The entire journey covered 4,451 miles, mostly on foot. Yassan also occasionally used cars, bicycles, and ferries. He wrote "Marry Me" and a drew a heart with an arrow through it.
The project ended successfully: when he showed it to his girlfriend, she said yes!
This looks like fun! To make your own electric train, you'll need coiled copper wire, a battery, and 4 strong magnets. Attach the magnets to the end of the battery and place the "train" inside the coiled wire.
The toy train zips along the copper track, which you can arrange in a circle to keep the movement going.
I'm going to admit my ignorance: I'm not really sure why this works. Some YouTube commenters say that this toy is a homopolar motor, which is a type of electric motor in which the surrounding copper wire completes a circuit.
See that big gift-wrapped package? Open it! Comedian Nathan Barnatt will pop out and dance. With a sleek outfit, music playing, and a mirror ball helmet, he's a party in a box.
You don't even have to open the box to get the party started. As this man using a urinal in a restroom learned, it's enough to simply be in Barnatt's general vicinity.
You can rely upon the Doma Collective, an Argentinian art group consisting of Mariano Barbieri, Julián Pablo Manzelli, Matías Vigliano and Orilo Blandini, for a constant stream of unique works of art combining images and media that you'd never thought of before. For example, in the past, we've seen their conveyor belt of human evolution and a giant plush walking around urban streets.
This plastic sculpture is called Fantasy Island. What is real and what is the product of pharmaceutical-driven delusions?
Róbert Berény (1887-1953) was an accomplished Hungarian painter famous in his homeland for his avant-garde innovations. One of his more important works, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, disappeared in Hungary in the 1920s. More than 80 years later, an art historian rediscovered it in the background of the 1999 American children's movie Stuart Little.
In 2009, Gergely Barki of the Hungarian National Gallery sat down to watch a movie with his daughter Lola. They saw a television presentation of Stuart Little. The Guardian describes Barki's experience:
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Bereny’s long-lost masterpiece on the wall behind Hugh Laurie. I nearly dropped Lola from my lap,” said Barki. “A researcher can never take his eyes off the job, even when watching Christmas movies at home.”
Barki wrote many emails to people who worked on the film. 2 years later, he got a response from a set designer:
“She said the picture had been hanging on her wall,” Barki said.
“She had snapped it up for next to nothing in an antiques shop in Pasadena, California, thinking its avant garde elegance was perfect for Stuart Little’s living room.”
After leaving Sony, she sold the painting to a private collector who has now brought the picture to Budapest for sale by auction.
Berény's Sleeping Lady with Black Vase will be auctioned on December 13. The starting price is €110,000 ($136,930 USD).
I am a 28 year old felon with no high school degree, and a dirty old van one year younger than me painted like Eddie Van Halen's guitar. I can play anywhere between the ages of 20 and 29 depending on if i shave. I'm a line cook and work late nights at a bar. If you'd like to have me as your stictly platonic date for Thanksgiving, but have me pretend to be in a very long or serious relationship with you, to torment your family, I'm game.
In exchange for a free dinner, he would also:
talk about politics and religion
openly hit on other female guests
pretend to get really drunk
start a fistfight with a member of your family on the front lawn in full view of the neighbors
Prior to Thanksgiving, he told a reporter that he had secured a date. Schmidt promised to live-tweet the date, but the results of that date are unclear in his Twitter timeline.
How would a soldier know if his tank was male or female? It would be necessary to make an anatomical inspection. Heavy tanks with cannons were male. Lighter tanks with multiple machine guns were female. Bryn Hammond writes in Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle:
The Mark IV tank came in two varieties: the ‘male’ was armed with two 6-pdr. Hotchkiss QF 57 mm naval guns and four Lewis guns, its ‘female’ consort had six Lewis guns . . . The ‘male’ version weighed 32 tons, whilst the ‘female’ weighed 28 tons.
Lieutenant Horace Birks of the British Army preferred to go into battle with a male tank. Hammond quotes Birks:
Everybody wanted a male tank. I was a junior officer. I got a female. The male tank was a thing because it had a gun and it was a more formidable weapon altogether. You could get out of it easier because it had quite a biggish door on the back of the sponson. But the female tank had doors [close to] the ground. And it was very difficult to get out of. If there was a fire or anything like that it was odds on that some of you would get hurt.
Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Swinton, though, thought that the female tank could be ideal under the right circumstances. Paul Kendall quotes him in Bullecourt 1917: Breaching the Hindenburg Line:
The female, which, in accordance with the laws of Nature, is the man-killer, carries nothing but machine-guns for employment against enemy personnel. Her special role is to keep down hostile rifle fire, to beat back counter-attacks and rushes of infantry.
Assassin's Creed Unity, the newest game in the Assassin's Creed video game franchise, takes place in Paris during the French Revolution. It's 1789 and, thanks to the photogaphy of Damien Hypolite, also 2014. Hypolite spent 2 days traveling through Paris, photographing settings from that game over their real-life locations. You can view more of Hypolite's pictures here.
Internet cat celebrity Kodi has a busy life, but he always puts his pet care responsibilities first. Here he is taking care of his pet, a toy kitten. Having leashed the kitten (not shown), Kodi leads his little companion on a walk.
Tumblr user Charmelon writes, "I made him a little kitty snow fort and I think he likes it as much as I do." He looks like a lucky kitty, but he's about to get eaten by the Abominable Snow Cat! Run, kitty!
Comedian and singer Remy Munasifi is all about that paste--the sweet and delicious paste known as hummus. You can eat it by itself or on anything, from pumpkin pie to Fruit Loops. But it must have tahini or it's not real hummus.
Eat it all! And don't worry about what girls will think when that rich hummus makes you fat:
My mama she told me don't worry about your thighs She said that girls will not like you--does not matter what your size
Munasafi's song is a parody of Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass." That song, which is embedded below, is an affirmation of a Rubenesque figure (content warning: foul language).
You're not a sloppy eater, but a fashion icon. You'll turn heads if you go out in public wearing accessories made by the Japanese company Fake Food Hatakana. You've got a wide array of gourmet choices from nations around the world. View more selections at Rocket News 24.
At the end of the Monty Python film The Life of Brian, the protagonist stands crucified by the Roman occupiers of Judea, falsely accused of insurrection.
Nothing in his life has gone according to plan. Now Brian's efforts will end in a slow, painful death. So he's feeling a bit depressed. But another crucifixion victim played by Eric Idle encourages him to look on the bright side of life. He sings a song along that theme, which is among the most famous in the Monty Python repertoire.
According to a study conducted by The Co-Operative Funeralcare, a British funeral company, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is the most popular song played at funerals in the UK. You can watch that scene in the video embedded below.
Henry Brown is a sheep farmer in Willingdon, East Sussex, UK. He wanted to propose marriage to his girlfriend, Emily Walker, in a creative way. Since he's an expert on sheep, he put his flock to work on that project. Brown painted five sheep with the phrase "Emily, will ewe marry me?," then put them on a separate field on his farm.
When Walker visited him, they took a ride around the farm. They saw the sheep out of place and went for a closer look. It was then that Walker saw the words and pieced them together. Brown dropped to one knee for a formal proposal. And she said yes!
