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After a year’s break, we went to see the annual Salim Restaurant 1-hour lion, unicorn and dragon dance show. It’s usually held on the evening of the second day of CNY, which this year fell on the 24th of January. The announced time was 9.45pm, the actual show started 10 minutes later. We were very ... 
While performing at a Jewish orthodox synagogue in Slovakia, violinist Lukas Kmit was interrupted by a mobile phone ringing, that very familiar Nokia jingle. After pausing and giving the guilty party an annoyed glare, Kmit did the unexpected: continuing his performance with an on-the-spot improvisation of that ringtone, earning him applause from the appreciative crowd. ...
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope took an image of the “Pillars of Creation” of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. It contains NGC6611, a young hot star cluster that sculpts and illuminates the surrounding gas and dust, consequently causing a large hollowed-out hole and pillars. The tallest pillar is ...
Updated 20 Jan 2012, based on The Star Online posted 5.38pm The Star revealed that the winner is a retiree in his 70s, who worked out the winning combination by “diligently studying all the numbers that had been drawn before to find out the trend, then creating number combinations to bet on.” So there’s a ...
In the third set of a men’s singles second round match in the 2012 Australian Open on 18th January 2012 between unseeded Marcos Baghdatis (world no.43) and 21st seed Stanislas Wawrinka, Baghdatis was 2 sets down (6-7, 4-6), and during a changeover, he snapped: That’s 4 rackets destroyed in less than a minute: possibly a ...
On 16th January 2012, Ngidi Msungubana, 25 was bitten to death by a shark while surfing at Second Beach in Port St Johns, Eastern Cape province, South Africa (Eastern Cape). The beach faces the Indian Ocean. It has been called “the world’s deadliest” due to this being the sixth death since 2007 due to sharks ... 
Apparently owned by a Chinese couple trader in Donggongon, Penampang, who are so poor that they can’t afford to repair the car, let alone buy a new one. [Photo credit: WikiSabah] [Photo credit: Rooney Biusing] 
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922), who has been described as one of the most influential people in history. He was awarded the first US patent for the telephone on 7th March 1876. 3 days later came the famous first phone call, when, from his Boston lab, he uttered “Mr. ... 
A few months ago, I mentioned a problem I’m having with birds pooping all over some of my window frames and windowsills. In looking for a solution, for a while I seriously considered going for those expensive anti bird spikes. But later on I stumbled upon a very cheap and very effective solution. The Vinyl ... 
Silke Schoenfleisch-Backof en, 39, of Frankfurt, Germany is only 3′ 8″ tall but she’s been nicknamed “Power Frau” (mighty woman). She’s been working as a prosecutor at the Frankfurt State Court for 8 years, most of the time handling business law. She reportedly decided to be a lawyer after being refused entry by a medical school ... 
Spotted 14th December 2011 in Keningau. I call the following letter the 3-in-1 letter because the person to whom it’s addressed resides in Kota Kinabalu, the address mentions “Bangunan MPT” which I think refers to the Town Council Building in Tawau, while the letter itself arrived in Keningau.
Back in 1990, Barack Obama, then 28, was elected the first black president of Harvard Law Review. In an interview with the New York Times that year, he said he planned to spend up to 3 years working in law and then go into politics or community work. In 1991, he presented a Black History ...
The following can be found on the back page of Daily Express (Sabah’s most popular daily) on 8th December 2011. At first glance it could be misinterpreted as either Sabah not open to any visitors on that day, or everything’s closed on that day. 
The Toyota Land Cruiser 80 series was introduced in late 1989, replacing the 70 Series (Land Cruiser II). I first saw it when I came back home for the summer holidays in mid 1990. Everybody I knew in Sabah called it Ninja Turtle, reportedly due to: (i) the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ... 
The Toyota Land Cruiser 80 series was introduced in late 1989, replacing the 70 Series (Land Cruiser II). I first saw it when I came back home for the summer holidays in mid 1990. Everybody I knew in Sabah called it Ninja Turtle, reportedly due to: (i) the popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ... 
Photographer: Sebastian Voltmer (Germany) Date taken: December 2011 Place: eastern Norway Description: wide angle & horizontally compressed Auroras happen due to ionised solar particl … 
…or scariest runway. Paro Airport is the only international airport in Bhutan, located 6 km away from Paro town, in a deep valley on the bank of the Paro river at an elevation of 2,200 m. It is surrounded by Himalayan peaks as high as 5,500m. It is probably the world’s most difficult airport to ... 
Some banknotes in my collection – I believe all of these are still available for purchase online at very reasonable prices. Libya’s 1 dinar banknote, issued in the 1980s, with Muammar Gaddafi on the obverse. Apart from this, the other banknote featuring Gaddafi is the 50 dinar bill. After the 2011 revolution with overthrew him, ... 
Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 – 1994) was the 37th President of the United States (1969 – 1974). He was previously the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953 – 1961). The … 
The following all happened on Christmas Day 2011 Grapevine, Texas: on a quiet Christmas morning, 6 close relatives, 4 females and 2 males, had gathered in an apartment, and had just finished unwrapping their Christmas presents, when Iranian-American real estate agent Aziz “Bob” Yazdanpanah, 56, dressed as Santa Claus, unexpectedly arrived, took out his gun, ... 
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