Many know this strong spirit, which promises a successful party, yet, few know interesting facts about this interesting drink. To start with – vodka has a dark history. It is considered that vodka is originally a Russian drink, but in the late 70s during the Cold War there was a big process about Poland claiming […]
2010
Here are a few suggestions for some new sports to be included in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler. These new sports will ensure that Canada “owns the podium” in 2010. The Bertuzzi Biathlon. This new sport is named in honour of one of Canada‘s greatest sporting icons, that true […]
History of the World – Part II
As you will remember from our previous chapter of “The Mid-Western History of the World”, just over seven thousand years ago Adam and Eve were deceived in the Garden of Eden by the theories of the evil serpent Charles Darwin and his corrupt, British sense of humour. Their indiscretions were punished by the Lord who […]
Dawn Boat Ride on the Ganges
As the fiery ball of the sun began to rise over the eastern bank of the Ganges on our left-hand side, the lighted candles on banana leaves, offered in prayer to the gods, started to float past our boat. The oars lapped gently in the water as the high stepped bank, on our right hand […]
Chivalry is dead
“Women belong in the kitchen!” screams a report from the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and with a heavy heart I concede that I’m forbidden to do the housework. Alas the metrosexual inside me wants to help out, honestly, but the chauvinist fascists at CRUK just won’t allow it. A recent study of over 200,000 women […]
Chief surgeon denies testicle fiasco
Rıza Sarıbabıçcı, chief surgeon of Konya Numune Hospital, on Sunday, December 17 rejected reports published in Turkish daily Hurriyet that female observant Muslim members of his staff refused an ultrasound to an adolescent male suffering from testicular torsion. The boy, Ali Faruk G., according to hospital registers, came to the hospital’s urology department seeking treatment […]