Tuesday, February 3, 2009

AMAZING FACTS




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Meet Alfie Patten, a 13-year-old boy who now is the father of a healthy baby daughter, becoming the second youngest father after Sean Stewart who had a son at 12 years old in modern UK. Alfie Patten and girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, welcome daughter Maisie Roxanne who weighed 7lb 3oz four days ago, Dailymail cited The Sun as reporting









Bao Xishun - the world's tallest man - was taken to meet He Pingping - the world's shortest. Bao stands 7.9 feet tall while He stands only 2.4 feet tall. And me? I stand a whopping 20 feet. Around that is. I'm fat.









Church made of Human Bones ....

Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and how about 70 kilometers east the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, lies a small town called Sedlec. It might have been an ordinary enough town, if not for its extraordinary church.The inside of this church is decorated with artworks made of real human bones.The story begins in 1218, when a certain Abbot Henry made a pilgrimage to the holy land and brought back a jar full of soil from cemetery, which he spread over the Church.As a result the church came to be regarded as more sacred and turned into a popular burial spot .By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were buried there and by 1511, it had become necessary to remove the older bones to make place for the new ones.These later became the material for the macabre creations. In 1870 a local woodcarver was hired by the Duke of Shwartzenberg to decorate the inside of the church with the human remains (approximately 40,000 sets of human bones).Attached are some of the pictures of this Boney Church - its simply astonishing



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