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77th Menton Lemon Festival 2010 in FranceThe 77th Lemon Festival takes place from 12 February to 3 March 2010. Each year the festival follows a given theme, this year it is “Menton does cinema”. The Lemon Festival attracts each year more than 230,000 visitors. It’s the second biggest event on the Riviera after the Carnival [...]

The Hollywood Walk of Fame celebrates its 50-year anniversary this week. Although a big block-party-style bash is scheduled for later this summer after some much-needed renovations are complete, the actual construction kickoff happened on February 8, 1960, with the star ceremony taking place the following day. Since Hollywood’s celebration is still a few months away, [...]

Last year NASA and the European Space Agency announced plans for a joint effort to seek out life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Scientists believe Europa c…

Zara Hartshorn 13 Year Old Girl that Looks 30 Years OlderZara lives at home with her mom, sisters and a brother. There is, of course, the usual rough-and-tumble and sibling bickering one would expect in a large family. But, Zara said, she feels safe and loved. No one makes fun of her, unlike every time [...]

Last year, Chesley Sullenberger saved the day when he landed a crippled passenger jet on the frigid Hudson River. This year we have Frank Vogt, a traffic reporter’s pilot whose Cessna lost oil pressure 1200 feet off the ground. In the early dawn darkness, that ground looked like one big mass of black void… except [...]

Last year, organizers at the Rocks Aroma Festival in Sydney, Australia, made an enormous image of the Mona Lisa using thousands of cups of coffee lightened with milk (to varying quantities) in order to create different shades: The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk to each cup of black coffee. It [...]

On February 2nd of every year, people wait to see if their local groundhog comes out of its winter nest. The superstition says that if the groundhog sees its shadow, it will be scared and run back into hiding, and we will have six more weeks of bad weather. If the groundhog stays out, better [...]

Later this year the world’s most powerful laser will attempt to achieve a self sustaning nuclear fusion reaction. Often regarded as the holy grail of …

Last night’s full moon was the biggest one of the year (by 14%) and also the brightest (by an impressive 30%). The Moon’s remarkable luminosity sprung from its proximity–about 50,000 km closer to Earth than other full Moons of the year. This can happen because the Moon’s orbit is not a circle but an ellipse: diagram. [...]

Miss Japan 2010Sophia University student Mina Hayashi, 23, won this year’s Miss Japan Grand Prix Final held in Tokyo on Monday.Hayashi could not hold back her tears when her name was announced as the winner.”A new door has opened for me today,” she said during her acceptance speech. “I would like to do my best [...]