Sunday 14 May 2017

A lost love letter finds its recipient after 72 years

Allen Cook and his daughter Melissa were renovating her house in Westfield, New Jersey, this week when they found a crack in one of the ceilings. What they discovered within turned out to be part of a beautiful, heartwarming love story.
"The envelope was old and yellow. It has never been opened. It was unbelievable when my son-in-law started reading it. In the letter she was talking about the baby she was going to have," Allen Cook told CNN.
    The story -- which could be straight out of a great movie plot about love and its mysterious ways -- begins in 1945.

    Train derailment in northern Greece leaves 4 dead, 5 injured

    Rescuers search the site of a fatal train derailment close to the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece on Sunday, May 14, 2017. The train was traveling on the Athens-Thessaloniki route when it went off the rails near the station at the village of Adendro, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Thessaloniki Saturday night. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)
    An intercity train derailed in northern Greece, leaving four passengers dead and five seriously injured, including the driver, the state railway said in a statement early Sunday.
    The train, with 70 passengers, was traveling on the Athens-Thessaloniki route when it went off the rails and crashed through a house by the village of Adendro, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Thessaloniki, on Saturday night.
    "I was sitting on my porch. I saw a flash and immediately heard a terrible explosion," Giorgos Mylonas, 78, told The Associated Press. "Then I saw the train enter (a nearby) house and heard the two Albanians who live there scream for help."

    Saturday 13 May 2017

    Can the righteous get depressed?

    Nobody is immune to depression. In sickness, the poor and the rich become equals. The way and manner in which the pauper gets depressed, the bourgeoise also falls in the same line. Depression is defined by bing.com as ‘feelings of severe despondency and dejection’’. It can strike anyone, unfortunately, so many people live in denial and would hardly accept that they are in a situation where they would need medical help.

    The material position of an individual does not exempt him from the misfortunes of life. Infact, in some instances, it is believed that the better one is financially, the more worries he would have (it is not proven yet). Another thing is one’s righteousness or goodness does not guarantee that depression would not visit him and people who do not understand you may think you have offended God for trouble to come upon you.

    All you need to know about Japan’s annual penis festival

    The Kanamara Matsuri, or ‘Festival of the Steel Phallus,’ has come and gone, but the world needs to know about a celebration that sheds light on that part of Japanese that the world may be unaware of.
    • Held annually in Kawasaki, just south of Tokyo, visitors are awed by the sight of massive penis mikoshi, or portable shrines, usually paraded through the town while the festival lasts.Each mikoshi is carried by dozens of locals outfitted in happi coats and sweatbands, while some of the men are in fundoshi, loin cloth-style underwear.