The Ashes

Bridal shower invitations are not something some people would put a lot of thought into. After all the wedding is the most important day right? But buying bridal shower invitations should be treated somewhat the same. Do you just want to go out and buy a package at your nearest shopping center? You should do [...]

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Glazed quartz In ancient Egypt, glazed quartz served as a substitute when no high quality examples of Turquoise could be found. The Greeks had originally named quartz, krystallos, the word for ice, but this soon came to mean any crystal. In China’s Ming Dynasty, quartz often showed up as stone in jewelry work. In Pre-Columbian [...]

A few thousand years ago, someone living in what is now Ireland made some butter, stuck it into an oak barrel, wandered out into a bog about 25 miles west of Dublin, and buried it. Somehow, that someone lost track of it, which two lucky archaeologists discovered when they dug up the stashed loot earlier [...]

Okay, so late last night we covered the early Lotus Esprits and their fictional white submersible doppelganger. The submarine Esprit in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me was obviously fictional–a creation of late 1970s special effects. But what if an actual vehicle could be made to convert seamlessly from car to submarine? [...]

The ’60s are over, and no amount of artists’ renderings is going to bring back the Apollo days if NASA’s budget doesn’t get a big boost. That’s the key message from the independent panel chartered to rethink NASA’s future. The Review of Human Space Flight Plans group is also looking at a variety of imaginative [...]

Feeling blue? These photographic gems of colourful characters come from the facesinplaces places. Here are a few of our favourites… Might he be the happiest pretzel you’ve ever seen? ”Oh, I say! A bit of a flake “Blergh! I hate soap!” Feeling wired! What a deck head! A grubby little fellow A frosty phantom “Get [...]

Hamburgers, next to apple pie and statins they’re the ambassadors of American cuisine–for better or for worse–and these harbingers of heart disease might be the baddest of all. Here are 10 over the top hamburgers that are guaranteed to clog your arteries by just looking that them: 1. The Quadruple Bypass Burger The Quadruple Bypass [...]

Diamonds are one of the most treasured stones. Their sheer beauty is astonishing and over the centuries their symbolism has become renowned. Thus it has become every woman’s desire to own at least one diamond. Famous diamonds have become famous because they are so unique and beautiful and because their stories are fascinating. There is [...]

Bernard Madoff – the former money manager and Wall Street darling was sentenced to 150 years in prison with no parole on June 29, 2009 for orchestrating a $65bn Ponzi scheme – the biggest fraud in US history. More than 1,300 investors were drawn in over many years, with many facing financial ruin as a [...]