Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 20, 2007 at 4:08:00 PM CET
NORAD TRACKS SANTA 2007
Welcome to the North Pole! Santa’s helpers are busy getting gifts ready for delivery on Christmas Eve to the good boys and girls around the world! Can you find out which shop in the village is the busiest today? When you do, click on the shop to discover a fun activity!!!
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 17, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CET
How the Nazis Stole Christmas
A seasonal tale of politics, propaganda and paganism in Hitler's Third Reich. If the Nazis were sworn enemies of Christianity, why were they so obsessed with Christmas? And how did they square celebrating the season of goodwill with their racialist policies?
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 14, 2007 at 2:12:00 PM CET
Top 10 famous celebrities arrested in 2007
Like most of the media world, we here at MTV News obsess and argue relentlessly over our year-end top 10s.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 14, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Top 10 Celebrity Sex Tapes in 2007 - links included.
Here’s a list of 10 celebrities who have sex tapes in circulation, or have rumored sex tapes that might surface anytime soon. This exclusive post was constructed from the list of articles in our archive.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 17, 2007 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Postcards of San Francisco
The following old postcards of San Francisco, CA provide a great visual look back at San Francisco's history.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 2, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Yoda Stamp
America voted, and the U.S. Postal Service will deliver the intergalactic results on Oct. 25, when an image of 900-year-old Jedi Master Yoda will be dedicated as a sheet of 20 stamps in New York City at Madison Square Garden. Since this 10 a.m. event is just six days before Halloween, stamp enthusiasts and Star Wars fans alike are encouraged to dress up as their favorite character from the Star Wars saga.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 1, 2007 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
10 Most Fascinating Tombs in the World
Throughout the history of human civilization, different cultures mourn and treat the dead differently. Some, like Tibetan Buddhists, have no use for burials as they dispose the dead by feeding corpses to vultures or by burning them in funeral pyres. Most cultures, however, show their respect by burying the dead, sometimes in complex and ornate tombs, crypts, and catacombs.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 17, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Classic video of split-brain patient online [video]
YouTube hosts a classic video of one of the famous 'split-brain' patients who had his corpus callosum surgically cut to treat otherwise untreatable epilepsy, effectively separating the two hemispheres of the brain.
This procedure is intended to stop seizures spreading across the brain and its effects were first studied in depth by Roger Sperry, who won a Nobel prize for his work demonstrating that the patients experienced, in certain situations, a sort of split consciousness.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 6, 2007 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
3,000-year-old beehives found in Israel
Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
The findings in the ruins of the city of Rehov this summer include 30 intact hives dating to around 900 B.C., archaeologist Amihai Mazar of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University told The Associated Press. He said it offers unique evidence that an advanced honey industry existed in the Holy Land at the time of the Bible.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 3, 2007 at 8:57:00 AM CEST
World's best whiskers vie for honors
One contestant had a mustache twisted into the shape of London's Tower Bridge; others sported bushy beards that would make Grizzly Adams envious. In the end, Beard Team USA nabbed four of the top honors — by a whisker — at the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
About 250 shaggy men from around the world competed Saturday in 17 different classes of facial hair at the competition in Brighton, England.
yahoo.com International ’stache bash a hair-raising eventlaughingsquid.comlaughingsquid.com 2It's a close shave, but the Germans boast some of Europe's wackiest beardsWhiskers Go Wild at World Beard, Mustache GamesWorld Beard And Moustache Championships 2003 German crowned world beard champion
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 31, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Top 10 Famous Hoaxes
Throughout the years many people have perpetrated hoaxes - often for publicity, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Of all the hoaxes through history, the ten in this list are the most famous. In at least two cases (the Book of Mormon, and the Priory of Sion) millions of people have been fooled - or continue to be fooled!
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 26, 2007 at 6:03:00 PM CEST
INDIA AFTER GANDHI - The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
Late in “A Suitable Boy,” Vikram Seth’s fictional panorama of early 1950s India, the difficult but decent politician Mahesh Kapoor receives advice from an underling: “We should think above divisions, splits, cliques! ... This is India ... the country where faction was invented before the zero. If even the heart is divided into four parts can you expect us Indians to divide ourselves into less than 400?
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