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Regular readers of my blogs know how much I detest scammers, so it should come as no surprise that I love it when a scammer gets caught in the act.
The Internet has made scamming a lot easier and much safer for today’s scammers, resulting in the vast majority of scams being perpetrated online in recent years.
However, there are still plenty of phone scams being carried out as well. [Read more…]
I have always been fascinated by child prodigies, those rate and very special kids who know things and can do things as a child that most adults will ever know or be able to do.
Every one of these supremely gifted children possess amazing abilities that most of us can barely comprehend, let alone match.
The short video below features Friedrich Wendt, an incredible young boy who was born in Germany but now lives in Roanoke, Virginia. [Read more…]
Question from Jane: Last night on the news they reported that two small planes had crashed into each other as they were approaching our local airport.
One of the planes managed to land safely but the pilot of the other plane was violently ejected from his plane by the force of the crash.
He fell about 2,000 feet without his parachute ever opening. Sadly, he didn’t survive.
That got my husband to wondering if anyone has ever survived a fall from such great heights without using a parachute, and now I’m wondering the same thing.
Do you know if such a thing has ever happened? [Read more…]
As a youngster, I really loved the game of baseball.
I could rattle off all manner of obscure stats about the leading Major League players, and I could name all the players on my favorite teams, right down to the rarely-seen bench warmers.
In fact, I could even name even quite a few of the hopefuls that were working their way up through the Minors.
Of course like all baseball fans I had my favorite players, and one of my favorites of all time was Yankee great Yogi Berra. [Read more…]
Chances are you’re familiar with several stories about giants, including the biblical Goliath who the young lad David slew with a single stone hurled from his trusty slingshot.
According to his description in 1 Samuel 17, Goliath’s incredible height was “six cubits and a span”. That equates to a mind-boggling 9 feet and 9 inches.
I know, it’s hard to imagine a human being ever managing to grow to a height of 9 feet. After all, even the tallest NBA players are over a foot shorter than that.
But truth be told, on extremely rare occasions humans do grow to about that height. [Read more…]