In pictures: Strange, but true stories of the week
26 Oct 2013 8:24 PM IST26 Oct 2013 8:24 PM IST
In pictures: Strange, but true stories of the week
This picture is used for representation purpose only. Photo: DC file photo- A record 21,000 mothers took part in a mass breastfeeding event in the Philippines this week. Promoters of the event say the event was an effort to stress the importance of breastfeeding infants. This widely conservative and largely Catholic country
- American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, best known for his uncanny ability to work on the 'future', has been unveiled as the mystery buyer of the iconic Lotus Espirit vehicle from the 1977 James Bond film 'The Spy Who Love Me'. The billionaire has
- Almost everyone knows what happened with the Titanic. A good part of this lot will remember the bandmaster of Titanic, Wallace Hartley, who tries to soothe passengers and crew of the damned ship by playing on with his violin, even as the ship sinks
- The man lost the lucky draw to government run cemeteries since the application he received was in Chinese. Not being a Hindu, he is unable to use the Indian Hindu burial sites. Not being an ethnic Chinese, he wasn't sanctioned the Chinese Christian
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- The charkha (spinning wheel) used by Gandhi while he was in the prison at Pune during India's freedom struggle, was given to the American Free Methodist missionary Revd Floyd A Puffer. Puffer was a pioneer in Indian educational and industrial
- One of Mahatma Gandhi's most prized possessions, the 'charkha' he used in Yerwada Jail, will go under the hammer at a prestigious British auction house on November 5 with the minimum bid set at 60,000 pounds.
- The robot was modelled in some physical aspects after Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, in Switzerland, who wears one of the world's most advanced bionic hands. The bionic man has the same prosthetic hand as Meyer -
- Scientists have developed the world's first robot human made entirely of prosthetic parts and he can walk, talk and even has a beating heart. The robot, which cost almost USD 1 million to build, was assembled from prosthetic body parts and
- Now there's a 'gold standard' for toilets. An Australian firm has come up with loo paper made of gold. Gift-wrapped along with a bottle of shampagne, the product is '100 pc usable and safe'. Well, at $1.3 mn, this gift (if ever you feel like gifting
- In a bizarre incident, a woman delivered a child inside the toilet of a moving train. More bizarre is the fact that the baby slipped down the drain pipe ending up on the track. Luckily, the baby remained unhurt and was recovered from the tracks
- British-Indian singer Navin Kundra sung Kishore da's classics at the event hosted by the Prince and wife for the members of Indian and Sri Lankan communities in the UK. The duo will be undertaking a tour of South Asia next month, spending over a
- It is said that nobody can resist Kishore Kumar's songs. True or not, the saying came true in the case of UK's Prince Charles and wife Camilla, who were seen tapping to the tunes of the legend at a recent event at St. James Palace in London. What
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In pictures: Strange, but true stories of the week
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