September 28, 2006
Fat man walks across United States of America to lose weight.
Steve Vaught, a formerly fit US soldier, got into depression when he got involved and started over-eating when he was involved in a car accident that killed two men, and he got fat. This got him so overweight that he could barely walk a few metres without getting breathless. So he decided to walk across the country from California to New York in an endeavour to lose weight. This 40-year-old man first weighted almost 30 stone (190 kg) when he left San Diego lost just over seven stone (45 kg) at the end of his 13-month journey. He got through 15 pairs of shoes, 45 pairs of socks and 6 rucksacks over the course of his journey. He said at the end of his journey he had found that being happier was the secret to being thinner. Mr Vaught now plans to publish a book about his story.
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The highest man-made temperature of 2 billion degree Centigrade was achieved at the Sandia National Laboratories at Albuquerque, New Mexico, using the Z-Machine. In comparison, the temperature of the surface of the sun is 6,000 degree Centigrade, while the temperature deep within the core of the sun is 15 million degree Centigrade.
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September 18, 2006
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (2)
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook (2)MrsPraline
8 min 44 sec - Sep 18, 2006
A clip from 'Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook'.
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A clip from 'Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook'.
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September 17, 2006
Reading Rainbow
47 sec - Sep 17, 2006
The show includes a number of segments in each episode. LeVar Burton introduces each segment where he relates interesting facts about turtles, or the Middle Ages, or some other item of interest, whatever the theme du jour may be. The series has kept itself current. In recent years it has tackled emotional issues that other children's programs have historically avoided. Topics like 9-11, childbirth and prison have been presented from the child's point of view. A regular segment has a children's book being read by a noted actor. Hundreds of actors have read on Reading Rainbow including Christopher Plummer, Patrick Stewart, and Donald Sutherland. The final segment of each show, called "You don't have to take my word for it" (from Levar Burton's introductory phrase), has children giving capsule reviews of books. Since the books have all been selected for quality, the reviews are always positive. Librarians, teachers and parents rely on the Reading Rainbow book list as the trusted source for great children's books. Each episode is introduced with an animation of children reading books to be instantly transformed into astronauts, knights and other people from across space and time as the theme song (originally recorded by R&B legend Chaka Khan) plays. Reading Rainbow is one of the most adult watched children's shows ever produced. It has won the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series 7 out of the last 10 years. The series was nominated for 6 more Daytime Emmy awards in 2005. In May of 2005 the series was honored with another Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series. It also won 3 more Emmys for Writing, Photography and Editing - for a total of four Emmys. It was the most honored children's series of 2005 and one of the most acclaimed shows in all of television.
September 16, 2006
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Some Interesting Facts About Peter CookMrsPraline
3 min 41 sec - Sep 16, 2006
A clip from 'Interesting Facts About Peter Cook'. The comedian's sister speaks about him.
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