Last year, the court temporarily placed Laura Dekker custody of state social services. Decker was planning to go to circumnavigate the globe in its eight-meter yacht "guppy" to become the youngest sailor, alone bypassed the globe. Currently, the record belongs to 16-year old Australian Jessica Watson, set it in May 2010. In December 2009, Decker had violated the court order and hid in the Dutch Antilles, from which she returned home. Currently, the city of Middelburg court limits with a 14-year-old girl shot. Laura Decker was born on a yacht off the coast of New Zealand at a time when her parents made a seven-year journey around the world. She got her own boat when she was 6 years old and started to swim alone in ten years. Her mother is no longer opposed her world tour, his father supported the idea of ??his daughter from the beginning. [Source]
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Chinese Chicken ... celebrated 400 years!
This amazing bird - 22 years that the human equivalent of 400 years. 77-year-old boss hen told reporters that her sister bought it in 1988. According to farmers, chicken record holder was a child. Their first egg is laid at the age of two months, which is absolutely unusual for chickens - the first clutch, they usually do in six-months of age. Despite his age, the chicken is completely healthy, said "Gazeta.ru. Until now it was assumed that the average life expectancy of a chicken is seven or eight years. Boss long-liver maintains that no secrets for the care of the birds he has not. "Many neighbors are waiting for when I welded from this chicken soup, but for more than twenty years, I had attached to her and not going to do" - says the Chinese farmer. [Source]
In the German forest, the lion roared into life
Power District Uecker-Randow (Uecker-Randow), Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania, had warned local residents and hunters about the appearance of the surrounding forests, a large wild cat, supposedly a puma or a young lion, according to Welt. Animal yellowish color tall at the shoulder with about half a meter long tail observed two fishermen, who were traveling late at night by car along the beach located in a conservation area of ??the lake Darshkovzee (Darschkowsee). Predator deserted road 30 meters before the car and dived into the reeds. The fishermen immediately notified the surrounding vlasti.Te react to what has happened is very serious. States that met the animal can not be trotted because lynx's tail is much shorter. Presumably, we are talking about exotic animals illegally imported into Germany. In general, as noted by Welt, Forest neighborhood district Uecker-Randow, located on the border with Poland, is considered one of the wildest. In particular, they regularly meet the wolves. However, lions, until recently, no one saw. [Source]