Aug 30, 2011

Top 10 Best History Books

1. Necropolis:
Price: £7.99

London and Its Dead By Catharine Arnold From burial mounds to charnel houses, the capital's first crematoriumto the black crepe and floral tributes of East End memorials, Catharine Arnold's account of death in London is by turns fascinating, stomachchurning and poignant. She is especially good on the endlessly over-the-top Victorian funeral business.

2. Warsaw 1920:
Price: £14.99

Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe By Adam Zamoyski This slim work tells the story of a now largely forgotten battle that nearly shattered the peace of post-Versailles Europe and almost brought Russian Bolshevism to the gates of Western Europe. No dull military history, but rather a real page-turner.

3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
Price: £8.99

An Indian History of the American West By Dee Brown Charting the genocide of the Native American people, from the arrival of smallpox with the conquistadors to the final brutal massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890, this important book should be compulsory reading for all students of American history.

4. A People's History of the World
Price: £12.99

By Chris Harman By discarding a traditional narrative that concentrates on great men and dates, Chris Harman instead offers a politically conscious counterhistory of theworld. It is one that sweeps across the centuries and continents, charting how ordinary men and women transformed their societies through conflict and class struggle. A perfect read for armchair revolutionaries.

5. Empires of the Sea:
Price: £20

The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 By Roger Crowley Despite a title that ignores the Second World War, this book is a page-turning narrative of an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, while the tale of Barbarossa proves that pirates aren't just peg-legged buccaneers in the Caribbean.

6. Liberation:
Price: £25

The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944-1945 By William I Hitchcock In a history that jars with images of grateful civilians showering soldiers with flowers, William I Hitchcock's vivid account of post-war Europe paints a violent and chaotic picture of liberation and recovery. It should be essential reading for any leader hankering for regime change.

7. The Ascent of Money:
Price: £25

a Financial History of the World By Niall Ferguson The author suggests that the use of credit and debt has been "as important as any technological development". Hence our current difficulties: too little of one and too much of the other.

8. Clean:
Price: £12.99

An Unsanitised History of Washing By Katherine Ashenburg Who knew that keeping clean ? or not, in the case of Europeans during the Middle Ages ? could be so interesting? Or that our cult of hygiene can be traced back to America's early 20th-century advertising industry? This history of soap and water is a refreshing read.

9. Pompeii:
Price: £25

The Life of a Roman Town By Mary Beard Mary Beard uses the ancient relics buried by the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius to bring the existence of everyday Roman people to life. Covering everything from government to graffiti, Beard's work takes the humdrum of Roman domesticity and turns it into a compelling account of the life of one Roman town.

10. Henry:
Price: £25

The Virtuous Prince By David Starkey This, the first of two books on England's most famous king, Henry VIII, is undoubtedly among David Starkey's finest works. In a colourful study of the young Henry, he displays what one reviewer has described as "the mind of an historian but the eye of a court painter".
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Aug 9, 2011

Top 10 Bizarre Underwater Events

10. Underwater Dancing

9. Underwater Sword Swallowing

8. Underwater Hockey Gaming

7. Underwater Wedding

6. Underwater Tennis Match

5. Underwater Card Gaming

4. Underwater Music Festival

3. Cabinet Underwater Meeting

2. 500-Guest Underwater Dining

1. Underwater Pumpkin Carving

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Top 10 World's Youngest

10. World's Youngest IT Whiz (8yr)

Marko Calasan of Skopje, Macedonia, may be the world's youngest licensed desktop computer strategy administrator with the age of 8. He could get a high-paying career, but he hasn't still accomplished third grade! Marko figured out to browse and write in the age of two and begun working on computers quickly. The news of his extraordinary achievement turned him right into a nearby celebrity and he has even had an audience with the Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, who offered him with the IT lab with fifteen personal computers to practice on.

9. World's Youngest Sensible Shooter (6 yr)

On the age of six, Miko Andres from your Philippines is assumed to be the world's youngest competitive sensible shooter. Functional shooting is known as a sport during which participants shoot rapidly at various targets approximately an obstacle program.

8. World's Youngest Sake Professional (10 yr)

A 10-year old-girl happens to be Japan's youngest skilled on Sake, even with being far also youthful to drink the famed rice wine. Akane Niikura has passed the Sake Support Institute of Japan's examination once earning her knowledge to the historic Japanese tradition solely thru her feeling of smell alternatively than palate. The fourth-grader can now advise some others which form of sake complements specified meals.

7. World's Youngest Tattoo Artist (4yr)

Ruby Dickinson is just four a long time ancient but she is currently marking her mark with the globe - with tattoos. The ink-credible Welsh toddler could be the world's youngest tattoo artist, in accordance to printed studies. At an age when most youngsters only contemplate playground swings, Ruby normally requires tattoo lessons after nursery school. She also practices that has a toy kit in her father's tattoo shop.

6. World's Youngest Surfer (2yr)

Jaylan Amor is just two decades older, but is by now surfing the waves exterior of Brisbane, Australia, and has secured a number of endorsements from surf retailers. To catch a wave, his father paddles him out to sea, then the two year aged hops and rides the waves again into shore. Mr Amor isn't really concerned if Jaylan falls, since the tike just swims back again to his board and waits for daddy to help him back up.

5. World's Youngest CEO (14yr)

Sindhuja Rajaraman, a 14-year old woman happens to be the world's youngest Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The ninth ordinary student became the head of Seppan Organisation, an animation firm, in October 2010, set up by her father.

4. World's Youngest Wall Of Dying Motorbike Rider (17yr)

A 17-year-old woman left college to land her earliest employment since the world's youngest female Wall of Dying rider - devoid of a motorbike license. Jaimi Tyrrell joined a troupe of stunt riders immediately after completing her GCSEs and now tours the uk and Europe. The daredevil teen hits speeds of as much as 45mph to the vertical 20ft high wall as she rides horizontally round the 32ft broad cylinder.

3. World's Youngest Transsexual to possess Surgery (16 yr)

German teenager Kim Petras is the world's youngest operated transsexual when undergoing a surgery at the age of just sixteen. The method - carried out in solution and paid out for through the German well being company - was authorised when psychologists confirmed that she was "without doubt a lady inside a boy's body". It's the world's youngest at any time entire intercourse improve operation and Kim had been undergoing hormone therapy considering the fact that the age of twelve.

2. World's Youngest Yoga Teacher (6yr)

At just 6, Shruti Pandey would be the youngest yoga trainer while in the world. The bendy youngster has been teaching older people at an ashram, in northern India, for that final two ages. Her trainer, Hari Chetan, 67, build the ashram 35 ages in the past and once little Shruti grew to become one in all his students, as a tiny four-year ancient, he spotted her skills. Now she starts her lessons at five.30 am almost every early morning, at Brahmanand Saraswati Dham, with the Jhunsi town, dressed in white leggings including a red t-shirt surrounded by 30 eager pupils ranging from businessmen, lecturers, housewives to pensioners. Shruti reported: "It feels superior when people follow my recommendations, I experience like a authentic instructor."

1. World's Youngest Granny (25yr)

A 25-year-old Romanian housewife might be getting a grand previous honor: She's considered for being the world's youngest grandmother. The British tabloid The Sun studies that Rifca Stanescu had her earliest boy or girl, a daughter named Maria, at the age of twelve. Despite the fact that she urged the woman to not adhere to her illustration, Maria acquired with the family way when she was only eleven and gave birth to some son, Ion. Stanescu was only 23 when she grew to become a grandmother. Ion's now two, and Stanescu has combined emotions about being a grandmother at such a youthful age. “I am blissful to get a grandmother but wished far more for Maria,' she reported.
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Top 10 Weirdest Catwalk Shows

1. Underground Catwalk

The Underground Catwalk, at present in its sixth 12 months, happens to be an integral and well-known aspect for the Berlin Fashion Week exactly where models showcase styles from set up manufacturers and upcoming designers on an underground commuter prepare.

2. World's 2nd Longest Catwalk

Recently, the Copenhagen fashion Week took the notion from the catwalk and pushed it with the excessive, generating their runway styles stroll a tad much more than ordinary for the trend indicate and breaking a Globe Document from the procedure.

The Copenhagen trend week saw a variety of reveals and every single trend display offered something new and enjoyable. It absolutely was an individual exhibit yet that caught the spotlight as the principal style display for that celebration was held on a catwalk that spanned 1,609 metres very long. 250 versions took component on this specified trend exhibit and assisted break the record with the longest catwalk ever before to be erected in Europe. The catwalk took up most of Stroget Street, a well-known great stop vogue street in Denmark. Danish supermodel Helena Christensen was with the high of her online game as she kicked off the fashion show and walked elegantly down the
long catwalk.

3. Underwater Style Present

Types sporting conventional Korean Hanbock outfits created by Park Sul-nyeo plunge into an aquarium as part of an unconventional trend exhibit in Seoul to mark the opening of the new division keep.

4. Catwalk Runway on an Airport Runway

Storm Model Administration was not concerned with flyaway hair whenever they turned Gatwick airport's runway right into a trend runway. Lily Cole has swapped catwalk runways for those at an airport - to start a expertise research that will see new modelling careers take off. The flame-haired star kick-started Gatwick Runway Designs - a hunt for just a boy and a woman to win a different Faces agreement with prestigious design agency Storm. The winners could locate on their own following within the footsteps of Kate Moss, who was spotted at JFK airport in the US by Storm Product Management founder Sarah Doukas, by joining the supermodel jet set.

5. Terrific Wall of China Catwalk

At very well above one,500 miles it needs to be the longest catwalk in history, but that didn't discontinue designer Karl Lagerfield staging a present for Fendi about the Wonderful Wall of China in 2007. The show-stopping event was held on high for the historical structure, with spotlights lighting up the styles and casting the surrounding countryside into gloom. A part with the Entire world Heritage Internet page was prolonged even more into the mountains around the funds Beijing to generate the catwalk, by using a backdrop of open up sky.

6. Iceberg on the Catwalk

In 2010, Karl Lagerfeld and organization imported a 265 ton iceberg from Sweden for the Chanel AW/2010-2011 catwalk presentation throughout Paris Vogue Week. Throughout this amazing and titanic clearly show, styles for your illustrious French brand name walked with the melting ice water over the runway, presenting progressive knits and new types.

7. Naked Fashion Clearly show

The 2006 Naked Fragrance Fashion Clearly show hosted by Perfume Shop previewed nude models donning next to nothing but fragrances. The audience was blindfolded so that they wouldn't be distracted when they assessed each scent.

8. Burning Versions in the Catwalk

Burning Types in a very Fashion Demonstrate in 2008.

9. Bald and Bearded Types on the Catwalk

We've observed plenty of honestly insane stuff to the runway -- but Patrick Mohr's demonstrate at Mercedes-Benz Style Week in Berlin was outside of bizarre. With no hair on their heads -- but lots of on their experience -- Mohr's versions strutted their things though wearing a few of the weirdest makeup we've actually observed.

10. Catwalk for Rats

We could have showcased one or two strange important things about Rats right here in Oddee, but we haven't seen a rat vogue show well before, most definitely just one in NYC. These rats just want to have a bite from the huge apple and depart everyday people along with a long lasting impression. Dozens of furry rat lovers gathered with each other for your event with the world's Foremost Fancy Rat Convention. Ada Nieves is additionally attending the present with her array of garments that are put together for rats and rat proprietors all around you. Her creations are available as tuxes, wedding dresses, bridesmaids gowns, as well as other remarkable rat apparel. They operate about eighty bucks an outfit and feature each of the bells and whistles such as beads, feathers and other minimal tidbits.
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Aug 8, 2011

10 Most Beautiful Men in the world

10. Gaspard Ulliel

9. Mikus Lasmanis

8. Paul Walker

7. Josh Hartnett

6. Orlando Bloom

5. Chris Evans

4. Jake Gyllenhaal

3. Marlon Teixeira

2. Chris Hemsworth

1. Ryan Reynolds

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