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Het Arresthuis was previously one of Netherlands feared prisons for a period of almost 150 years. It was not a place anyone wanted to stay. Following its closure and a huge makeover, the hotel is now a hotspot and people are paying lots of money for a night in the cells. The former 105 prison quarters have been

An official study done in 2012 showed how Ebola could transfer between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages. They were never in direct contact. The experiment made a conclusion that Ebola could be spread through suspended droplets in the air. That Ebola could only be spread through exchange of bodily fluids has been a line we have heard countless times, ever since the virus was discovered, on mainstream news. But corporate media and public health officials have been keeping the truth from you. For some time now, it’s been suspected that CDC’s honesty on this matter is questionable. They have recently made changes concerning Ebola transmission; ease of transference and contamination is of great concern. According to their update: “A low risk exposure includes any of the following: ¤ Household member or other casual contact with an EVD patient. ¤ Providing patient care or casual contact without high-risk exposure with EVD patients in health care facilities in EVD outbreak affecte...

Since the 80’s, there has been an increase in the amount of plastics entering our oceans. However, when researchers tried to map out the ocean garbage, they found a smaller amount than they expected. On a study published on 30th June in the journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences, researchers said that" These studies suggest that surface waters are not the final destination for buoyant plastic debris in the ocean."

Graham Hughes from Liverpool is an adventurer who broke the record by visiting 201 countries around the world without the use of a plane. Dubbed the ‘ Odyssey Expedition’, he used buses, trains, taxis and his feet to travel a total of 16,000 miles. He began his expedition on 1st January 2009 and ended it on 26th November 2012. He did this in exactly 1426 days and spent just

Fix your eyes on the black dot in the middle of the infrared image until the animated gif switches to black and white. The castle will immediately show

Doctors believe that this woman has the “World’s biggest hands” since each of her arms weighs one and a half stone. Duangjay Samaksamamis a shop owner from Surin province in Thailand. For over 50 years, shehas suffered from a very painful and rare condition that has her limbs permanently swollen.

The animal kingdom has always surprised us with some pretty formidable creatures but these extinct animalsare something out of our worst nightmares. They were larger and more vicious than the scary animals we know today and it might be hard to believe that they actually existed. We might not have the chance to see them today but we should know them, just in case they ever return. 1. Carbonemys: The name Carbonemys means “carbon turtle”. It was a carnivorous the size of a Volkswagen. Its head was bigger than a football and its beak razor sharp which made it easy to slice through other animals with ease. 2. Arthropleura:

In the Year 1789, the timeline's starting point, homosexuality was illegal in 126 countries. View changing laws over time * with the exception of the Chechen Republic. Note: Where possible, former colonies have been referenced by their current name. Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rightsand the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association For more information on the data behind the map and timeline, see our full notes on the data. For more information on gay rights, visit the UN's Free and Equal campaign website. Share this story Follow @LaNUBlog & @Hon_KingSIMEO on Twitter for Updates

The tree is one of the oldest in Britain, according to experts. An ancient pear tree which could be felled under plans for a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham is to have its DNA collected. The tree, near the village of Cubbington, in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest in Britain, according to experts.

Cheryl Miller's driving licence was found in the sunken car and helped identify the victims The human remains found in an old car discovered in a drought-parched South Dakota creek last year were two girls who disappeared without a trace in 1971, officials have said. Police confirmed the bodies of Cheryl Miller and Pamela Jackson, both 17, were inside the 1960 Studebaker.

In 1970, There was Sinking of passenger vessel Namyoung leaves 323 dead, In 1993: Sinking of passenger vessel Seohae Ferry leaves 292 dead, In 2007:

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys (centre), with fan Roxanna Meta in character and a Lego Daenerys The third series of American TV show Game of Thrones is hotly anticipated. But the behaviour of fans is almost as intriguing as the action on screen. A lot of British people may still not have heard of it, but Game of Thrones has quite a cult following.

It's like history - but with the added suspense of not knowing who will win or lose. This element of Martin's work has gained him the admiration of some historians. "Different events - and different periods - elide to consistently potent and surprising effect. In Game of Thrones, episodes from the history of our own world lie in wait for the characters like booby traps," writes Tom Holland,

RPF leader and President, Paul Kagame,has been hailed for overseeing rapid economic growth in the tiny country. He has also tried to turn Rwanda into a technological hub and is very active on Twitter. But his critics say he does not tolerate dissent and several opponents have met unexplained deaths.

There are numerous memorials around Rwanda to those killed in the genocide In just 100 days in 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists. They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin. Why did the Hutu militias want to kill the Tutsis? About 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but the Tutsi minority has long dominated the country. In 1959,

DEFINITION OF CITIZENSHIP To define citizenship has become a very big problem to many scholars both present and past. We were meant to understand that there is no specific definition of citizenship, for it varies considerable from culture to culture, and even overtime. Some scholars believed that citizenship can be understood depending on the person making the determination, and it has never been fixed or static as it is constantly changing with different society. After so many research and studies, I have come to say that citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law of a state, which bestows such person the rights and privileges to participate in all that happens within the state at his / her wish. In other sense, citizenship can also be described as “a bundle of rights that gives a person such a freedom to participate in the political life of the community, also the right to vote, the right to receive certain protection from that same community, as ...

The Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, says an academic paper authored by a team from its institution has been adjudged the best presentation at the 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013 ) held in London, United Kingdom in December 2013. The Paper titled is “DGM Approach to Network Attacker and Defender Strategies” was presented at the conference by Dr Kayode Alese, but was co-authored by Iwasokun Gabriel Babatunde and Haruna Danjuma Israel (all from the Department of Computer Science, FUTA).

These questions are important as they would allow us to understand the thinking of the Lagosian in Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode (he did say he was half-Lagosian) and why it seems a lot of right-thinking people have kept quiet even in the face of those embarrassing articles by Mr. Fani-Kayode. Indeed, even in his ranting and ravings, Mr. Fani-Kayode ‘wobbled and fumbled’ over some salient issues: the issue of indegineship of a state or town. Who is a Lagosian? Only a mischievous person would say that Lagos was not originally a Yoruba town. True, it was ruled as part of the Benin Kingdom in pre-colonial time, but so was most of present day Ondo and Ogun States. Lagos is therefore not any less historically a Yoruba territory than these other Yoruba States. Let’s not forget too, that the Benin Kingdom is an integral part of the Oduduwa dynasty and that Yoruba was the language spoken in the court of the Oba of Benin right from the first Oba until quite recently. From the very first settlement up...

When a scene from Apocalypse Now was shot on an obscure beach in the Philippines in the late 70s, little did the film-makers know they were giving birth to the country's surfing culture. "Charlie don't surf," says the reckless and irrepressible Colonel Kilgore, in one of the most memorable lines of the Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now. Charlie is the American soldiers' derogatory nickname for their enemy, the Viet Cong, and the surf-mad colonel is trying to persuade his troops to ride the waves, despite the bombs falling all around them. Apocalypse Now, released in 1979, depicts the madness and mayhem of conflict, and is widely regarded as one of the most powerful war films ever made. But it also has another legacy - something that the director, Francis Ford Coppola, could not possibly have intended. Apocalypse Now was not actually filmed in Vietnam, but in the little fishing town of Baler in the northern Philippines. As the cameras rolled, local Filipinos li...

The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow. Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species. Writing in Science, the team says that Homo habilis,Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectusare all part of a single evolving lineage that led to modern humans. But others in the field reject this. A team looked at the most complete hominid skull ever found which was uncovered in Dmanisi, Georgia. It had a small braincase, large teeth and a long face, characteristics it shares with H.habilis. But many features from the braincase were also unique to H.erectus. The 1.8-million-year old skull comes from a site that has unveiled the biggest collections of well-preserved early human remains known anywhere in the world. The skull had a very small braincase They are also the earliest evidence of primitive humans outside Africa, a group which emerged soon after ea...