I wrote a post recently about Saparmurat Niyazov, one of the craziest despots in living memory. His reign over Turkmenistan was cut short by an eagerly awaited heart attack in 2006. His successor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow spent some...
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First days at a new job are pretty terrifying, that’s a given, there’s no way around it. Some things in life are just scary. So, you have to give newbies a bit of...
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The International Space Station (ISS) has been whipping around the Earth tens of times a day for decades. Canadian astronaut Colonel Chris Hadfield spent some time up there, conducting experiments and staring out...
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Let’s take a look at a juggling competition, shall we? I haven’t looked into the rules thoroughly (or at all), but it seems to consist of teams of jugglers trying to knock each...
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Recently, North Korea have been busy puffing out their chests and threatening the wider world with destruction. No change there, then. King Jon-un, son of Kim Jong-il, has even less tact than his father,...
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When I think of Russian street art, I think of blood-red words splattered on the walls of a military complex, or swear words marker-penned onto people’s front doors. That’s not what I actually...
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Some time back, a gentleman was on his way to a fishing spot near Lake Shestakov, Belarus with a couple of friends. He spotted a beaver at the side of the road and...
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You’ve probably already heard this story 4 or 5 times, but in case you missed it, here are the bones; it’s very simple: A BLOKE FROM BUENOS AIRES THOUGHT HE WAS BUYING POODLES,...
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The internet is the home of truly free speech. It doesn’t matter how bonkers, barmy or banal your opinion, on the www you can nestle it next to the rest of the herd’s...
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The Octobass is a huge musical instrument. It’s shaped like a cello but it’s almost twice the size and, consequently, the tone is twice as deep. The lowest string is tuned a full...
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