Bangladesh secured their first-ever ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup win as Fargana Hoque’s patient 71 steered them to a historic nine-run victory over Pakistan. Bangladesh’s national team debuted in 1973 and has never qualified for the World Cup final rounds yet. They were dismissed in the first round of their…
Ötzi. Ötzi, the iceman from the Tyrolean Alps, is the holy grail of glacial archaeology. He became a world-wide sensation when his mummified body was found in 1991. Each year, 250000 people visit the museum in Bolzano where he is exhibited. 15 Strange Things Mysteriously Found Frozen In Ice. 1…
+ The fact that Older Adultss are more influenced by negative information than positive information is referred to as the negativity bias in impression formation. Correspondence Bias Examples. Example One: Imagine that you are in your favorite cafe having some coffee. All of a sudden you hear someone enter who…
It is often said that it is very difficult for an NFL team to beat another team 3 times in one season, but it turns out that is not true. According to an ESPN article, from 1970 through 2019, teams that swept an opponent during the regular season and then…
On June 6, 2006, two of the four soldiers in an Abrams crew were killed during combat operations in Baghdad, when an IED detonated near their M1A2. On August 2, 2006, an M1A1 commanded by US Marine Sgt. George M. Ulloa was hit by two IED’s in Al Anbar Province,…
1. Venice. World-famous for its picturesque dense canals, thousands of holidaymakers fly to Venice each year to experience the romantic ’city of canals’. Birmingham doesn’t have more canals than the Italian water-based city Venice, but it does have more miles of canals. Birmingham is the epicentre of the country’s bustling…
Completely unofficial and no record books have ever been kept. The following pitchers had no problem with their pitch count, at least for one inning, as they started the inning, threw exactly three pitches and recorded three outs. The other pitchers with a three-pitch, three-out inning this year were Adrian…
In 2001, a 28-year-old woman passed away from a brain aneurysm while riding the Goliath roller coaster in Six Flags Magic Mountain in California. In 2004, a 21-year-old park employee died after being struck by the Scream roller coaster in Six Flags Magic Mountain. How many people have died at…
In 2005, Evans married Chiara Passerini, an Italian pianist and music teacher he met at the end of 2002. Evans proposed to her after his first Tour de France. In January 2012, the couple adopted their son Robel, from Ethiopia, at the age of six months. Did Cadel Evans win…
Richard Nixon – granted a full and unconditional pardon in 1974 just before he could be indicted in the Watergate scandal. This was the only time that a U.S. president received a pardon. Presidential Pardons Through the Years President Years in Office Pardons Barack Obama 2009-2017 212 George W. Bush…