… not punny enough.
A man dressed as a cow stole a bunch of milk – Video
| May 2, 2011
Month: May 2011
The Queen Mother’s wedding, 1923 – Video
| May 2, 2011
Silent newsreel footage of the wedding day of The Duke of York (later King George VI) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother) as they travel to and from Westminster Abbey for the ceremony.
In the beginning…
| May 2, 2011
Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night
| May 2, 2011
For a cool $70,000 a night (for a minimum of two nights), you can hire the tiny country of Liechtenstein, which measures around 61.7 square miles and has just 35,000 inhabitants. According to the profile on Airbnb, Liechtenstein can accommodate between 450 and 900 people, has 500+ bedrooms and 500+ bathrooms. The cancellation policy is classified as “Super Strict”.
Last Typewriter Factory in the World Closes
| May 2, 2011
It was based in Mumbai, India, and in the 1990s “the company was selling 50,000 models each year,” reports this technology site, but “That had dropped to around 10,000 by the mid-2000s, and last year the company sold less than 1,000 typewriters. According to the company’s general manager Milind Dukle the only people now buying manual typewriters are ‘the defense agencies, courts and government offices.’”
“With manual typewriters no longer being produced, I think it’s fair to say we’re now a world where computers rule supreme.”
The true cost of the Royal Family – Video
| May 1, 2011
