Posted on Wednesday, 1st September 2010 by Interloper
Shere Khan, the villanous tiger from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book was named after Sher Shah Suri, an Afghan who rose to prominence within the Mughal army and eventually became an Emperor. Renowned for his courage and strength, it was told that Sher Shah Suri once killed a tiger with his bare hands.
In 1537, Sher [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 4th August 2010 by Interloper
It seems that human beings and locusts might not be so different afterall: with a new study revealing that desperate locusts will eat each other if no other food is readily available.
This mildly disturbing information suggests that locust swarms move on to new locations so that they don’t have to eat each other… or get [...]
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Posted on Monday, 26th July 2010 by Interloper
The Chicxulub crater is largely regarded by scientists to be the remnants of collision that caused the mass-extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
The crater is located beneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has a diameter of more than 180 kilometres (that’d be around 110 miles). When the Chicxulub asteroid crashed into [...]
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Posted on Monday, 12th July 2010 by Interloper
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is responsible for helping to protect Earth from rogue comets that could otherwise spell destruction for our fragile blue globe.
Long-period comets that enter our solar system from deep space are deflected away from our planet by Jupiter’s immensely powerful gravitational field. One estimate claims that such comets [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th July 2010 by Interloper
A missing letter by a famous philosopher, a mathematics professor who doubles as a document thief and a journey across the seas to a new colony… such a story could have all the trappings of a Hollywood blockbuster. But just such a tale came to light recently when a lost letter by philosopher René Descartes, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 24th June 2010 by Interloper
Robert Pattinson, star of the Twilight Saga (not to mention the inappropriate dreams of teenage girls everywhere), has been linked to the most famous historical vampire of all time, Vlad Tepes, believed to have inspired Bram Stoker’s iconic vampire novel Dracula.
Vlad Tepes (or Vlad III) was the Prince of Wallachia from 1456 to 1461 and [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 10th June 2010 by Interloper
What could possibly be more appealing than a fungus that looks like raw meat?
“Why, there’s simply nothing that would be so grand as a fungus resembling raw meat!” Is what I’m sure you’re thinking… and that’s a good thing because such an oddity actually exists, in the form of Fistulina hepatica, otherwise known as Beefsteak [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 2nd June 2010 by Interloper
By now you’ve probably already seen terrifying pictures of the Guatemalan sinkhole.
Severe tropical storms are believed to have triggered the appearance of the 30-metre-deep (almost 100 feet) hole, which swallowed a three-storey building and left an eerily symmetrical wound in the Earth. Surprisingly, no human lives were lost, despite unsubstantiated reports by a local newspaper [...]
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Posted on Monday, 31st May 2010 by Interloper
Thunderclap isn’t just a noise you might hear during a storm, nor is it only a place in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. As it turns out, Thunderclap is also the name of an obscure Marvel Comics character who first appeared in Spider-Man Weekly back in 1984.
Now this might not seem important to you, but [...]
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Posted on Friday, 28th May 2010 by Interloper
“Pagan island isn’t hostile”, reads a 1970 headline from the Boca Raton News, before going on to say that you can visit Pagan Island “without fear of being sacrificed to the gods or being chased by hostile natives”.
Ah, the 70’s… such a simpler time.
Anyway, Pagan Island is awesome and I want it. Plus I realised [...]
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