Six Curious Facts About The FIS Alpine Ski World Championship
The FIS Alpine Ski World Championships have been running for 80 years. There were a few curious instances in that time. They include time differences between winners and runners up of almost 30 seconds, the championship that never was, one without snow, and the man who became women’s world champion.
Flying Without a Permit
When flying was all new and shiny, it was also still in paradise. There were no permits to get and no exams to pass; you just got into your flying machine and took off. But paradise ended when the snake came in; this snake took the form of an international body which started to issue permits.
How Not to Win a Grand Slam
Andy Murray is following in Roger Federer’s and Rafael Nadal’s footsteps. He just broke the first long standing tennis record. He is the first player to have lost his first three appearances in a grand slam final without winning a single set. That is not the kind of record to inspire confidence in his ability to win one.
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| Andy Murray |
10 Best Earning Corpses
They are dead and earn millions every year. Celebrities from the recent and not so recent past are still generating huge income. Meet the ten corpses who earn more in a year than you will in a lifetime. Some of their names you will easily recognize, some of them maybe not.
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| Heath Ledger |
Why James Bond is Eternal
The Man With The Golden Touch: How The Bond Films Conquered The World by Sinclair McKay was published by Aurum. Just one more writer jumping on the marketing train of Quantum of Solace? Not quite.
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| Sean Connery |
Pomp and Circumstance for Haider
Jörg Haider’s funeral brings 30,000 people to Klagenfurt, many of them Nazis. The press ignores this and concentrates instead on defamation of gays and gay lifestyle.
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| Jörg Haider |
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