In late March 2007, images of an 8-inch mummified creature resembling a fairy were posted on the website of the Lebanon Circle Magik Co.
Accompanying text explained how the creature had been found by a man walking his dog along an old roman road in rural Derbyshire. Word of this discovery soon spread around the internet. Bloggers excitedly speculated about whether the find was evidence of the actual existence of fairies.

By April 1 the Lebanon Circle website had received tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of emails. But at the end of April 1, Dan Baines, the owner of the site, confessed that the fairy was a hoax. He had used his skills as a magician's prop-maker to create the creature.

Baines later reported that, even after his confession, he continued to receive numerous emails from people who refused to accept the fairy wasn't real.

S O U R C E

Posted: 7:57:07 AM  

Growing pollution leads to "global dimming": study

Visibility on clear days has declined in much of the world since the 1970s thanks to a rise in airborne pollutants, scientists said on Thursday.

They described a "global dimming" in particular over south and east Asia, South America, Australia and Africa, while visibility remained relatively stable over North America and improved over Europe, the researchers said.

Posted: 7:29:13 AM  

Italian researchers believe they have found the remains of a female "vampire" in Venice, buried with a brick jammed between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century.

Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist from the University of Florence, said the discovery on the small island of Lazzaretto Nuovo in the Venice lagoon supported the medieval belief that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death.

But then again, be careful with messages like these: it's almost APRIL's FOOLs ...
;-)

Posted: 7:26:51 AM  

It is better to light candles than to curse the darkness.
It is better to plant seeds than to accuse the earth.
The world needs all of our power and love and energy, and each of us has something that we can give.

The trick is to find it and use it, to find it and give it away.
So there will always be more.
We can be lights for each other, and through each other's illumination
we will see the way.

Each of us is a seed,

a silent promise,

and it is always spring.

Merle Shain
inspirationpeak.com

Posted: 7:21:41 AM  

SeaWorld's amazing dolphin bubble show

"When the dolphins are blowing their bubble rings it looks as though they are blowing out a big puff of air out of their blowhole. They angle their heads down so that it comes out perfectly straight to create the ring."

The bubble-blowing dolphins are so popular they have a website dedicated to them called dolphin bubbles.com

Posted: 7:06:08 AM  

"This stuff (oil) is so hard to remove. Normal chemical detergent won't get it.

"If an animal like a bird gets oil on it, it basically dies. There's nothing we can do.

THIS IS NOT TRUE, CLICK ON THE LINK (dutch language) TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS GREEN PRODUCT and please pass it on so it can reach its destination:

Hyves - KC Het Beste Idee

KLUSCREME

SBS 6 / Dutch TV prgr with Klus Creme invention

Posted: 6:50:11 AM  

Police have made a number of arrests in connection with the 'serious threat involving explosives' which led to the evacuation of a number of offices an shops, including the Ikea furniture store, in Amsterdam Zuidoost on Thursday.

A concert by the US band The Killers at the nearby Heineken Music Hall has been cancelled because of the incident.

Nice 'SYNC' ...

Posted: 6:35:35 AM