If you thought the sexual preferences, and traditions, of some people in the western world seemed odd, then you need only look back in history, and at third world locatioins, to appreciate just how weird things can be.

The 10 most curious and strange coincidences.

10 things you did not know about language.

Be amazed by what you’ll be reading as I provide you with an insight into some of the world’s most bizarre festivals.

Could the ancient one-eyed monsters of Mediteranean be more than legend?

According to astrophysicist Dr. Christopher McKay and biologist Dr. Robert Wharton of the Ames Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, the Antarctic lakes resemble some that existed on Mars in the distant past. Life has been found in Antarctica; could there once have been life on Mars?

William I (c.1027 – 1087), the Conqueror, was the first Norman King of England and reigned from 1066 when he defeated the Saxons, under King Harold, at the Battle of Hastings. He completed the establishment of feudalism in England and ordered the survey of England which resulted in the Domesday Book, which still survives today.

This extraordinary story is from the files of Larry E. Arnold of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Arnold has devoted many years to investigating the bizarre and, so far, inexplicable phenomenon known as spontaneous human combustion (SHC).

The case of Sukla is one of hundreds in the files of Professor Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia. For than a quarter of the century Stevenson have the alleged former incarnation belonged, or was known to, family of the claimant, who may have simply remembered information stored subconsciously. been investigating cases in which children recall the homes, work, and families of individual unknown on to them in this life, and sometimes long dead. Stevenson suggests that these may be genuine instances of reincarnation.

As such, however, Ludwig appeared to enjoy none of the trapping of wealth. Wearing inexpensive, nondescript clothes, he was the despair of tailors. He clung to an anonymous lifestyle, refusing to grant interviews, avoiding photographers, traveling economy-class, and living in a modest house in Connecticut.