20 Amazing Pumpkin Carvings

Collection of unusual and creative pumpkin carvings just in time for Halloween.Homer Pumpkin3D Pumpkin Carvings by Scott CumminsSpace Invaders PumpkinIron Man PumpkinTerminator PumpkinTransformersRatatouille and Indiana JonesJoker PumpkinCannibal PumpkinNew Moon and YodaDwight PumpkinSuper Mario PumpkinDarth Vader PumpkinEve and Wal...

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Amazing and Strange giant rubber band ball record

Record breaker Joel Waul will find his driveway looks rather empty this morning.For the giant rubber band ball he spent six years creating is no longer there. The 28-year-old waved off his 6ft 7in masterpiece yesterday as a crane hauled its 9,032lb bulk from his home in Lauderhill, Florida, to a museum, having sold it for an undisclosed sum.Mr Waul's creation was declared the world's largest rubber band ball by the Guinness Book of World Records last year. He got the idea six years ago when he saw a television programme that showed the then-largest rubber band ball being dropped into the desert from an airplane.'I just thought it was the coolest...

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The world's smallest working train set... it's the size of a fingernail.

Measuring a tiny eighth of an inch by quarter of an inch, this carefully crafted piece of engineering is the world's smallest working train model.The five-carriage train, which is 35,200 times smaller than a real train, nips around an oval route even taking in a ride through a tunnel on its three-quarter inch track.Created by New Jersey train enthusiast David Smith, the miniscule model was built using nothing more fancy than a craft knife and a steady hand.Part of 55-year-old David's larger model train set at his home in Tom's River, the tiny locomotive was completed two months ago.'This model train set is going to be part of the larger train...

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Starfish with record eight legs is found off British coast.

A starfish thought to be the first in the world with eight legs has been found off the British coast, it emerged today.The bizarre creature, which has three more limbs than normal, was discovered inside a Cornish fisherman’s crab pot.Sea life experts at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay – where it is on display – believe it may be two spiny starfishes in the form of conjoined twins.Curator Matt Slater explained: ‘Starfish have the ability to re-grow lost limbs and the general consensus is that starfish with extra legs are caused by some kind of accidental genetic mutation.‘However with this particular starfish it has three extra legs and it also...

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Cool and Strange Chess for three players

Particular attention should also be applied to the center of the board, where knights tend to get tangled in a rather intricate web. The most difficult concept to get accustomed to, is the introduction of another player, thus, the ‘extra’ move by the third player.The moves in the center of the board may tend to be confusing also,so, we’ll discuss some of the possibilities of plays at the board’s center.Because the board for three players is made up of three halves,angled appropriately, the Queen and bishop have the ability totraverse the board across the center on the diagonal. The Queen may not,however, travel straight across from black to...

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Fisherman reels in monster 6ft perch... after battling with a CROCODILE

It's not often that you'd describe the angler, rather than the fish, as the one that got away.But that was certainly the case for Tim Smith, who lived to tell the tale after tussling with a crocodile over this monster 6ft Nile perch.The art teacher, 39, had already been engaged in a titanic battle to reel in the 249lb fish for 45 minutes in his tiny motor boat on the Victoria Nile in Uganda when he realised he had a fiercer rival.Fortunately, however, it was the 39-year-old art teacher who turned out to be the one that got away, managing to tether his catch to the boat before firing the motor into life, leaving his opponent empty-mouthed in his...

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Amazing Moment a baby fell in front of a train and lived

Passengers watched in horror as a pushchair carrying a baby rolled off the edge of a platform in front of a train.The pram and the six-month-old infant were dragged along under the engine as the driver desperately fought to slow his 250-ton train.No one on the platform believed the child could possibly have survived.But when ambulance officers arrived a few minutes later they were astounded to find that, not only had he escaped with just a minor bump on his head - but he was safely back in his mother's arms.Rescue workers found the child amid the wreckage of the smashed pushchair under one of the carriages. There was a gap between the bottom...

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The Independence Day-shaped cloud hovering in the skies over Moscow

In what could have been a scene from the film Independence Day, a luminous ring-shaped cloud could be seen hovering over the city of Moscow last week.The pale gold 'halo' could be seen above the Russian capital city's Western District on Wednesday, and was captured on film by stunned Muscovites.Meteorologists rejected any theories of the supernatural however, calling it an optical effect.A spokesman from the city's weather forecast said: 'Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west – this is how the effect was produced.'He added: 'This is purely an optical...

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World's Bizarre and Hairiest Man in China

Yu Zhenhuan from China is the world's hairiest man with hair covering 96 percent of his body. Yu was diagnosed with a rare condition that causes hair to grow in places it normally shouldn't. He was born in a farmer family and when he was only 2 years old his parents noticed he had hair coming out of his auditory canals. His situation worsened as he grew up and now almost his entire body is covered with long thick hair.But Yu might have the chance of living a normal life, he is now undertaking a laser treatment to have his hair removed. Basically, every hair on his body will have to be zapped with laser. That can’t be pleasant, but for Yu Zenhuan...

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