MISTELBACH, Austria – The town of Mistelbach decided to allow the installation of the statue in a local park because there are many fans of the singer in the area. Michael Jackson is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. According to a book by Margo Jefferson, “ Micheal Jackson became world-famous because he was a world-class talent. The other performers were aging, Micheal looked like a pristine creation, untainted by the past.” The statue in Mistelbach was erected in 2009, and the 300 kg statue has become a popular place for fans in…
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MADAGASCAR, East Africa – A new miniature species of chameleon where the male is much smaller but has unusually large genitals in order to have sex with the much larger female has been discovered during a recent research expedition in Madagascar. An international team of researchers, led by the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology from the German city of Munich, discovered the bizarre chameleon in the North of Madagascar, East Africa. The discovery was announced on Thursday and published in the open-access Journal of Scientific Reports. The joint team of scientists named the new species Brookesia nana. When asked about…
SEVILLE, Spain — A Roman fan made of ivory that belonged to a woman from the third century AD has been found in southern Spain and is believed to be the biggest ever. The student, who was doing his internship at the University of Seville, discovered the fan during a dig that started in 2005 at the archeological site of Italica located on Extremadura de Santiponce Avenue in the city of Seville, Andalusia. Marisol Gil de los Reyes, 62, director of the Archaeological Museum of Seville, informed that the fan arrived at the Museum in 2008 after a dig that…
CARECES, Spain – In a massive anti-fraud operation, 105 people have been arrested who used pre-authorized cards issued in the names of fake companies in the United States. They have been accused of scamming nearly GBP 11 million ($14.9 million) using the pre-authorized cards. The accused belong to a criminal organization, which leased a hotel business. They established themselves in the town of Miajadas in the province of Caceres in the south-western Spanish community of Extremadura. The racket reportedly used the hotel for its leading members as a refuge. They kept the cafeteria open to the public to go undetected.…
COLARES, Brazil – A 77-year-old woman, who discovered a treasure trove of 200-year-old coins in her back garden, has had to move out of town over safety fears. Hundreds of gold and bronze coins dating from Brazil’s colonial and imperial periods were found in the back garden of the unnamed old-age pensioners in the Brazilian municipality of Colares last month. The stash was named “treasure” by the Colares municipal council, and they sealed off the area in the hope that Brazil’s National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage would find more pieces, along with reducing the probability to deter treasure…
SAKHNA, Russia — The Russian Aerospace Forces – the aerospace forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1B from Site 43 of the Russian spaceport of Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the federal state of Sakha on Feb. 2. For the first time this year, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a space rocket from a snow-covered cosmodrome. The Plesetsk Cosmodrome is a 64-year-old Russian spaceport located in Mirny, 800 km north of Moscow, and was inaugurated in 1957. The Soyuz-2 is a modernized version of the Soyuz rocket developed by Russia. It is a three-stage launch vehicle for placing payloads…
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – Archeologists have unearthed golden “tongues” in unusual mummies in the ancient rock-cut tombs in Egypt. These 16 burial chambers from the Greco-Roman period, containing the mummies were discovered in western Alexandria, in Egypt. The archeologists found golden tongue-shaped amulets in the mouth of the mummies while inspecting the artifacts. The gilded tongues were reportedly placed inside the mouth of the dead at the time of burial. This is done as a part of the ritual. It is believed that the tongue was “placed in the mouth of the mummy in a special ritual to ensure their ability…
India’s central bank has projected a 10.5 percent growth in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the financial year 2021-22 (April-March). The projection is in line with estimates by the International Monetary Fund and the government’s Economic Survey, which pegged the GDP growth at 11.5 percent and 11 percent, respectively, for the financial year 2021-22. “The outlook on growth has improved significantly, with positive growth impulses becoming more broad-based, and the rollout of the vaccination programme in the country auguring well for the end of the pandemic,” said Shaktikanta Das, governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI). “Given that inflation has returned within…
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION – A rare video footage recorded from the space shows the orbital moonset that makes the moon appear as if it is melting as it dips out of view. The video of the incredible cosmic phenomenon shows the moon disappearing beyond the horizons of the earth. It starts slowly distorting and changing shape, before deflating and flattening out completely before it assumes the shape of a pancake and disappears in the dark. The scientific explanation behind the ‘melting moon’ caught on video is that the moon slowly disappears behind the earth’s horizon. The distortions are caused by…
DIJON, France — A secret message hidden in the walls of a church by a veteran soldier from the Crimean War, fighting the Russians side-by-side with the British, was discovered by a restoration worker. The chapel, Sainte-Croix-de-Jerusalem, situated in the town of Dijon in France is a 15th-century place of worship. The message, uncovered after 165 years, was written by Nicolas Godard, a stonemason and painter working in the city in the 1850s. A native of Moloy, a small village located to the north of Dijon, Godard mentioned in the message that he was first a sailor “fired from the…