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RomanceRe: I Want My Girl To Get A Nose Piercing Because by RoyalBlak007: 11:08pm On Feb 22, 2018
Charijee grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Arsenal Vs Oestersunds FK: Europa League (1 - 2) On 22nd February 2018 by RoyalBlak007: 9:54pm On Feb 22, 2018
Neimar:
man u and arsenal two useless teams in england
You're right bud!

[color=#F5A215] But I think ManUtd is more uselesser grin[/color]
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga)Re: Fc Barcelona Fan Thread: "més Que Un Club" by RoyalBlak007: 9:47pm On Feb 22, 2018
Guys!?

[color=#F5A215]Dis Napoli qualify... with the 2-nil win? [/color]
FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 9:04pm On Feb 22, 2018
JamaicanLove:
Hi, check you MALE sir.. lol cheesy
gringringrin

Nice
[color=#F5A215] one grin[/color]
FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 8:33pm On Feb 22, 2018
mustafa006:
wara baut the pucee part
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FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 8:30pm On Feb 22, 2018
Greatzeus:
Creative,but highly overpriced. N370m plus,did they bring the flour from Valhalla? grin
It's just flour,egg, margarine,sugar,etc in large quantity,I think it was overpriced so that it could trend
Of

[color=#F5A215] course[/color]
FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 8:26pm On Feb 22, 2018
muhammed50:
What's happening?? I don't seem to understand... Should I check my mail too??
Yes

[color=#F5A215]Sir cheesy [/color]
FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:55pm On Feb 22, 2018
Safiaaa:
Hi check your mail sir
Done swiftly Miss
FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:15pm On Feb 22, 2018
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FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:08pm On Feb 22, 2018
They were used to decorate the bride’s head.

FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:07pm On Feb 22, 2018
There are also real decorations among the edible ones — pearls and three-carat diamonds that cost $200 million each.

FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:05pm On Feb 22, 2018
5,000 flowers were used in total, and it took 10 days to decorate.

FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:04pm On Feb 22, 2018
Each feature includes tiny flowers and pearls, which are all handmade.

FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:02pm On Feb 22, 2018
The whole thing is edible, and its covered with 50 kg (110 lbs) of lacy confectionery.

FoodRe: The World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:00pm On Feb 22, 2018
1,000 eggs and 20 kg (44 lbs) of chocolate were used for this cake.

FoodThe World’s Most Expensive Wedding Cake Was Made In Dubai(photos) by RoyalBlak007(op): 7:00pm On Feb 22, 2018
People who were lucky enough to visit a wedding exhibition in Dubai had a chance to taste a “bride” that costs $1 million. Debbie Wingham , the creator of this cake, is known as the world’s most expensive designer, because she creates $50 million masterpieces.


https://brightside.me/creativity-design/the-worlds-most-expensive-wedding-cake-was-made-in-dubai-and-its-probably-worth-its-price-454510/
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This what the $1 million “bride” looks like. Her height is 182 cm (72 in) and she weighs 120 kg (164 lbs). She’s heavier than the prototype, but everyone will have a chance to try it.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:46pm On Feb 22, 2018
Mata Hari’s Skull
Mata Hari was one of the top spies of the 20th century, even though whom she spied for remains a hotly debated topic. Possible candidates include France, Germany, or both. Nevertheless, she was executed by France on October 15, 1917, for spying for Germany during World War I.

Some believe that France only used Mata Hari as the proverbial scapegoat to explain their losses during the war. She was a professional prostitute with connections to top German officials, which made her the perfect scapegoat.

Mata Hari’s remains went unclaimed after her execution and were sent to the school of medicine in Paris to be used for anatomy studies. Her head was removed at the school and was kept at the Museum of Anatomy where it mysteriously went missing.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:45pm On Feb 22, 2018
Sarah Baartman’s Brain And Genitals
Sarah Baartman was born in Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1789. She had a
medical condition called steatopygia, which caused an abundance of fat in her buttocks. This caused her buttocks to be bigger than normal, and it often generated curiosity.
In October 1810, she signed some paperwork—despite being illiterate—that permitted surgeon William Dunlop and her boss, Hendrik Cesars (in whose house she worked as a maid), to ship her off to be exhibited in England.

There, Baartman was exhibited under the stage name “Hottentot Venus.” During her performances, she often wore beads, feathers, and tight clothing in the same color as her skin and smoked a pipe. She traveled to Paris in 1814 and died there a year later.

After her death, naturalist Georges Cuvier dissected her. Baartman’s brain, skeleton, and genitals were exhibited at the Paris Museum of Man until 1974. After the request of President Nelson Mandela in the mid-1990s, Baartman’s remains were finally returned to South Africa in March 2002. She was reburied in Hankey.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:43pm On Feb 22, 2018
Chief Mkwawa’s Skull
Chief Mkwavinyika Munyigumba Mwamuyinga (aka Chief Mkwawa) is remembered for fiercely resisting the
German invasion and colonization of Hehe tribal lands in today’s Tanzania. In 1891, he rebelled against the German colonists and even killed a top German official in battle. Germany finally captured the Hehe villages and forts. But they still couldn’t capture Chief Mkwawa, who fought back using hit-and-run tactics.

In 1898, Chief Mkwawa shot himself in the head after he was surrounded by Germans troops. But the Germans weren’t letting him off that easily. They removed his skull and sent it to Berlin.

During World War I, the Hehe fought on the side of Britain against Germany. As we all know, Britain won the war. To show their appreciation for the Hehe’s efforts, the British included a clause in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that ordered Germany to return Chief Mkwawa’s skull to the Hehe.

However, Germany could not account for the skull so the Hehe got nothing. After
World War II, Sir Edward Twining, the governor of Tanganyika, revived attempts to retrieve the skull. He traced it to Bremen Museum in Germany. There, he found 2,000 skulls, 84 of which were from Tanzania.
Only one had a bullet hole in the head, so Twining assumed that it belonged to Chief Mkwawa. The skull is presently displayed at the Mkwawa Memo

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:32pm On Feb 22, 2018
Napoleon Bonaparte’s Penis
Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at the
Battle of Waterloo was the beginning of his end. First, he lost the French throne. Second, he was captured by the British and exiled to the island of St. Helena where he died under mysterious circumstances in 1821. Third, he lost his penis during an autopsy to determine what killed him.

Dr. Francesco Autommarchi, who performed the autopsy, removed Napoleon’s penis—which is said to be just 3.8 centimeters (1.5 in) long—in the presence of 17 people. Autommarchi gave the little member to Abbe Anges Paul Vignali, the priest who gave Napoleon his last rites.

A book collector purchased the penis in 1924 before it was sold to someone in Philadelphia. In 1927, the penis was displayed at the Museum of French Art in New York.

A Time magazine journalist who saw the penis at the museum referred to it as “a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace.” The penis was later sold at auction to John J. Lattimer in 1977 and has remained with the Lattimer family ever since.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:30pm On Feb 22, 2018
Charles Babbage’s Brain
Charles Babbage invented the modern
computer and is regarded as the “father of the computer.” Today, one-half of his brain lies at the Science Museum in London while the other half lies at the Hunterian Museum inside the Royal College of Surgeons in London. Unlike Einstein, Babbage actually wanted his brain to end up somewhere other than inside his skull.

Before he died in 1871, Charles wrote a
letter to his son Henry in which Charles detailed his wishes about his brain. Charles clarified that he had no qualms about his brain being removed and preserved after his death provided that it was used to promote the cause of science.

In the letter, Charles told Henry that he wanted his brain “disposed of in any manner which [Henry considered] most conducive to the advancement of human knowledge and the good of the human race

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:29pm On Feb 22, 2018
Antonio Scarpa’s Head
Antonio Scarpa was an Italian anatomist and neurologist who died on October 31, 1832. Before his death, he worked at the University of Pavia where he made more
enemies than friends. He was an arrogant fellow who was famous for spreading rumors about others. He was also a nepotist who only offered jobs openings at the university to his friends and illegitimate children.

Scarpa’s autopsy was conducted by Carlo Beolchin, a former assistant who removed Scarpa’s head, thumb, index finger, and urinary tract. No one knows the exact reason why Beolchin removed Scarpa’s parts.

Some say that Beolchin saved these body parts for future generations. But considering Scarpa’s ruthlessness, Beolchin could just as well have removed them to get back at his former boss. Rivals who could not get their hands on Scarpa’s parts defaced a marble statue erected in his honor.

Except for the head, Scarpa’s parts were kept at an Italian museum. The anatomist’s head was initially hidden but eventually reappeared years later when it was displayed at the Museo per la storia dell’Universita di Pavia (Museum of the Story of the University of Pavia). The museum is now in possession of Scarpa’s other parts but has decided to keep them in storage.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:27pm On Feb 22, 2018
Galileo Galilei’s Tooth And Fingers
Famous astronomer Galileo Galilei died in 1642. In 1737, his body was being relocated to a new tomb opposite that of Michelangelo in Florence, Italy, when some of Galileo’s fans seized the opportunity to steal three of his fingers, a tooth, and a vertebra.
One of the fingers ended up at the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. The remaining fingers (a thumb and middle finger) and a tooth were privately held by a family.

The parts held by the family went missing in the 20th century but somehow showed up again in 2009. Not wanting to lose track of Galileo’s parts again, the Museum of the History of Science acquired the fingers and tooth and now exhibit them alongside the third finger.
The museum was also renamed the Galileo Museum. They have more body parts of Galileo than anyone else. Meanwhile, Galileo’s vertebra remains at the University of Padua.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:24pm On Feb 22, 2018
Jeremy Bentham’s Head
Jeremy Bentham was an eccentric philosopher who lived from 1748 to 1832. When we say eccentric, we mean that he was the kind of man who called his cat The Reverend Sir John Langbourne. Bentham also asked that his body be preserved after his death so that he could attend his friends’ parties.
True to Bentham’s wishes, his body was preserved after his death and remains on exhibit at a museum at University College London. However, his real head has been separated from his body and replaced by a wax model. Bentham might be eccentric but not to the extent of requesting that his head be separated from his body.


His real head was removed after the embalming went wrong.
Bentham requested that his head be embalmed with the same method used by the Maori people of New Zealand. However, his friend Dr. Southwood Smith—who did the embalming—was not familiar with the process and the head ended up in a terrible state. So, it had to be removed.


The head used to be displayed in the museum, but it was placed in storage in the 1990s after being stolen by students from a rival university.

EducationRe: Top 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:23pm On Feb 22, 2018
Albert Einstein’s Brain
Part of Albert Einstein’s brain presently lies in the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. Einstein never wanted his brain to be kept in a museum. He actually requested to be cremated after his death to prevent anyone from creating a cult around him.
However, after Einstein’s death on April 18, 1955, pathologist Thomas Harvey removed—or rather, stole—the physicist’s brain and eyeballs. Later, Einstein’s family allowed Harvey to keep the brain on the condition that it would only be used for scientific purposes.


With the aid of lab physician Marta Keller, Harvey cut Einstein’s brain into 1,000 slices, put them on glass slides, and sent them to several pathologists. Dr. William Ehrich of the Philadelphia General Hospital got 46 of these slides.
After Ehrich’s death, his wife passed them to Dr. Allen Steinberg, who gave them to Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams. It was Rorke-Adams who donated these slides to the museum. Close to 350 of the slides also lie at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Maryland.


Einstein’s brain is just one of the many body parts kept at the Mutter Museum. They also have the fused livers of Chang and Eng Bunker (the first conjoined twins), the corpse of a Philadelphia woman called the Soap Lady (due to the waxlike consistency of her remains), and a diseased 2.7-meter-long (9 ft) colon with 18 kilograms (40 lb) of feces.


Little wonder that visitors are usually advised not to eat before visiting.

EducationTop 10 Human Body Parts Displayed In Museums by RoyalBlak007(op):
Grigori Rasputin’s Penis
Grigori Rasputin was a faith healer and adviser to the ruling Romanov family of Russia before he was assassinated in 1916. He was a very curious character, and the only thing more peculiar than his personality was his 33-centimeter-long (13 in) penis that presently lies in the Museum of Erotica in St. Petersburg, Russia.

According to his daughter, Marie, 33 centimeters (13 in) was the length of her father’s penis when it was flaccid and it was much longer when at attention. For comparison, the average penis length is 9.2 centimeters (3.6 in) when flaccid and 13.1 centimeters (5.2 in) when erect.

How the penis went missing remains a
mystery . One account says that Grigori’s assassins cut it off and a maid who came to clean his room the next day was so impressed with what she saw that she took the penis away. Another account states that one of Grigori’s former mistresses took his penis as a souvenir during his autopsy.
Later, Marie got her hands on her father’s penis, but it went missing after her death in 1977. It reappeared again when one Michael Augustine tried selling it to an auction house. However, that penis was found to be a dried sea cucumber.
The real thing eventually appeared in the hands of a French collector who sold it to a Russian doctor in 2004. It was the doctor who took it to the museum where it is displayed among other sex items.


To be clear, though, there are claims that the penis at the museum does not belong to Rasputin or even a human for that matter. Nevertheless, that does not change the fact that there is a 33-centimeter-long (13 in) penis in a Russian museum.


http://listverse.com/2018/02/22/top-10-human-body-parts-displayed-in-museums/
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Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:07pm On Feb 22, 2018
George Yancy
No one wants to use the disgustingly dirty
gas station bathrooms, but one can’t exactly be picky when nature calls. This is what happened to 35-year-old George Yancy while he was traveling through Smithville, Texas, on his way home from work.
Yancy used the bathroom key, dropped his pants, and sat down to do his business. In this vulnerable moment, he had no idea that a deadly rattlesnake was curled up underneath his feet.


When Yancy reached down to pull up his pants, the snake bit him in the hand. Rattlesnake venom begins to spread excruciating pain throughout the body within mere seconds. It causes swelling, makes breathing difficult, blurs vision, and causes overwhelming nausea. Without medical treatment, it only takes 30 minutes before the venom causes permanent damage.
Unfortunately for George Yancy, help did not arrive fast enough and he died. The only lesson anyone can learn from Mr. Yancy’s death is to look before you sit.

Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:05pm On Feb 22, 2018
Norman Murburg
Any soldier who joins the US Army knows that he is signing up for the possibility of death. Most soldiers imagine a heroic death protecting their country and would never think of being taken down by a snake.
Twenty-year-old Norman Murburg was training to join the Special Forces at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Recruits are put through various tests, including wilderness survival.

Norman completed his first phase of training, but he never showed up at the second check-in point. Army officials didn’t find his body until the next day. They claim that he was bitten by a water moccasin or “cottonmouth” snake multiple times.

After examining the photos of his son’s body, Norman’s father, Mike, didn’t believe the army’s story about the snake bite. He thinks that it’s a cover-up for the fact that they were pushing recruits too hard and that his son collapsed from dehydration.
In 2010, Norman Marburg’s cause of death was changed to “undetermined” by the US Army. Even though Norman wasn’t actually killed by a snake (or at least it seems unlikely), we felt that this snake story was too good not to include.

Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:03pm On Feb 22, 2018
Timothy Levins
In 2014, a 52-year-old father named Timothy Levins took his family camping at Sam A. Baker State Park in Missouri. He spotted a snake and wanted to show his teenage kids. Timothy bent over to pick up the snake even though he had no idea what species it was. The snake bit him.

Timothy walked back to the family’s
cabin so that he could wash the snake bite. Then he took a seat on the couch because he felt ill. At that point, he still wasn’t aware that the snake was a venomous copperhead.
His children witnessed their father convulsing on the couch, so they called 911. He died in the hospital that night. Timothy Levins was only the third person in the entire history of Missouri to die from a copperhead snake bite.
The Missouri Department of Conservation made a public statement that it’s more likely for someone to be killed by falling space debris than from a copperhead snake. Just don’t pick one up.

Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:02pm On Feb 22, 2018
Wade Westbrook
A 26-year-old Tennessee man named Wade Westbrook had an odd fascination with snakes . His mother had said that he was once bitten after picking up a copperhead and had survived after getting the antivenom.

In January 2011, a friend brought a venomous copperhead snake to Wade’s home. The police don’t believe that this man was keeping the snake as an illegal pet, although snakes normally hibernate in the winter.
The friend wanted to know the snake’s gender, and Wade was the local “snake expert.” In Tennessee, even transporting a snake requires a permit, so everything about this exchange was ill-advised.


Not surprisingly, the snake bit Wade. Instead of calling 911, he attempted to extract the venom from the bite. But Wade passed out. Scared and unsure of what to do next, the friend didn’t call an ambulance until Wade had been unconscious for 10 minutes and it was clear that his DIY antivenom had failed.
Wade died before he could reach the
hospital .

Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 6:00pm On Feb 22, 2018
Jack Redmond
Jack Redmond, a 70-year-old man from Virginia, devoted his free time in retirement to care for his collection of 40 snakes, 24 of which were venomous. The snakes all lived in his home in his spare room. When his wife knocked on the door to check on Redmond in October 2012, she discovered his lifeless body on the floor with a snake bite from a Chinese palm viper.

Since keeping venomous snakes as pets is illegal, the Chesterfield County police removed them from the Redmond home. The snakes were transported to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries so that authorities could find the reptiles a new home at the local zoo.

The snakes were healthy, and it was clear that Mr. Redmond had known how to care for the animals. He had been studying snakes since he was a kid. So it was strange that he would let his guard down around a viper.
Redmond was suffering from cancer. The police considered his death “suspicious,” so they opened an investigation. The results of that investigation, if any, were not made public.

Nairaland GeneralRe: 10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes by RoyalBlak007(op): 5:58pm On Feb 22, 2018
Grant Thompson
Texas is one of the few states in America that allows people to own dangerous exotic
pets as long as these individuals have permits. Grant Thompson’s parents owned a pet shop in Temple, Texas, and they lived in an apartment next to the store. One of 18-year-old Grant’s many duties was transporting snakes and tarantulas in his car.


The last time, he pulled into a Lowe’s parking lot and a cobra got out of its container. The snake bit Grant in the arms multiple times and then slithered out of the car.

When the police examined the scene, they believed that Grant had committed
suicide because he had a history of depression and it didn’t look like he had tried to pull away from the biting snake. Cobra venom is known to alter one’s mental state and paralyze the body. It takes 30 minutes for someone to die.

If he truly did commit suicide, he chose a very slow death. It took several days for the police to find the snake, although it was still hanging out in the Lowe’s parking lot. Thankfully, the snake did not claim any more victims.

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