The Weird and the Wonderful
Happy Earth Day. Earth Day is an event designed to raise awareness of the myriad of ecological dangers our planet, our home, currently faces. If you wish to join this American charity then you can do so online.
You don’t need to be in America in order to help promote Earth Day or save the planet. Here’s a tip for United Kingdom residents.
You can turn your old phone into cash and in doing so help recycle it in an environmentally friendly way.
Dreams in which you are bitten by a flying animal can be complex to decipher but often worth the attempt.
Dream catcher
Dream catcher
Being bitten is often a suggestion that there is an element of hostility being directed towards you.
However, this element of hostility can be very minor and almost trivial. Dreams in which you are bitten by flying insects or a flying insect often represent those situations where there is a nuisance in your life – either now, or coming – rather than anything more serious or sinister than that.
The Singapore newspaper Sin Chew Daily has reported that the National University of Singapore has been forced to warn students of a ghost of a headless woman who has been roaming the campus.
The signboard with the warning has been placed at the front entrance to the university’s Federal Building in the Bukit Timah campus.
British train ticket booking website thetrainline.com are using sheep to support their TV campaign.
Iain Hildreth, Director of Marketing at the trainline, said in this YouTube video that the sheep seemed to be enjoying themselves. Farmer Michelle Waterman, in the same video, explains that these sheep are used to wearing the jackets. It wasn’t made clear how long sheep wear show jackets for and how long they’ll wear the trainline jackets for each day.
A new documentary on Pendle Hill and the Pendle Witches was brought to a dramatic stop this week when three of the production crew were struck down with a violent illness. The incident happened during the filming of a séance.
Roy Basnett, the renowned broadcaster and ghost-hunter, and investigators from Pathfinder PI had been attempting to contact the spirits of the witches in a barn on the hill.
Turquoise is a good stone to wear for business trips; it helps for both money matters and travel. The Arabic name for it, Fayruz, means lucky stone and turquoise was sometimes known as the horseman’s talisman. Horsemen would wear it, mounted in gold, in order to protect themselves from falls. A second turquoise stone was […]
This week’s Extinction Sucks episode from WWF’s pioneering web video features Ashleigh Young and Aleisha Caruso raising awareness of the plight of Asiatic Black Bears.
In parts of South East Asia these bears are milked for their bile. The bear bile is believed to be a cure for fever. It is found in everything from tea to toothpaste. Despite how wide spread the practice has been and still seems to be – there’s no proven benefit.
Houses in Hatton, Warwick, England face the risk of flood after flytippers clogged a vital overflow ditch with hundreds of abandoned tyres.
The culvert at Brownleigh Green Lane, near the Waterman pub, has been visited by Warwick District Council environment officers who have spent hours trying to clear the blockage. The ditch is used as a vital overflow area for an active stream, with the tyres present and the ditch blocked the flood water heads straight for Hatton.
The fish and chip shop in Bridgwater, Somerset known as the Polar Bear Fish Bar, is being invested by paranormal investigators.
Staff at the chippy contacted BBC News after a series of unexplained events. One worker reported whistling in from the kitchen and another explained how a heavy pot was found on the floor. The BBC sent the cameras in and called in paranormal investor.
Flying Blue is the loyalty program from Air France and KLM. It was created in 2005 when the two airlines merged together and merged the Fréquence plus frequent flyer program with the Flying Dutchman frequent flyer program.
Kenya Airways, Air Europa, Aircalin and Northwest Airlines also make use of Flying Blue.
The frequent flyer program has four levels of membership. At the top there is the Platinum level (equivalent to SkyTeam Elite Plus), below that there is Gold (equivalent to Sky Team Elite), then Silver (Sky Team Elite) and the introductory level is Ivory (Basic).
