Prince Poppycock is a stage character created by American singer, songwriter, and performer John Andrew Quale. He wears elaborate costumes and performs as a powdered-wigged dandy straight out of the French Baroque period and specialises in musical theatre and opera. Prince Poppycock...

Of the professionally produced content, music videos lead the pack on YouTube with their popularity, though there are many user generated videos that have something really unique about them that induces millions of people to watch. A quality that also encourages people to share them with their friends,...

Before the era of television, smart phones, computers and the internet, people had to amuse themselves by either listening to the radio, playing the phonograph, reading a comic or magazine, singing tunes around the family piano, a visit to the circus, cinema or carnival sideshow to view the freaks. ...

Kendra Wilkinson is an American television personality and glamour model. She is well known for her role on the E! reality-television show The Girls Next Door, on which her life as one of Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends was documented. Although not a Playboy Playmate, she has appeared in...

Yoga originated in India, from the meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It has since become popular in other countries as a form of exercise. The practice is more than twice the age of Christianity, though modern day participation is not dependant on religion. Western practitioners...

Tobacco commercials are not the only television advertisements being banned. Much depends on the country and the culture, as what is acceptable in Australia, New Zealand, Britain or Europe may not be in the United States of America. But then what tickles the US fancy may be totally illegal in the strict...

Turkey: Boy survives escalator fall A four-year-old boy has narrowly escaped injury after clinging to the outside rail of an escalator at a shopping centre in Istanbul, whilst visiting the centre with his father. He grasped the moving handrail, which then transported him up one floor above the...

Russian Bridge Sways in the Wind Russian authorities closed the newly built Volgograd Bridge to all motor traffic on May 21, 2010 due to strong oscillations caused by windy conditions of up to one-meter amplitude and the threat of it collapsing. The 7,110 meters long bridge is expected to...

New Zealand Leader Offends With Cannibal Joke New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key made a flippant remark about cannibalism at a tourism event in Auckland yesterday, which related to where he had been dining. Mr Key jokingly announced: “The good news is that I was having dinner...

Not all people are content to live a simple and natural life gaining their excitement from everyday adventures, or taking it further with extreme sports that increase the adrenaline or the endorphin enhancing activities of exercise or sex. Then there’s the more passive activities of being entertained...