Of the 25 million Italians in the USA today, 18 million are of Sicilian origin ( Read more... )

Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads of any country in the world, with approximately 13% of the population having naturally red hair ( Read more... )

The strange and the kinky: Sexual customs around the world ( Read more... )

I just read an article and want to immortilize part of it here. So let's go back to the basics for a minute. It's interesting to see some post year 2000 numbers. Everything that follows is taken from said text (short of my evil comments of course, hihi ( Read more... )

Mexican folk music next door has been playing *all day long* as another living space is being renovated by Mexican workers. I liked the music for the first 2 hours, hated it for the next 4 and liked it again for the last 2. Now they've left and taken their fiesta with them... And it suddenly feels lonely ( Read more... )

Mothers expect Damien on 6/6/06 Tony Allen-Mills


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Ghost fears keep visitors from Thailand
By William Foreman, Associated Press

HONG KONG - Worries about another deadly tsunami are keeping many tourists from Phuket, the premier resort island of southern Thailand. But hordes of Asian vacationers are staying away for another reason: Fear that the ghosts of thousands of victims may be haunting the ( Read more... )