The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks... ...

Minuscule amounts of radioactive elements could safely power handheld electrical devices for months or even years, according to new research from the University of Missouri. ... Such electronics could help to eliminate mildly radioactive substances ...

Here is an amazing photo of stuntman Dar Robinson jumping into the grand canyon with his Bradley GT. Dar was an amazing stuntman, and here is a site about his exploits http://www.the-rocketman.com/Dar-R-gallery.html

Hands up if you like being tickled! ... These slow moving primates range from Borneo and the southern Philippines in Southeast Asia, through Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, India (North Eastern India, Bengal), southern China (Yunnan area) and Thailan...

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance of Pakistan's......

I worked as a greenkeeer in Ireland but thet thought never occured to me.

This is an amazing story. In 58BC the Swiss (Helvetti) tribes, all 368,000 people decided it would be nicer to live in what is now called France. So they all upped sticks and moved enmass, one huge convoy of tribes. ... Naturally the French were not...

So this elk thinks its alone and has a really good time splashing in a puddle. Animals have fun when no one is watching. http://www.youtube.com/v/rgNR-9dLclE&hl=en_US&fs=1&

Pool playing robot, and laser guided pool shots. Both these inventions are amazing, the pool playing robot, is just plain scary, while being given guidance as to how to play your shot with laser guides, is great. However thats what beer and pool... ...

Unbelievable pictures of what happens to a pitbull after tangling with a porcupine! ... The dog pictured is a female bull terrier named Inca who had her memorable encounter with a porcupine in May 2005: Inca apparently did not know when to quit w...

Really don't start, if you do, you'll regret it. I'm not joking, its a bad scene. Don't click the red button, please, for your own good, don't click that button. The one below, yeah that one, the red one, DON'T CLICK IT!!! ... ht...

This is something I had never seen before a snow plow train. Its interesting to see that the huge power of the train is still unable to stop it from getting stuck. ... I wonder what they would do next? Dig it out? Looking down the track it seem...

More complex than the space shuttle, and able to circumnavigate the globe without surfacing, the 7,400-ton monster is the largest and deadliest hunter-killer submarine ever built. ... As long as a football pitch, at 318ft, and as wide as four double-...

A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. ... http://www.youtube.com/v/jEjUAnP...

Tie a long string onto his collar, on the end put some tasty treat. run it around a central divide behind the dog until the treat is about 3 feet ahead of the dogs nose. Dog chases after it which is being pulled by his collar. There is something in.....