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What Are The Best Gadgets Available This Christmas?
1 week ago - 1 answer
It's been a tough 2009 for many of us which means you might be celebrating Christmas with an orange and big bag of humbugs. If, however, you do have a bit of spare cash stuffed down the back of the sofa you might be interested to know what the must have gadgets of 2009 are. In alphabetical order, here are a few:
Amazon Kindle
Reading books is so last century. Now everyone is reading computer screens. Or they will be. 2009 is set to be the year of the e-reader and Amazon's Kindle is proving to be the one thing people are really really talking about. The Kindle can hold a staggering 1,500 books (isn't that a town library?), is wireless and requires no contact with any computer. Ever. What's more the reader is lighter than an average paperback and is supposed to stay charged for days. The screens read more...
Amazon Kindle
Reading books is so last century. Now everyone is reading computer screens. Or they will be. 2009 is set to be the year of the e-reader and Amazon's Kindle is proving to be the one thing people are really really talking about. The Kindle can hold a staggering 1,500 books (isn't that a town library?), is wireless and requires no contact with any computer. Ever. What's more the reader is lighter than an average paperback and is supposed to stay charged for days. The screens read more...
answer by Anthonymac 1 week ago
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What Films Have Been Banned Worldwide?
2 months ago - 1 answer
Over the years, there have been many films that have caused controversy, resulting in some of them being banned outright in particular countries. Whilst there aren’t many films that have been banned in every single country, there are ones that were so controversial at the time of their release that they still remain banned in particular countries today.
In the UK, several films in the 1980s were dubbed “video nasties” due to the amount of violence in them. The majority of these were horror films that were not well known and many were outright banned in the UK and in other countries.
Here are some of the most controversial films to be released:
I Spit on Your Grave
“I Spit on Your Grave” is a 1970s horror film that focuses on the theme of revenge. The story centres on a read more...
In the UK, several films in the 1980s were dubbed “video nasties” due to the amount of violence in them. The majority of these were horror films that were not well known and many were outright banned in the UK and in other countries.
Here are some of the most controversial films to be released:
I Spit on Your Grave
“I Spit on Your Grave” is a 1970s horror film that focuses on the theme of revenge. The story centres on a read more...
answer by Louise_gorman 2 months ago
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What Happens When Animals Are Introduced To New Environments?
1 week ago - 1 answer
Through evolution, plants and animals have learned to better adapt to their surrounding ecosystems. Eventually, human hubris intervenes as we attempt to shift what we consider the best parts of various ecosystems in to vastly different ones. Sometimes the results work out well. For example, the sweet and delicious yellow bananas we all eat would not exist if it weren’t for human tampering. But sometimes, shifting an animal in to a new environment for the betterment of human kind doesn’t always work out very well…
New Zealand Imports Opossums, Stoats and Rabbits
For millions of years New Zealand had a relatively small number of species. In fact, for nearly 80 million years New Zealand had only 4 types of mammal and they were all just different species of bat. By the time the 1800s rolled read more...
New Zealand Imports Opossums, Stoats and Rabbits
For millions of years New Zealand had a relatively small number of species. In fact, for nearly 80 million years New Zealand had only 4 types of mammal and they were all just different species of bat. By the time the 1800s rolled read more...
answer by Limpl0uie 6 days ago
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How Do Fast Food Restaurants Make Fast Food?
6 days ago - 2 answers
Fast food restaurants are complicated places. Take a typical menu: Burger, fries and a fruit flavoured milkshake. All you really need to make this menu in your home is beef, potatoes, some oil, milk, ice cream, and fruit. That seems to be six ingredients. But this is not the way fast food restaurants like to do things. A fast food restaurant is much more like a science lab than a kitchen. Here are some of the strange and frankly scary things that go on in nearly every fast food restaurant you will ever visit.
HamburgersGenerally speaking hamburgers start off simple and then get very, very complicated.
A plain old hamburger for example will contain beef, bread, pickle, ketchup, mustard, onion and salt and pepper. Easy. Although that bun alone contains some twenty to thirty ingredients including read more...
HamburgersGenerally speaking hamburgers start off simple and then get very, very complicated.
A plain old hamburger for example will contain beef, bread, pickle, ketchup, mustard, onion and salt and pepper. Easy. Although that bun alone contains some twenty to thirty ingredients including read more...
answer by Anthonymac 6 days ago
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What Are Some Of The Most Unusual Records To Be Entered Into The Guinness Book Of World Records?
3 weeks ago - 1 answer
There are many unusual records that people have broken. Here a selection of some of the strangest:
Most Cockroaches Eaten
Ken Edwards from Derbyshire in the UK broke this record when he managed to consume 36 cockroaches in one minute. He achieved this on the set of the UK breakfast show The Big Breakfast in 2001. As well as cockroach eating, Ken also participates in a number of other unusual acts,including placing a large number of rats down his trousers.
Ken now eats cockroaches regularly, stating that they are an essential part of his diet due to him having a hernia. He states that the cockroaches, when cooked, “taste like bacon” and that their scent, which they use against predators, acts as an anaesthetic to his throat.
To add to his antics, Ken has even had fangs surgically implanted, read more...
Most Cockroaches Eaten
Ken Edwards from Derbyshire in the UK broke this record when he managed to consume 36 cockroaches in one minute. He achieved this on the set of the UK breakfast show The Big Breakfast in 2001. As well as cockroach eating, Ken also participates in a number of other unusual acts,including placing a large number of rats down his trousers.
Ken now eats cockroaches regularly, stating that they are an essential part of his diet due to him having a hernia. He states that the cockroaches, when cooked, “taste like bacon” and that their scent, which they use against predators, acts as an anaesthetic to his throat.
To add to his antics, Ken has even had fangs surgically implanted, read more...
answer by Louise_gorman 3 weeks ago
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