Showing posts with label Facts and News to know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facts and News to know. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
like, SERIOUSLY ?!
A Terrifyingly Accurate Prediction by Edgar Allan Poe

In 1838, future horror-god Edgar
Allan Poe released a book called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket, his only full novel. The book was such a bomb that Poe
eventually agreed with his critics that it was "a very silly book".

Where it Gets Weird:
Poe did a Blair Witch thing
with his novel, which claimed to be based on true events. This turned out to be
a half-truth: The real life events simply had not happened yet.
One scene in The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket visits a whaling ship lost at sea, taking
with it all but four crewmen. Out of food, the men drew lots to see who would
be eaten, the unfortunate decision landing on a young cabin boy named Richard Parker.
Forty-six years later, there was an
actual disaster at sea involving the Mignonette. It became famous due to
the legal consequences of some gruesome events on board, specifically the way
the men drew lots and decided to eat their cabin boy...
Where it Gets Even Weirder:

...who was named Richard Parker.
The bizarre story was discovered
decades later by Nigel Parker, a distant cousin of the Richard Parker who got
eaten.
And that would go down as the
freakiest unintentional prediction of future events in a work of fiction, if it
were not completely blown away by...
Morgan Robertson Writes About the Titanic... 14 Years
Early

A hundred years before James Cameron
turned douchebaggery into an art form at the Oscars, American author Morgan
Robertson wrote a shitty book called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, about
the sinking of an "unsinkable" ocean liner. When you see the cover,
you figure you're pretty clearly looking at a fictionalized version of the Titanic
story.

No surprise there; it's a story
that's been told over and over (there were 13 Titanic movies before Cameron's,
including one by the Nazis) but Robertson's book was first.
Where it Gets Weird:
He was so eager to be first,
apparently, that he didn't bother to wait for the Titanic to actually sink
before writing about it. The Wreck of the Titan was published in 1898,
14 years before RMS Titanic was even finished being [cheaply] built.
The similarities between Robertson's
work and the Titanic disaster are so astounding that one has to imagine
if White Star Line built Titanic to Robertson's specs as a dare. The Titan
was described as "the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works
of men," "equal to that of a first class hotel," and, of course,
"unsinkable".
Both ships were British-owned steel
vessels, both around 800 feet long and sank after hitting an iceberg in the
North Atlantic, in April, "around midnight." Sound like enough to
keep you up at night? Maybe that's why Robertson republished the book in 1912
just in case enough people didn't know that he wrote it.
Where it Gets Even Weirder:
While the novel does bear some
curious coincidences with the Titanic disaster, there are quite a few
things that Robertson got flat wrong. For one, the Titanic did not crash
into an iceberg "400 miles from Newfoundland" at 25 knots. It crashed
into an iceberg 400 miles from Newfoundland at 22.5 knots.
But maybe the weirdest thing about Titan
were points that had nothing to do with the story, but check out after numerous
inquires and expeditions to the Titanic wreck site.
For one, both the Titan and
the Titanic had too few lifeboats to accommodate every passenger on
board; the Titan carrying "as few as the law allowed." While Robertson
decided to be generous and include four lifeboats more on his ship than
Titanic, it's an odd point to bring up when you consider that lifeboats had nothing
to do with the story. When Titan hit the iceberg (starboard bow,
naturally), the ship sank immediately, making the point made about lifeboats
inconsequential.
Source:
www.cracked.com
Friday, 14 September 2012
Macaulay Culkin Death Hoax
The rumor has been passing around that Macaulay Culkin has passed away at the age of 32 due to Heroin addiction.
News of actor Macaulay Culkin’s death spread quickly throughout the social media world on Sunday. Amid an influx of celebrity death hoaxes recently, many insisted this celebrity death was not a hoax. Despite this, the reported death of Macaulay Culkin is a mere hoax once again.
Ironically, just a day earlier saw reports of Culkin’s vastly improved appearance, such as this report which shows Culkin introducing an art display.
The lack of any such report by TMZ or any major news organization only bolster the fact that Macaulay Culkin’s reported death is a hoax.
source: http://wafflesatnoon.com
Sunday, 26 August 2012
RIP - Neil Armstrong :(
Andwaeeee !
Today’s the last holiday and bio test is waiting
tomorrow
*asdfghjkl*
Please come back soon holiday :(
I NEED YOU ! *GRAWR*
Btw, goodbye Neil Armstrong
You’ve been amazing for your whole life :D
You gave us such a big spirit that nothing’s impossible
You’ve made all of the world proud of you
Your one little step, is the world’s big step
Rest in Peace – Neil Armstrong
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Yahoo !
just read this news from yahoo
and gosh it's unbelievable crazy + awful !
and gosh it's unbelievable crazy + awful !
A Mom from Thailand Eat Her Own Children
She ate her children which is only 5 and 1 year old
how could this even possibly happen !
it's crazy SERIOUSLY
it makes no sense at all
*geez*
by the way, the holiday is going to end REALLY SOON :'(
aaaaaaaaaaaarghhh
tomorrow's the last day
and still having billion tasks undone !
math bio pkn and blablabla
*GRAWR*
whre has my holiday gone ? #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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