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Want to have a real blast for the holidays? Why not visit Wunderland, an amusement park built within SNR-300. SNR-300, is an old nuclear power plant built in 1972, and that was never actually finished. The project was iced completely in the late 1980s after the Chernobyl accident and...
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With the Women’s World Cup around the corner, Germans are searching for the next future predicting octopus since Paul the Octopus died last October. For those who don’t remember, Paul correctly predicted the winner of every game Germany played during the Men’s World Cup last year. Well, there are...
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It’s another case of a Facebook party invite going wrong. And it’s a big reminder that if you’re using the social networking site to invite friends to your birthday remember to mark it private or you could get hundreds of “friends” you’ve never even met. 1,500 teens and young...
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A good insurance salesman in America might have health insurance, retirement, and shareholding options, but it still doesn’t match the perks offered by one German insurance agency. A division of Munich Re has admitted to organizing an orgy for its top salesmen in 2007, held at the Hungarian Art...
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And the cow jumped over the fence… with her golden haired rider in saddle on top. If it sounds funny it isn’t to 15-year old Regina Mayer. It’s reality for the German teen. And she’s proud of the cow she rides. It all started 2 years ago after her...
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Radio contests come in all shapes and sizes but one at Radio Galaxy in Germany has memorable memorial written all over it. More than 600 people have entered a contest to win money to cover their funeral by writing their own epitaph for their gravestone. The lucky winner will...
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For most of us, paper airplanes are a somewhat entertaining waste of time and paper. For Project Space Planes, which seeks to grab a world record for the longest flight by a paper plane, they are quite serious business indeed. From an altitude of 36,500 feet over Germany, two...
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Frederic von Anhalt, the count husband of the gravely ill 93-year-old actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has said that he hopes to have her plastinated after she dies. He told the Bild: My wife has always dreamt that her beauty would be immortal. I would like to show the plastinated...
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Just when you thought you had heard everything, news out of Germany is that a teacher is suing a 16-year-old-student for teasing her about an alleged phobia of rabbits. The teasing included, according to the teacher, drawing one on the class blackboard. De Spiegel reported that the teacher fled in tears when she saw...
Want to have a real blast for the holidays? Why not visit Wunderland, an amusement park built within SNR-300. SNR-300, is an old nuclear power plant built in 1972, and that was never actually finished. The project was iced completely in the late 1980s after the Chernobyl accident and...
With the Women’s World Cup around the corner, Germans are searching for the next future predicting octopus since Paul the Octopus died last October. For those who don’t remember, Paul correctly predicted the winner of every game Germany played during the Men’s World Cup last year. Well, there are...
It’s another case of a Facebook party invite going wrong. And it’s a big reminder that if you’re using the social networking site to invite friends to your birthday remember to mark it private or you could get hundreds of “friends” you’ve never even met. 1,500 teens and young...
A good insurance salesman in America might have health insurance, retirement, and shareholding options, but it still doesn’t match the perks offered by one German insurance agency. A division of Munich Re has admitted to organizing an orgy for its top salesmen in 2007, held at the Hungarian Art...
And the cow jumped over the fence… with her golden haired rider in saddle on top. If it sounds funny it isn’t to 15-year old Regina Mayer. It’s reality for the German teen. And she’s proud of the cow she rides. It all started 2 years ago after her...
For most of us, paper airplanes are a somewhat entertaining waste of time and paper. For Project Space Planes, which seeks to grab a world record for the longest flight by a paper plane, they are quite serious business indeed. From an altitude of 36,500 feet over Germany, two...