Beijing Olympic Closing Ceremony Photos

The Beijing Olympic Games ended with an amazing closing ceremony. The closing ceremony began in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in northern Beijing at 8 p.m. on Sunday. The grand event began amid a display of fireworks that form a huge circle in the sky which symbolizes the complete success of the Beijing Games.


The countdown to the closing ceremony started from the number 29, indicating the 29th Olympic Games. All the audience joined the countdown from 10, while the numbers were displayed by firework explosions in the sky. About 7000 individuals took part in the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games. If you missed it on the television, then this post is just for you. Take a look at these pictures from the closing ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games. Enjoy!















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Strongest Pensioner in Britain

This is Ged Mullane, a 75-year-old pensioner from Waterhead, who has been named the "Strongest Pensioner in Britain". He got the title after winning the British Bench Press Championships in the over-60 category by beating competitors up to 15 years younger than himself. Ged will now represent Britain in the European Bench Press Championships in the Czech Republic on 23 October.

Ged is a father of four children and have nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Before he took up weight lifting, the powerful pensioner was a member of the athletics team based at Salford Harriers. In 1983, he was in second position at the World Masters Power Lifting Championship in Canada. Now Ged hopes to win the European Bench Press Championships by lifting at least 105 kilos, which is around 16-and-a-half stone!

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Won a contest, Kiss a Horse!

Think twice before making a bet or getting into a contest! Otherwise, who knows when you will have to kiss a horse like Davis County Commissioner Alan Hansen did! Take a look at the photograph. It is real.

How all these started? A weight loss contest was the reason behind this horse smooch! The contest was between employees at Davis County and the Davis Hospital and Medical Center. As per the rules of the contest, members of the team that lost the most weight got to watch their boss kiss a farm animal.

This year, the county employees won and as a prize, their bosses, the county commissioners, kissed a cow during the County fair last week. But, Hansen missed out last week's lip lock with the cow. So, the employees brought Reno, a 3 -year-old horse and Hansel completed his task!

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2,500 years old Modern Gold Earings!

Take a look at the picture above. Looks like modern gold jewelry? Actually these earnings are 2,500 years old! Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov discovered these gold earrings along with a ring and other funeral gifts dating back to the 5th century B.C. while excavating an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Kushare, about 280km from Sofia, Bulgaria. Can you believe it?

Bulgaria and it's Black Sea coast is considered the birthplace of the world's metal production. Last year archeologist Georgi Kitov's team unearthed a gold mask belonging to a fourth century B.C. Thracian King in southeastern Bulgaria.

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Dog saves abandoned Baby

A dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby by placing him safely alongside her own new-born puppies. The baby is now fine and being looked after by local authorities. Can you believe this? Read on.

The baby was born prematurely to a 14-year-old girl in a town outside the capital, Buenos Aires. The girl is said to have panicked and abandoned the baby in a field, surrounded by wooden boxes and rubbish. Then La China, the eight-year-old dog, somehow spotted the baby in the rubbish and carried him about 50 meters to place alongside her own puppies.

According to news reports, the dog's owner discovered the baby after hearing the child crying. Interestingly, he found the child covered with a rag and there was no marks of dog bite. The 4kg (8lb 13oz) baby is now being looked after by the authorities.

This incident again proves that animals also have feelings like human beings. What you say? Link

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Big Catfish caught on Toy fishing rod

Can you catch a real and big fish with a toy fishing rod? Surely chances are very less. Well, it is not impossible also! A man in US has actually caught a record-breaking catfish with the help of a Barbie fishing rod.

How it happened? David Hayes and his 3-year-old granddaughter Alyssa were angling in the pond behind his Wilkes County home. Alyssa asked him to hold her 2-and-a-half feet long rod while she nipped to the loo and then the catfish hit the cricket. Hayes struggled for 25 minutes with the pink plastic toy and ultimately caught the 21 lbs, 1oz catfish.

Can you imagine this? A 32 inches long catfish caught with the help of a 30 inch long toy fishing rod! Later, a state fisheries biologist from North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has certified the big catch as a record. via Ananova

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Elvis and Priscilla Presley Barbie Dolls

Last week, a new set of Elvis and Priscilla Presley Barbie dolls were unveiled at the souvenir shop in Graceland. Take a look at the picture above. The beautiful dolls sport replicas of the outfits the couple wore on their wedding day in Las Vegas in 1967. The Elvis doll sports a black paisley-print tuxedo, while Priscilla's doll is wearing a white chiffon gown with a tiara and veil.


The dolls were unveiled to mark the anniversary of Presley's death on August 16, 1977. Each of the dolls costs $65 and currently they are available in limited numbers. Well, there are reports that they will be available in greater amounts later this year. So, if you are a fan of Elvis, don't miss it!

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New Insect Species discovered on eBay

A scientist in UK has discovered a new species of insect on eBay! How? Dr Richard Harrington of UK's Royal Entomological Society spotted a sample of fossilised insect encased in amber on eBay. Out of curiosity he ordered it by paying £20 to the Lithuanian seller and found that the fossilised insect is actually a long, extinct and previously unknown species of aphid.

The 3-4 mm long insect is encased in a 40-50 million year old piece of amber, about the size of a small pill. For proper identification, Dr Harrington sent it to fossil aphid expert Professor Ole Heie in Denmark. Heie confirmed that it was from a previously unknown species and named it Mindarus harringtoni after the name of Dr Harrington.

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Moisturizers linked to Skin Cancer!

A new study by Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., has found a link between several popular moisturizers and non-melanoma skin cancer in mice. Researchers tested skin moisturizing creams on mice to determine whether their use is linked to cancer. They exposed hairless mice to UV radiation to mimic sun exposure, and afterward treated the mice with one of four popular moisturizers - Dermabase, Dermavan, Eucerin or Vanicream.

They found that the mice treated with moisturizers after the exposure to UV light grew more skin tumors and that these tumors were larger than those on untreated mice. The tumor formation increased 69% in the mice that had been moisturized once a day, five days a week for 17 weeks.

Does it mean that moisturizers are harmful for human also? Well, the authors of the study, which was published online today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, say they can't conclude that moisturizers cause skin cancers in humans and further research needs to be done. But, the results of this study definitely raises some important questions regarding the increase in skin cancer cases over the last few years.

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Orion spacecraft launch delayed

NASA has announced that the launch of the Orion, the spacecraft designed to replace the space shuttle fleet, has been pushed back by one year. Now, NASA hopes that the Constellation Program will make its first flight to the International Space Station on or before 2014. Earlier the first flight of Orion was scheduled for September 2013.


The Orion is a part of the ambitious Constellation program, a NASA program that includes new launch vehicles and a lunar lander. As the present space shuttle fleet will be decommissioned in late September 2010, the new space crafts will re-supply the International Space Station and carry out other special missions such as landing on the moon. Until the Orion space crafts enters into service, NASA will have to depend on Russian Soyuz spacecrafts for supplying astronauts aboard the ISS.

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