Horrific histories: Egypt’s cannibal holocaust
A little known period of Egyptian history reveals almost unspeakable horrors of grotesque acts of cannibalism and vile murder. Egypt suffered from a seven year famine which began around the year 1201 and resulted from the Nile running almost dry. During this time renowned Iraqi historian and Egyptologist Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (عبداللطيف البغدادي) was living in [...]
It’s prize-draw time again, and we have a marvellous bottle of premium Absente to give away. Absente is one of the best absinthes on the market, made in the traditional manner including a full measure of the legendary and notorious wormwood. This gift-boxed booze comes complete with its own absinthe spoon so you can enjoy [...]
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Dr. Robert E. Cornish was a highly gifted American biologist who received his doctorate from the University of California in 1924, aged just twenty-two. Cornish remained at the Berkeley campus of the university carrying out research and working on various outrageous projects, such as reading glasses for underwater, but in 1932 shortly after Universal Pictures [...]
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This here is the Morningstarr* top ten of deadly critters. If you’re out in the wilderness and plan on getting mauled, eaten, poisoned or similar then these are the beauties you want to be doing you in. #10 Tiger Top of the list is the wonderful tiger (Panthera tigris). Biggest of the big cats, the [...]
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Welcome to the new year everyone, have we all sobered up? Well here at the Morningstarr* nerve centre we had a smashing Christmas with just a limited number of casualties and after the hangovers subsided we discovered we still had a bunch of bottles of booze left thanks to our good friends at Drinks Direct. [...]
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Happy New Year dear Morningstarr* readers and welcome to 2012, a year which promises to be your last. Yes according to some old Mayan calendar we’ll not see another new year, so I hope you all did plenty of celebrating last night. 2011 was another good year here at Morningstarr* Towers, we have a record [...]
Continue reading …This year’s hottest Christmas toy, on the top of every kid’s letter to Santa, is an amazing dog poo game featuring a farting plastic dachshund that craps plasticine turds! The Doggie Doo Game from Goliath Toys was invented 15 years ago, and incredibly no toy company took the inventors up on their offer to manufacture [...]
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#10 A 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Competizione sold at the RM Auctions in Maranello, Italy, on 20th May 2007 for £2,874,900 #9 A 1958 Ferrari 412S sold at the RM Auctions in Monterey, California, USA on 18th August 2006 for £2,961,063 #8 A 1904 Rolls-Royce 10hp two-seater sold at Bonhams, Olympia, London on 3rd december [...]
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Following months of negotiations between film studios and the British Board of Film Classification The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been given an 18 certificate and granted a UK release. However, in order to win the certification Bounty Films were required to make 32 separate cuts to the film, removing a full two minutes [...]
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