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May 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

banksy tribute to health care workers

Banksy Donates New Artwork To A Hospital To Celebrating Health Care Workers

A new Banksy artwork paying tribute to National Health Service workers has turned up at Southampton General Hospital in England. The painting, titled Game Changer (2020), was delivered to the hospital along with a note that read: “Thanks for all you’re doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if its only black and white.” The hospital houses a significant testing facility that is currently running trials on potential Covid-19 vaccines.

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May 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

children's playground 1912

Children’s playground in 1912

If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer as well. Thanks to state laws and personal injury lawyers, the landscape of the typical playground has changed a lot over the years, making it a safer and more “educationally interactive” environment. On the other hand, maybe those rough-and-tumble recreation areas of yesteryear served as an early life lesson that the world was a harsh and unforgiving place.

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May 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

john cena make a wish

Despite the Worldwide Pandemic, John Cena still decided to work with the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and flew out to give a kid a moment he’ll never forget.

John Cena has made the most Make-A-Wish contributions than anyone else in their history, 650+

“I said, ‘If you ever need me for this ever, I don’t care what I’m doing, I will drop what I’m doing and be involved because I think that’s the coolest thing. We’ve all experienced that joy of giving a gift for the holidays where you just nail it — that’s the same gift I get in giving back to people’s lives, in being able to give them wonderful emotional moments”

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May 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

Thích Quang Duc burning monk

Thích Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963, Photo by Malcolm Browne

Along about springtime (1963), the monks began to hint that they were going to pull off something spectacular by way of protest–and that would most likely be a disembowelment of one of the monks or an immolation. And either way, it was something we had to pay attention to.

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May 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

shane burcaw

Strangers assume this disabled man’s girlfriend is his nurse. Shane Burcaw and Hannah Aylward, breaking down the stigma surrounding inter-abled relationships

Shane Burcaw, 26, has been in a wheelchair since the age of 2. He was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a progressive neuromuscular disease that prevents him from walking and moving his limbs.

Shane essentially has no muscles. He has never walked and never properly developed into a full-grown man.

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May 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

dog saves owners life by laying on him

Dog lays on top of a paralyzed man to save him from freezing to death

When a Michigan man named Bob slipped in the snow and broke his neck outside his home on New Year’s Eve, he thought all hope was lost. His nearest neighbor was about a quarter of a mile away, and he couldn’t move.

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April 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

violet jessop

Violet Jessop, an Irish woman who survived not one, not two, but THREE of the most catastrophic ship disasters of the 20th century.

Violet Jessop worked on the RMS Olympic when it hit another ship and nearly sank. She went on to work on its sister ship RMS Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank. Later she served on the other sister ship HHMS Britannic when it hit a mine and also sank.

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April 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

robert forestmann leg

The legs of German Olympic sprint cyclist Robert ‘Quadzilla’ Forstemann

Apparently he has a Myostatin deficiency. Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy is a rare genetic condition characterized by reduced body fat and increased skeletal muscle size. Affected individuals have up to twice the usual amount of muscle mass in their bodies.

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April 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

japanese school janitors

Most Japanese schools do not employ janitors or custodians. The Japanese education system believes that requiring students to clean the school themselves teaches respect, responsibility, and emphasizes equality

They hire maintenance staff, but no janitors. This is because the students and staff do all of the cleaning themselves. This takes place every day, usually for 10 or 15 minutes, depending on the school, longer before vacations, and sometimes twice a day. (This might happen the day of the school festival, or on graduation day.)

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April 27, 2020 Leave a Comment

before and after limb lengthening surgery chandler crews

Before and after limb lengthening surgery

Lengthening works by separating the bone and distracting (pulling apart) the bone segments very slowly so that new bone continues to form in the gap. As the bone segments are slowly distracted, the bone regenerates, resulting in increased length. The device that performs the lengthening is called a fixator.

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