Phoolan Devi are an India Dacoit(gunmen) who has a short political career.. pm 1970 she's kidnapped by dacoit gank and afterall she joined them to do a crime, one day she was raped by a group of man in behmai, and she choosed to run and continue her life to do a crime such as robbing from a rich people. and then she came home to behmai and order all the man to line up and then shoot them all, more than 22 man die.. and then she's arrested and spent 11 years in jail. She's Entered political world but only for a short period, because of the rebelion. and surprisingly on 1998 she's nominated for getting a nobel award from several English Parliament member.. and on 2001 she's killed by a man in the revenge on her homicide on behmai.

2. Delphine LaLaurie 1775 - 1842

Victim : More than 10

LaLaurie are a cruel socialite member that lived on New Orleand. her house are full of horror, on april 10 1834 a fire happen on her kitchen, and the fireman found 2 slaves that are chained on the stove. they're make the fire to get the attention. the fireman are guided with the other slaves to the rooftop where it was found more shocking thing. more than a dozen slaves that was handicapped and chained on the wall and floor, several of them are the subject for the scary drugs experiment, a man look like as a weird transexual, a woman stuck on the small cage with a broken hand and looks like a crab, and the other woman without hand and foot, and it seems like a meat add onto her body which make her looks like a worm, several of her mouth are sutured, and suffer hungry death. most are found death.. but several people still alive but they ask to be killed to end their suffering. LaLaurie flee before she arrested and never be caught.. maybe she's the most cruel woman that occur in the world..

1. Jiang Qing 1914 - 1991

Victim : more than 500.000

She's the young wife of Mao Tse Tung, the China Communist Dictator. because of her good skill to arrange a movement.. she get the most authority position on the Communist party(like a president authority), it was belived that she's the auctor behind the Chinesse culture revolution (Where she's as the vice leader), during the Culture Revolution, many economic activities stopped and an ancient building, artifact, antiques, books, paintings that can't be count anymore are shattered by red guards. during 10 years culture revolution, it also give an effect on education system, many smart people are sent on the opposition camp, million of people on china reported suffer a human right torturing during the Culture Revolution. million of people are get sack, a approximation of a death victim, civil society, Red Guards, whether it from the east and west people are 500.000 people!!. but those approximation are increased into 3 million from 16 million molested people

Bizzare Death While Having Sex

It is not uncommon for people to keel over and die of a heart attack or a stroke during sex. In very much the same way that some drop dead while jogging or playing tennis, a lot of people have been reported to have bitten the big one in the middle of doing the best exercise of them all.

There have been, however, actual cases of sex and death that are decidedly more bizarre and gruesome than your usual cardiac arrest. And probably more painful too. But then again, the fact that they died in the throes of ecstasy already guarantees that they've already gone to heaven, whether their souls are actually headed there or not.


1. For Jose Agustin Noh, working at a funeral home had its benefits, namely, access to facilities that normal people wouldn't dare imagine to have sex in, like hearses, for instance. But unfortunately for him and his girlfriend, Ana Maria Camara Suarez, their tryst inside a hearse ended in tragedy when carbon monoxide snuffed out their lives while they were sleeping their sex session off. As it turned out, the couple from Campeche, Mexico left the motor running in order to have air conditioning.

2. Kirsten Taylor, a 29-year-old woman from Pennsylvania, died when her husband Toby clipped an electrical cord to her and plugged it into a power strip which he then turned on and off during a night of bizarre sex, which apparently was a usual thing for the couple. No word on whether or not Mr. Taylor was plugged into his wife as he shocked her to death.


3. A couple in Namibia were killed when an all-terrain vehicle and a truck ran them over as they were lying on the road. The driver of the truck claims the two were having sex right there in the middle of the road, "a typical example of people indulging in alcohol", he says. See, sex and alcohol really don't mix.

4. Here's a real-life case of a man screwing a woman to death-literally. Robert Ashitey, a 30-year-old man from Aflao, Ghana, is one really horny dude. He didn't realize his partner, a 75-year-old woman named Suametor Denou, had already died in the middle of their grueling sex bout, and continued pounding her hard. A woman who apparently takes care of the poor old lady had walked in on the scene and screamed at Ashitey to stop, but he continued going at it anyway. She had to whack him on the forehead with a stick to make him stop.

5. We've heard of thrill-seeking couples having sex in the most dangerous of places, but no one were as daring as Mduduzi Michael Bandezi and Sibongile Radebe, a couple who decided to go at it on a supposedly unused railway in South Africa and were promptly crushed by a freight train. The train driver repeatedly hooted but to no avail, as the two "continued with their business".

It is interesting to note that Mr. Bandezi's half-naked body was found with a condom still on. Good to know he practiced safe sex.

6. Brent Tyler and Chelsea Tumbleston, both 21, fell 50 feet to their deaths from the rooftop of a building in Columbia, South Carolina. A cabbie found their naked bodies on the street, and subsequent police investigation revealed clothing was discovered on the roof, strongly suggesting the two were engaged in some mile-high, in this case 50-foot-high, club activity.

7. A man was killed after getting sodomized by a horse at a ranch in Enumclaw, Washington in July 2005. The man, whose colon and other lower organs were ruptured as a result of the fatal sex act, was actually a client of a bestiality ring that catered to men who wanted sex with animals.

Human Rights Violation in South Asia

The nuclear capability in South Asia presumably for peaceful purposes has led to Indian chauvinism and consequently violation of Human Rights.

According to their constitution India is a secular country where all men have equal rights, but some men are more equal than the others are. Hindus being preponderant in number, man the streets of power from top to bottom and are active participants in the violation of Human Rights in a country claiming to be one of the largest democracy of the world.

India is inhabited not only by their original inhabitants hailing their descent from dravidians and aryans but also hordes of invaders and immigrants. India’s vast expanse of land and wealth attracted the Muslim invaders and the Christian traders who have ruled this country for thousands of years. Thus a homogenous population, culture and religion has developed. There have been Buddhists who have been driven out to the Far East, Muslims ruled for 800 years and Christians came into rule for 200 years.

It is after the advent of the British rule and the British policies of dived and rule in India that the violations of Human Rights have began. Hindus felt a sense of separation from the rest of the populace inhabiting this country. Musalmans have been the main target and are the main target even today. While doing this the political parties fanning this hatred forget that the Muslim Emperor of India, Jahangir was born of a Hindu mother, Jodha Bai, sister of Man Singh the celebrated Revenue Minister of Shahenshah Akbar. Communal rights between Hindus and Musalmans have the order of the day since the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the advent of the British rule.

Things do not stop here, the narrow minded policies of the communal organizations like Rashtriya Soyem Sevak Sangh (RSSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad and many others have adopted this slogan, India for Hindus only, this slogan has even effected the so-called secular political parties. Their sole aim is to capture power, irrespective of India’s constitution and image in the comity of nations of the world.

Things do not end here, in their bid for India for Hindus, the communal organisations on whose crest the present Indian government rides have now entered into a policy of extermination of Christians also. Burning of Churches and massacre of Christians in Orrisa and Jaipur and many other places should serve as an eye opener for the world.

Violation of Human Right is a matter of daily routine in Kashmir. In this unfortunate land of disputed sovereignty, violation of Human Right is a small word, it is genocide. How long the world conscience is going to dance attendance to the vested interest of the super power; they have to stand at the bar of history not today, surely tomorrow and thereafter. Kashmir is bound to be Independent, some time some day.

The electronic media should also bring to light the violation of Human Rights being committed by India in the small yet peaceful Kingdom of Nepal, whose only fault is that its border touches the borders of India, this state although is a Hindu state but still is suffering from Indian Chauvinism.

Rights and duties are mingled with each other, and one’s right is a duty for the other. So an act bereft of honesty, truthfulness and sincerity will always lead to the infringement of violation of right of the other.

The news is that Mr. Hashim Qureshi, the celebrated stooge of India in Ganga Hijacking drama is coming back to India to more acts of violations of Human Right because he has been the hero of events which led to the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971 and consequently dismemberment of Pakistan. War itself is a violation of Human Right. If every nation and every state have regard of the Human Right, there would never be a war and world would be a peaceful place to live in. Let the civilized nations realize this fact and the thinking intelligentsia to ponder on it boldly bereft of any political, regional or religious expediency.

Cannibal Mother

Every People are hoping to have a baby and breed their own son, love their own son.. but have you heard about this story?? a mother kill her own son... she kill her own son, she cut her son's head. and she want to cook her son for her lunch.. but before she cook her son, the police arrested her... this case is of Nepal.

How's That?? her mother must be crazy and have a psychic disorder... how can she kill her own son and cut his head??? and also pull his intestines out of his son's body... So Scary huh???

Cannibal Mother

Gay Iraqis Facing Horrific Torture

Over the past few weeks, news reports have surfaced about a rise in attacks and killings of gays throughout Iraq, where men—both professed and allegedly gay—are being targeted and harassed. But now there's a shocking new story that the men are being tortured to death in a most vicious way: by having their anuses glued shut and then are forced to consume a beverage that causes diarrhea, resulting in death. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) translated a report that appeared on the Arabic-language news station Alarabiya, which said:
"A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using 'Iranian gum.' ... Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, 'Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.' According to her, the new substance 'is known as the American hum, which is an Iranian-manufactured glue that if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarrhea. Since the anus is closed, the diarrhea causes death. Videos of this form of torture are being distributed on mobile cellphones in Iraq.'
According to this human rights activist, for the past 3 weeks a crackdown on homosexuals has been going on based on a religious decree that demands their death; dozens have been targeted. She says that the persecution of homosexuals is not confined to the Shiite clerics. Some Sunni leaders have also declared the death penalty for sodomy on satellite channels."
Gays in many parts of the world face persecution, but this is just plain horrific. How can a society, especially one in which Muslim leaders claim that Islam allegedly doesn't preach violence, allow this to occur? How can world leaders stand by and not put an end to this targeted abuse?
The news that gay people are being attacked doesn't come as a surprise; the Muslim world is vocally anti-gay (the claim by Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his country didn't have any gay people living there was absurd). Sure, many will say that there are bigger issues we have to deal with, but if we can't keep innocent people safe in their own homes, how can we call ourselves civil and human?
Obviously people are abused all over the world, but when something as shocking as this surfaces, the senseless abuse needs to be squashed. What sort of pain must these men endure? And how long does their torture exist before they're spared with death?
The IGLHRC sent a letter to Iraqi Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Salim, urging her to take action to protect her country's LGBT community. With Iraq's current unrest, it's unlikely anything will happen to protect these people. Hopefully they will be given asylum to leave their country.

Merciless Execution

History: Stoning is arguably the world's oldest form of execution. It is as old as written literature, and the most common death penalty described in the Bible (prompting Jesus' famous anti-death penalty statement in John 8.7: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"). Although it has never been a legal form of execution in the United States, it is practiced elsewhere in the world, primarily in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

Unsavory Overtones: Stoning is primarily enforced by Islamic fundamentalist sharia law, often for bizarre reasons. In 2004, 13-year-old Zhila Izadyar was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for the "crime" of being raped by her older brother. Although the sentence was later overturned due to international outcry, equally horrific stoning sentences are quietly carried out throughout the developing world on a regular basis.

How It Works: The prisoner is buried either up to his waist (if male) or up to her shoulders (if female) and then pelted with stones by a crowd of volunteers until obviously battered to death. Under the terms of most fundamentalist courts, the stones must be small enough that death cannot reasonably be expected to result from only one or two blows, but large enough to cause physical harm. The average execution by stoning is extremely painful, lasting at least 10 to 20 minutes.

Shocking Health Facts

Don't put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers, Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it's maximum signaling power, which is: 2watts = 33dbi. Please Be Careful. Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it may affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.

• Do not drink APPY FIZZ . It contains cancer causing agent.

• Don't eat Mentos before or after drinking Coke or Pepsi coz the person will die immediately as the mixture becomes cyanide. Please fwd to whom u care..

• Don't eat kurkure because it contains high amount of plastic if U don't Believe burn kurkure n u can see plastic melting. Please forward to all!!!!!!!!! !! News report from Times of India.

• Avoid these tablets as they are very dangerous:

1. D-Cold

2. Vicks action-500

3. Actified

4. Coldarin

5. Co some

6. Nice

7. Nimulid

8. Cetrizet-D

• They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these tablets are banned in U.S.

• Cotton Ear Buds... (Must read it) Please do not show sympathy to people selling buds on roadside or at Signals by buying their ear buds (instead you can give them money without taking their ear buds)..... Just wanted to warn you people not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. Those were made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals. They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud, DON'T BUY THEM!

*12 signs your falling in love*

12. You'll read his/her txts over and over again...
11. You'll walk really really slow while you're with him/her...
10. You'll pretend 2 be shy whenever you're with him/her...
9. While thinking bout him/her...your heart will beat faster and faster...
8. By listening to his/her voice...you'll smile for no reason.
7. While looking at him/her..you cant see the other people around you...you can only see that person...
6. You'll start listening to SLOW songs.
5. He/She becomes all you think about
4. You'll get high just by their smell...
3. You'll realize that you're always smiling to yourself when you think about them..
2. You'll do anything for him/her...
1. While reading this, there was one person on your mind the whole time.....

Source:The best love quotes, saying and phrases

60 year old man held for raping daughter for 9 years

Mumbai: In a shocking case, a sexagenarian allegedly raped his daughter repeatedly over a span of nine years at the behest of an occultist, who said the act would bring prosperity to the family.


The 21-year-old victim, who had been silent about the incident, mustered courage to approach the police after her businessman-father attempted to rape her 15-year-old younger sister.



Besides the father, the Mira Road police in neighbouring Thane district have arrested the victim’s mother for abetting the crime and also the occultist, Hasmukh Rathod.



Identity of the family has been withheld by police. According to police, the husband and wife were under the influence of the occultist, who told them in July 2000 that the family would prosper if the father were to have a sexual relationship with his elder daughter, who was then 12.



The victim told the police that she could not muster the courage to approach anyone about the incident. But when her father attempted to rape her younger sister, she approached her maternal uncle after which a police complaint was filed, Additional Superintendent of Police Sashikant Mahavarkar said.

Love is Blind - a Man Marry 106 years Old Woman

Love is blind, everyone will say that, there's many crazy things can happen because of love, from an ordinary one until an extraordinary, someone can do anything for his/her lover.. now amusingworld just wanna share you this shocking stories.. a 37 years old man marry a 106 years old woman!! this can be more fact to show us that love is blind - a man marry 106 years old woman.

Love is blind, age is just a number, are these statement are true?? nowadays we hear so many case that an older woman marry with a younger man. what are their secret to make the man fall in love?? are they use some kind of black magic to make them fall in love??

Are these marriage are really based of love?? or they have more objection?? OK let’s see this case..

Wook Kundur (106 years old) marry with Mohd Nor(37 years old) 69 years difference is not a problem to them..

Firstly Mohd Nor lived in Wook Kundur’s House. Mohd Nor marry her in purpose to avoid the slander from village people. (the tradition there forbid a man lived with a woman in the same house without marriage status)

How about their Sexual Life??

It is said that Wook Kundur try her best to serve his husband on the bed.. but she allow her husband to marry a younger woman.

See?? there’s many unbelievable things in this world.. like the story above.. do you agree with us if love is blind??

Her mum would have loved her so much: Tearful words of man whose baby was born TWO DAYS after wife died

Two days after Jayne Soliman was declared brain-dead, her grieving husband saw her life-support machine turned off.
In a moment of unbelievable poignancy, he was then given their baby daughter to hold for the first time.
Doctors had kept 41-year-old Mrs Soliman's heart beating after she suffered a brain haemorrhage.
For 48 hours they pumped large doses of steroids into her body to help the baby's lungs develop.

Her mother had been declared brain dead two days before she was born. Now baby Aya Jayne, weighing little over 2lb, is in intensive care
Then they delivered baby Aya Jayne by caesarean section. At 26 weeks, she weighed just 2lb 11/2oz.
The tiny infant was placed on her mother’s shoulder for a moment before being handed to her father, Mahmoud Soliman.
Aya - her name is a word from the Koran meaning miracle - is now doing well in hospital while 29-year-old Mr Soliman struggles to cope with the misery of suddenly losing his wife and the joy of becoming a father

Mahmoud Soliman with his wife Jayne who suffered a fatal brain haemorrhage before the birth of her daughter
‘It was Jayne’s one true wish to be a mum - and she would have been a great mum,’ he said at the couple’s home in Bracknell, Berkshire.
Mrs Soliman, formerly Jayne Campbell, was British Free Skating champion in 1989, the same year she was rated seventh in the world.
She went on to become a figure-skating teacher and had a spell in Abu Dhabi, where she met her Egyptian-born husband-to-be.

Law graduate Mr Soliman said that when they met it was ‘love at first sight’ despite her worries over their age difference.
She converted to Islam before their wedding. Upon their arrival in Britain Mr Soliman began studying for a business masters degree.
Mrs Soliman had been healthy throughout her pregnancy, and continued working as a coach at Bracknell Skating Club. She was on the ice last Wednesday before she suddenly collapsed in her bedroom after complaining of a headache

Clinging on… now Aya has been released from intensive care
She was flown by air ambulance to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford but hours later, in the early evening, was declared brain dead.
Doctors told devastated Mr Soliman that an aggressive tumour had rapidly developed in her brain in just a few weeks - and had suddenly ruptured a major blood vessel.
But although she had suffered brain death, her heart could still be kept pumping on a life-support machine, and the doctors were hopeful her daughter could be born.
A mother’s body remains the best incubator for a baby, even if she is brain-dead, but it is still wise for birth to be carried out as soon as the foetus is considered viable because infections can develop and spread to the baby.

Mr Soliman said that since their marriage in May 2007 his wife had been devastated to suffer a miscarriage but was delighted when she became pregnant again.
‘I can remember the first scan,’ he said. ‘We just hugged each other and kept crying when we saw the heartbeat. It was this tiny speck beating.
‘We were so looking forward to the baby coming.’
He wept as he recalled his wife’s final hours. ‘The doctors told me there was nothing they could do for Jayne but they needed her to stay strong for 48 hours to help our unborn child.
‘Her heart kept beating strongly for 48 hours and her body never gave up.’

The couple had chosen names for the baby - Ali for a boy or Maggie for a girl. But Mr Soliman decided it had to be Aya Jayne after the traumatic events of last week.
His wife’s funeral was held in Reading on Saturday, with 300 mourners including many from the skating world.
He was initially told his daughter might have to remain in the intensive care unit at John Radcliffe for more than two weeks, but she was doing so well that she was transferred to hospital in Reading on the day of her mother’s funeral.
Mr Soliman is still too distraught to plan ahead, but knows what he will be telling his daughter as soon as she is old enough to understand.

He said: ‘I will tell her what a lovely, lovely mum she had who would have loved her so much.
‘I was the one who always used to tell Jayney, “If I die, do this”.
She used to say, “Don’t die and leave me” - but last week she did leave me. She is my angel in paradise.’
The couple’s friends David Phillips, 48, and his wife Lucine, both keen ice skaters, were at the hospital for the last moments of Mrs Soliman and the arrival of her daughter.
Mrs Phillips said: ‘Aya was born kicking and wriggling. It’s hard to describe the emotions I was going through when I saw her - it was a mixture of tragedy, elation and relief.
‘It was so sad to think that Jayne was never going to see her beautiful baby. A midwife picked Aya up and put her little face up to Jayne’s. If Jayne had been awake she would have had eye contact with her daughter.

‘We then had to say goodbye to Jayne. Mahmoud said goodbye on his own because he wanted to be the last person to see her.
‘He sat with her for a while and then he was told he could go and see his daughter.
‘He said, “That’s my Jayney” - Aya, after all, is a little piece of Jayne. He was allowed to touch Aya, and seeing her tiny fingers close in on his was just indescribable.
‘And when he was finally allowed to hold her, the look on his face was just full of emotion.’
Mr Phillips added: ‘To Jayne, becoming a mother was the best thing in the world that could have happened to her. She was so happy, she had always wanted to be a mum more than anything else. She lived to have a baby girl - that was the one thing she wanted in her life.
‘Aya Jayne is absolutely tiny - her eyes are the size of lemon pips and her hands are about as big as my wedding ring - but she’s doing brilliantly. Her dad has had the best and the worst day of his life within such a short space of time.
‘It’s just something you can’t imagine - turning off your wife’s life-support machine and then going to see your new-born daughter.’

How they give baby the best chance of life

Doctors have on rare occasions kept pregnant women artificially alive to save their babies.
Providing the infant is unharmed, doctors can help it survive in its own incubator - the womb.
Even if the mother is certified brain-dead, speedy arrival at hospital makes possible to keep her on life support for days or even weeks during which the baby’s progress is closely monitored.

Jayne Soliman was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after collapsing at home but was declared brain-dead hours later. Doctors managed to keep her heart beating until her daughter was safely delivered
Doctors use a ventilator to maintain breathing while the circulation is managed using IV tubes to provide fluids, drugs and blood transfusions.
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 67 per cent prospect of survival, according to statistics from the newborn charity Bliss.
This is the usual point at which doctors decide to deliver, giving the baby a good chance of life while minimising the time during which the mother’s condition could go downhill.
They administer steroids in the hours beforehand to help premature babies with immature lungs breathe more easily after birth. The baby is delivered by caesarean section. The life-support system for the mother is then switched off.
Three years ago a brain-dead American woman, Susan Torres, was maintained on life support for nearly three months after a massive stroke.
It was triggered by an undiagnosed form of aggressive cancer and after she slipped into a coma her husband was told her brain functions had stopped.
He wanted her to be kept on an incubator and artificially respirated and hydrated to give their baby daughter a chance of survival. The 26-year-old mother was only 17 weeks pregnant when she died.
The case was believed to be the first in the world involving brain-stem death, although there were previous cases where women gave birth in a coma.
Mrs Torres’s baby, also called Susan, survived five weeks but then died after surgery for a perforated intestine.

A look at the god of Reggae, Bob Marley

Inductee: Bob Marley (vocals, guitar; born February 6, 1945, died May 11, 1981)

Bob Marley was reggae’s foremost practitioner and emissary, embodying its spirit and spreading its gospel to all corners of the globe. His extraordinary body of work embraces the stylistic spectrum of modern Jamaican music - from ska to rock steady to reggae - while carrying the music to another level as a social force with universal appeal. Marley cannot claim to have had even one hit single in America, but few others changed the musical and cultural landscape as profoundly as he. As Robert Palmer wrote in a tribute to Marley upon his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, “No one in rock and roll has l

There’s no question that reggae is legitimately part of the larger culture of rock and roll, partaking of its full heritage of social forces and stylistic influences. In Marley’s own words, “Reggae music, soul music, rock music - every song is a sign.” Marley’s own particular symbolism derived from his beliefs as a Rastafarian - a sect that revered Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (a.k.a. Ras Tafari) as a living god who would lead oppressed blacks back to an African homeland - and his firsthand knowledge of the deprivations of the Jamaican ghettos. His lyrics mixed religious mysticism with calls for political uprising, and Marley delivered them in a passionate, declamatory voice.

Reggae’s loping, hypnotic rhythms carried an unmistakable signature that rose to the fore of the music scene in the Seventies, largely through the recorded work of Marley and the Wailers on the Island and Tuff Gong labels. Such albums as Natty Dread and Rastaman Vibration endure as reggae milestones that gave a voice to the poor and disfranchised citizens of Jamaica and, by extension, the world. In so doing, he also instilled them with pride and dignity in their heritage, however sorrowful the realities of their daily existence. Moreover, Marley’s reggae anthems provided rhythmic uplift that induced what Marley called “positive vibrations” in all who heard it. Regardless of how you heard it - political music suitable for dancing, or dance music with a potent political subtext – Marley’s music was a powerful potion for troubled times.

Marley was born on Jamaica to a young black mother and an older white father. A precocious musician, a teenaged Marley formed a vocal trio in 1963 with friends Neville “Bunny” O’Riley Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh). The group members had grown up in Trench Town, a ghetto neighborhood of Kingston, listening to rhythm and blues on American radio stations. They heard such R&B mainstays as Ray Charles, the Drifters, Fats Domino and Curtis Mayfield. They took the name the Wailing Wailers (shortened to the Wailers) because they were ghetto sufferers who’d been born “wailing.” As practicing Rastas, they grew their hair in dreadlocks and smoked ganja (marijuana), believing it to be a sacred herb that brought enlightenment.

The Wailers recorded prolifically for small Jamaican labels throughout the Sixties, during which time ska – Jamaican dance music that drew from African rhythms and New Orleans R&B – was the hot sound. The Wailers had their first hit in 1963 with “Simmer Down,” and they went on to record 30 sides in the “rude boy” ska style for Jamaican soundman Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One. By this time, Marley’s preoccupations were taking a spiritual turn, and Jamaican music itself was changing from the bouncy ska beat to the more sensual rhythms of rock steady. An association with Jamaican producer Lee Perry resulted in some of the Wailers’ memorable recordings, including “Soul Rebel” and “Duppy Conqueror,” and the albums Soul Rebel and Soul Revolution.

Though the Wailers were popular in Jamaica, it was not until the group signed with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records in the early Seventies that they found an international audience. Their first recordings for Island, Catch a Fire (1972) and Burnin’ (1973), were hard-hitting albums full of what critic Robert Christgau called Marley’s “melodic propaganda.” The latter contained “I Shot the Sheriff.” Reggae aficionado Eric Clapton’s version of the song went to #1 in 1974, which further carried the name of Marley and the Wailers beyond their Jamaican home base.

With the departure of founding members Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer after Burnin’, Marley took center stage as singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist. Backed by a first-rate band and the I-Threes vocal trio – which included his wife, Rita – Marley rose to the occasion with 1975’s Natty Dread (his first album to chart in America) and the string of politically charged albums that followed. These included Rastaman Vibration, his highest-charting album (1976, #8); the fiery, oratorical Exodus (1977, #20); the mellow, herb-extolling Kaya (1978, #50), the live double-album Babylon by Bus (#1978, #102), and the politicized, defiant Survival (1979, #70) and Uprising (1980, #46). Uprising was the last studio album released during Marley’s lifetime.

So influential a cultural icon had Marley become on his home island by the mid-Seventies that Time magazine proclaimed, “He rivals the government as a political force.” On December 5, 1976, Marley was scheduled to give a free “Smile Jamaica” concert, aimed at reducing tensions between warring political factions. Two days before the scheduled concert, he and his entourage were attacked by gunman. Though Bob and Rita Marley were grazed by bullets, they electrified a crowd of 80,000 people when both took to the stage with the Wailers on the 5th - a gesture of survival that only heightened Marley’s legend. It further galvanized his political outlook, resulting in the most militant albums of his career: Exodus, Survival and Uprising.

He was particularly moved throughout his career by the gulf between haves and have-nots, a culture of oppression that was particularly glaring in his poverty- and crime-ridden Jamaican homeland. “We should all come together and creative music and love, but [there] is too much poverty,” Marley told writer Timothy White in 1976. “The most intelligent people [are] the poorest people…[but] people don’t get no time to feel and spend [their] intelligence…The intelligent and innocent are poor, are crumbled and get brutalized. Daily.”

Given the violent culture that he survived and transcended, Marley’s death seems almost cruelly flukish. In 1977, surgeons removed part of a toe that had been injured in a soccer game, upon which a cancerous growth was found. This led to the discovery of spreading cancer in 1980, after Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park, that claimed his life less than a year later. Though he died prematurely at age 36, the heartbeat reggae rhythms of the enormous body of music that Bob Marley left behind have endured. Moreover, Jamaica itself has been transformed by his charismatic personality and musical output. Marley was buried on the island with full state honors on May 21, 1981. In a crowning irony, given the reviled status that Rastafarians and their music had once suffered at the hands of the Jamaican government, Marley’s pacifist reggae anthem, “One Love,” was adapted as a theme song by the Jamaican Tourist Board. Meanwhile, Marley’s music continues to find an audience. With sales of more than 10 million in the U.S. alone, Legend - a best-of spanning the Island Records years (1972-1981) - remains the best-selling album by a Jamaican artist and the best-selling reggae album in history.
TIMELINE

February 6, 1945: Bob Marley is born in St. Ann’s Parish in Jamaica.

1962: Bob Marley records his first single, “Judge Not,” at Federal Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

February 10, 1966: Bob Marley and Alpharita (“Rita”) Constantia Anderson get married.

October 24, 1966: After eight months spent living in America with his mother, Bob Marley returns to Jamaica.

August 23, 1970: The Wailers begin recording a series of classic recordings with producer Lee “Scratch” Perry in what would be a classic lineup: Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and brothers Aston and Carlton Barrett.

December 30, 1971: Bob Marley visits Island Records’ head Chris Blackwell at his London office. The resulting association will make a superstar of Marley and establish Island as THE reggae label.

December 13, 1972: ‘Catch a Fire,’ by the Wailers, is released in the U.K. Heralded as “the first genuine reggae album in history,” it comes out in the U.S. the following year.

September 14, 1974: Eric Clapton’s version of the Wailers’ “I Shot the Sheriff,” written by head Wailer Bob Marley, hits #1 and helps generate interest in reggae.

May 10, 1975: Though Bob Marley has been recording prolifically in his native Jamaica since 1962, Natty Dread is the first album by Marley and the Wailers to make the U.S. charts, reaching #92.

July 18, 1975: Bob Marley and the Wailers perform at the Lyceum in London. The concert is released in Britain as the album ‘Live!.’ After selling briskly as an import, it is released in the U.S. in October 1976.

May 13, 1976: ‘Rastaman Vibration,’ by Bob Marley and the Wailers – and featuring an American, Don Kinsey, on lead guitar – is released. It becomes Marley’s highest-charting album, reaching #8 in the U.S. and #15 in the U.K.

December 3, 1976: Bob Marley and his entourage are attacked by gunman. A wounded but undeterred Marley electrifies a crowd two nights later at a free “Smile Jamaica” concert.

January 17, 1977: Bob Marley and the Wailers cut new material in London, marking the first time they’ve recorded outside of Jamaica in six years. Of more than 20 songs recorded, ten turn up on ‘Exodus’ (1977) and ten on ‘Kaya’ (1978).

April 12, 1978: Bob Marley orchestrates a Peace Concert in Jamaica that features key reggae acts, including the Wailers, in an attempt to cool down the violent conflicts that are tearing Jamaica apart.

October 8, 1979: ‘Survival,’ a militant new album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, is released as a 47-date tour kicks off at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre.

June 8, 1980: A month after the release of the African-themed ‘Uprising,’ Bob Marley and the Wailers kick off the Tuff Gong Uprising tour, during which they’ll perform for a million people in 12 countries.

September 20, 1980: Bob Marley suffers a stroke while jogging in Central Park. X-rays reveal a brain tumor.

September 21, 1980: Bob Marley performs the final show of his career, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The tour’s remaining dates are canceled as Marley seeks treatment for his spreading cancers.

October 4, 1980: Stevie Wonder’s tribute to Bob Marley, the reggaefied “Master Blaster (Jammin’),” enters the singles charts. It will top the R&B chart for seven weeks and peak at #5 on the pop chart.

May 11, 1981: Bob Marley dies of brain, lung and stomach cancer at 11:45 a.m. in Miami, Florida.

May 21, 1981: Bob Marley is given a state funeral in Jamaica and buried at Nine Miles in St. Ann’s Parish, beside the house in which he was born.

January 19, 1994: Bob Marley is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ninth annual induction dinner. Bono of U2 is his presenter, and Rita Marley accepts the award on behalf of her late husband.

April 7, 1999: ‘Legend,’ Bob Marley and the Wailers’ greatest-hits collection, receives its 10th platinum certification, signifying sales of more than 10 million copies.

Essential Songs

I Shot the Sheriff
Get Up, Stand Up
Lively Up Yourself
No Woman, No Cry
Redemption Song
One Love
Roots, Rock, Reggae
Buffalo Soldiers
Trenchtown Rock
Soul Rebel

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Gloomy Sunday, World's most dangerous song

The song “Gloomy Sunday” was once banned because of its connection with many suicides.

Origins: “The” legend about “Gloomy Sunday” is a sort of meta-legend that encompasses the following claims:
The song “Gloomy Sunday” was connected to many suicides in Hungary.

The song “Gloomy Sunday” was banned in America because of its connection to many suicides.
The composer wrote the song for a former girlfriend, who committed suicide shortly after the song’s release.
The composer himself committed suicide.

A little background for those not familiar with this legend:
“Gloomy Sunday” was written in 1933 by two Hungarians: Rezso Seress (music) and Laszlo Javor (lyrics). The song supposedly drew little (adverse) attention until 1936, when it began to be connected with a rash of suicides in Hungary and was allegedly banned there. American musicians and singers soon jumped at the chance to record instrumental and translated versions of the “Hungarian suicide song,” and by the end of 1936 several recordings were available to American audiences. (The Billie Holiday version, recorded several years later, was probably the most popular English-language version of “Gloomy Sunday.”)
Up to seventeen suicides were purportedly linked in some way to the song “Gloomy Sunday” in Hungary before the song was (allegedly) banned. These “links” included people who reportedly killed themselves after listening to the song (either from a recording or performed by a band), or who were said to have been found dead with references to “Gloomy Sunday” (and/or its lyrics) in their suicide notes, with “Gloomy Sunday” sheet music in their hands, or with “Gloomy Sunday” playing on gramophones.
I don’t know how any of these claims could be verified short of paging through old Hungarian newspapers; even then, it would be difficult at this late date to separate exaggerated and fabricated reports from true ones. I suspect that this portion of the legend is trivially true, a combination of Hungary’s historically high suicide rate and the assumption of a causal — rather than a coincidental — relationship between the song and suicides that caused rumors and media reports to be greatly exaggerated.
Hungary has had the highest suicide rate of any country for many years (as high as 45.9 per 100,000 people in 1984), so a few dozen suicides there over a year’s time certainly wouldn’t have been unusual, even in 1936. Nor is it at all uncommon for suicides to work something from popular songs or books or films into their deaths. Only when one particular song was coincidentally linked to a sufficient number of suicides to draw attention to all the suicides in which it played a part did people start to claim that it was somehow the cause of these deaths.
Many claims are made about the reaction to “Gloomy Sunday” by Hungarian authorities, from “discouraging” public performance of the song to an outright ban on it. I have found no reliable information about when, where, or by whom this song might have been banned in one form or another. My guess, based on similar legends (such as the claim that Donald Duck was banned in insert Scandinavian country of choice), would be that some Hungarian municipalities may have instituted some types of (possibly voluntary) restrictions on the song, but that there was no nation-wide ban on “Gloomy Sunday.”
The claims about American reaction to the song are even wilder. Some sources claim that no “Gloomy Sunday”-inspired suicides were reported in the USA at all, while others attribute cases of suicide (up to “200 worldwide”) in both the USA and Britain to the English-language version of “Gloomy Sunday” (including “young jazz fans” who became depressed after hearing Billie Holiday’s version of the song). Likewise, while some sources say that there were no restrictions whatsoever placed on the song in the USA, others claim that it was “banned from the airwaves.” (Sometimes the ban is said to have been directed at a particular version of the song, such as Billie Holiday’s recording of it.) Some sources even claim that a sort of “compromise” ban was enacted as many radio stations played only the instrumental version of the song.
The “girlfriend who inspired the song committed suicide” claims sounds like an embellishment of the basic legend, as I only found one source that mentioned it. It claimed that Javor “wrote the song for a former girlfriend,” and that shortly after its release she committed suicide and left behind a note reading simply “Gloomy Sunday.”
Rezso Seress did indeed commit suicide, jumping from a Budapest building in 1968. This portion of the legend also appears to have been embellished, with some sources claiming that he was depressed because he’d never been able to produce another hit after “Gloomy Sunday.”

The Lyrics like this :
translate from the Original written by rezsô seress

It is autumn and the leaves are falling
All love has died on earth
The wind is weeping with sorrowful tears
My heart will never hope for a new spring again
My tears and my sorrows are all in vain
People are heartless, greedy and wicked…
Love has died!
The world has come to its end, hope has ceased to have a meaning
Cities are being wiped out, shrapnel is making music
Meadows are coloured red with human blood
There are dead people on the streets everywhere
I will say another quiet prayer:
People are sinners, Lord, they make mistakes…
The world has ended!

Translate From the 2nd original
version written by László Jávor

Gloomy Sunday with a hundred white flowers
I was waiting for you my dearest with a prayer
A Sunday morning, chasing after my dreams
The carriage of my sorrow returned to me without you
It is since then that my Sundays have been forever sad
Tears my only drink, the sorrow my bread…
Gloomy Sunday
This last Sunday, my darling please come to me
There’ll be a priest, a coffin, a catafalque and a winding-sheet
There’ll be flowers for you, flowers and a coffin
Under the blossoming trees it will be my last journey
My eyes will be open, so that I could see you for a last time
Don’t be afraid of my eyes, I’m blessing you even in my death…
The last Sunday

English Version Translate by Sam M Lewis

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless.
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless.
Little white flowers will never awaken you,
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you.
Angels have no thought of ever returning you.
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday.
Gloomy is Sunday; with shadows I spend it all.
My heart and I have decided to end it all.
Soon there’ll be candles and prayers that are sad, I know.
Death is no dream, for in death I’m caressing you.
With the last breath of my soul I’ll be blessing you.
Gloomy Sunday.

English Version Translate By Desmond Carter

Sadly one Sunday I waited and waited
With flowers in my arms for the dream I’d created
I waited ’til dreams, like my heart, were all broken
The flowers were all dead and the words were unspoken
The grief that I knew was beyond all consoling
The beat of my heart was a bell that was tolling
Saddest of Sundays
Then came a Sunday when you came to find me
They bore me to church and I left you behind me
My eyes could not see one I wanted to love me
The earth and the flowers are forever above me
The bell tolled for me and the wind whispered, “Never!”
But you I have loved and I bless you forever
Last of all Sundays

Father at age 13

He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he's a father.
Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie Patten, was just 12 when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms.
Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a small, high-pitched voice, “What’s financially?”
The girl was taking birth control pills but missed one, the newspaper reported. Friends and relatives left the family home near Eastbourne, about 70 miles southeast of London, Friday without speaking to reporters gathered outside. The teenagers could not immediately be contacted.
The Sun did not say whether any tests were conducted to prove the boy’s paternity. The paper did not offer any immediate comment when asked whether it had paid the family for the story.
Police and child services in Eastbourne, in southeast England, said in a statement that they were “aware of a 14-year-old girl that had become pregnant as the result of a relationship with a 12-year-old boy,” adding that they were offering support to both young people.
Alfie’s front page picture has sparked renewed debate about teen pregnancy in Britain. The country has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, and government figures show that about 39,000 girls under age 18 became pregnant in 2006. More than 7,000 of those girls were younger than 16.
“I don’t know the individual details of the case, but of course I think all of us would want to avoid teenage pregnancies,” Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
Britain had 27 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 between 2000 and 2005, according to a report published by Population Action International. Comparable figures are 10 per 1,000 for Spain, 8 in 1,000 for France, and 5 in 1,000 for The Netherlands.
Britain’s teen pregnancy rate, however, is still far below that of the United States, which registers 44 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 and are more line with English-speaking countries such as Australia and New Zealand, which respectively have 17 and 27 births per 1,000 women between 15 and 19, according to the report.
But the country’s reputation as Europe’s teen pregnancy capital has been an embarrassment to politicians.
In 1999 then-Prime Minister Tony Blair described Britain’s record on pregnancies as shameful and vowed to turn it around.
“Put simply, you are still a child when you are 14 and, in a civilized society, children should not be having children,” he said at the time. The government has since poured millions of pounds (dollars) into advertising and educational campaigns.
Educating youngsters
Brook, a U.K. group that provides sexual health advice to people under 25, said teen pregnancies had fallen by about 12 percent since 1998, but more had to be done.
“It can be easy to concentrate on young women but young men need as much support and information,” Brook’s chief executive, Simon Blake, said.
In a move last year to tackle the high teen pregnancy rate, British education officials announced they would start introducing sex education earlier in English schools. Beginning next year, children as in grades as low as kindergarten will be given basic sex education.
Tony Kerridge, of the sexual health group Marie Stopes International, praised the move, but local lawmaker Nigel Waterson said the pregnancy raised “huge questions” about whether British children were being educated about sex — at the expense of learning about healthy relationships.
‘We made a mistake‘
Chantelle and Alfie have reportedly pledged to raise the child as best they can.
“We know we made a mistake but I wouldn’t change it now,” Chantelle quoted
Alfie’s father, Dennis — who reportedly has nine children — said his son told him it was the first time he had sex. He was reportedly allowed to sleep over at the girl’s house.
“It hasn’t really dawned on him,” Patten, 45, was quoted as saying in the paper.
“I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and bees talk,” he said. “Some may say it’s too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby.”

New 7 wonders of the world

1.Chichen Itza(Yucatán Peninsula,Mexico)

Chichen Itza (pronounced /tʃiːˈtʃɛn iːˈtsɑː/; from Yucatec Maya: Chi'ch'èen Ìitsha', "At the mouth of the well of the Itza") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico.

Chichen Itza was a major regional focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.

The ruins of Chichen Itza are federal property, and the site’s stewardship is maintained by Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH). The land under the monuments, however, is privately-owned by the Barbachano family.

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2.Christ the Redeemer(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Christ the Redeemer (Portuguese: O Cristo Redentor) is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The statue stands 38 metres (120 ft) tall weighs 635 tonnes (700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700 metres (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. It is the tallest of its kind in the world. It is made of reinforced concrete and soapstone.

A symbol of Christianity, the statue has become an icon of Rio and Brazil.

The idea for erecting a large statue atop Corcovado was first suggested in the mid 1850s, when Catholic priest Pedro Maria Boss requested financing from Princess Isabel to build a large religious monument. Princess Isabel did not think much of the idea and it was completely dismissed in 1889, when Brazil became a Republic, with laws mandating the separation of church and state. The second proposal for a large landmark statue on the mountain was made in 1921 by the Catholic Circle of Rio. The group organised an event called Semana do Monumento (”Monument Week”) to attract donations and collect signatures to support the building of the statue. The donations came mostly from Brazilian Catholics.The designs considered for the “Statue of the Christ” included a representation of the Christian cross, a statue of Jesus with a globe in his hands, and a pedestal symbolizing the world. The statue of Christ the Redeemer with open arms was chosen.
Christ the Redeemer with Lagoa & Ipanema in the background.

Local engineer Heitor da Silva Costa designed the statue; it was sculpted by Paul Landowski, a French monument sculptor of Polish origin.A group of engineers and technicians studied Landowski’s submissions and the decision was made to build the structure out of reinforced concrete (designed by Albert Caquot) instead of steel, more suitable for the cross-shaped statue. The outer layers are soapstone, chosen for its enduring qualities and ease of use.Construction took nine years, from 1922 to 1931. The monument was opened on October 12, 1931. The cost of the monument was $250,000. The statue was meant to be lit by a battery of floodlights triggered remotely by shortwave radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, stationed 5,700 miles (9,200 km) away in Rome, but poor weather affected the signal and it had to be lit by workers in Rio.

The statue was struck by lightning during a violent electrical storm on Sunday, February 10, 2008. The storm caused havoc in Rio, falling trees in several neighborhoods, but the statue was left unscathed because soapstone, the material forming the outer layers of the statue, is an insulator.
Christ the Redeemer

In October 2006, on the statue’s 75th anniversary, Archbishop of Rio Cardinal Eusebio Oscar Scheid consecrated a chapel (named for the patron saint of Brazil - Nossa Senhora Aparecida) under the statue. This allows Catholics to hold baptisms and weddings there.

On 7th July 2007, Christ the Redeemer was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a list compiled by the Swiss-based The New Open World Corporation. In Brazil there was a campaign Vote no Cristo (Vote for the Christ) which had the support of private companies. Additionally, leading corporate sponsors including Banco Bradesco and Rede Globo spent millions of dollars in the effort to have the statue voted into the top seven.

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3.Colosseum(Rome,Italy)

The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.

Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started between 70 and 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian’s reign (81–96). The name “Amphitheatrum Flavium” derives from both Vespasian’s and Titus’s family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).

Originally capable of seating around 80,000[citation needed] spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. As well as the gladiatorial games, other public spectacles were held there, such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.

It has been estimated that about 500,000 people and over a million wild animals died in the Colosseum games.

Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined due to damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome and its breakthrough achievements in earthquake engineering. It is one of Rome’s most popular tourist attractions and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit “Way of the Cross” procession to the amphitheatre.

The Colosseum is also depicted on the Italian version of the five-cent euro coin.

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4.The Great Wall of China(China)

The Great Wall of China (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城; pinyin: Chángchéng; literally “long city/fortress”) or (simplified Chinese: 万里长城; traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally “The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)”) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang; little of it remains; it was much farther north than the current wall, which was built during the Ming Dynasty.

The Great Wall stretches over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles) from Shanhaiguan in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia, but stretches to over 6,700 km (4,160 miles) in total. At its peak, the Ming Wall was guarded by more than one million men. It has been estimated that somewhere in the range of 2 to 3 million Chinese died as part of the centuries-long project of building the wall.

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5.Machu Picchu(Urubamba Valley, Peru)

Machu Picchu (Quechua: Machu Pikchu, “Old Peak”; pronounced ['mɑ.tʃu 'pik.tʃu]) is a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (8,000 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows. The river is a partially navigable headwater of the Amazon River. Often referred to as “The Lost City of the Incas”, Machu Picchu is one of the most familiar symbols of the Inca Empire.

It was built around the year 1460, but was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Although known locally, it was said to have been forgotten for centuries when the site was brought to worldwide attention in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, an American historian. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction. It has recently come to light that the site may have been discovered and plundered several years previously, in 1867 by a German businessman, Augusto Berns. In fact, there is substantial evidence that a British missionary, Thomas Payne, and a German engineer, J. M. von Hassel, arrived earlier than Hiram, and maps found by historians show references to Machu Picchu as early as 1874.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Since it was not plundered by the Spanish when they conquered the Incas, it is especially important as a cultural site and it is considered a sacred place.

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Hiram Bingham had removed from Machu Picchu in the early twentieth century. Currently, there are concerns about the effect of tourism on the site as it reached 400,000 visitors in 2003.

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6.Petra(Jordan)

Petra (from URU $e-eh-{la}[-li].KI in Akkadian, “petra-πέτρα”, cleft in the rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma’an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra is also one of the new wonders of the world.

The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as “a rose-red city half as old as time” in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as “one of the most precious cultural properties of man’s cultural heritage.” In 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.

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7.Taj Mahal(India)

The Taj Mahal (pronounced /tɑdʒ mə’hɑl/ —- Hindi: ताज महल; Persian/Urdu: تاج محل) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

The Taj Mahal (also “the Taj”) is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Ottoman, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles. In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as “the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world’s heritage.”

While the white domed marble mausoleum is its most familiar component, the Taj Mahal is actually an integrated complex of structures. Building began around 1632 and was completed around 1653, and employed thousands of artisans and craftsmen. The Persian architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer of the Taj Mahal.