Archives December 2007
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Levitation Photo: Colin Evans Levitating in 1938. Levitation is a word that came into English probably around 1870es from spiritistic circles. They coined the term from latin word levitas meaning "lightness" to denote the feeling when some object or person seems to lose its weight and starts floating in the air. Before this, when saints like St. Theresa or Saint Joseph of Cupertino were floating in mid air - people... Read on |
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A Haunted Swing in Firmat, Argentina? Firmat, a quiet city in Argentina has recently come under media spotlight and gathered quite a following on YouTube. A swing on the children's playground started swinging on its own as we can see in the video below. Note that one person stops the swing but after a short while it slowly starts swinging again while the other two next to it stay still.... Read on |
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Teacher In Trouble Over Faust Opera We all believe that witch hunts are a thing of the past and can not really happen in our time. In fact, they only happen in different shape and form. In 2006 it happened to Tresa Waggoner, an opera singer who was teaching first through twelfth grades in Bennett, Colorado. It started when Opera Colorado's educational outreach team scheduled a visit to her school. To introduce the students to... Read on |
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Magnetic Personality? No, Really Magnetic People Everyone heard about people who have "magnetic personality", but when you meet Liew Thow Lin, a 70-year-old retired contractor from Malaysia, this expression gets a whole new meaning. Metal objects are actually sticking to his body which earned him a nickname "magnet man" in some media. He says he noticed that ability quite a while ago while he worked as a contractor and tools would stick to him. You... Read on |
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