For complete World Cup 2014 coverage visit Yahoo Sports and follow @YahooSoccer RIO DE JANEIRO â€" Germany became World Cup champion for the fourth time on Sunday night, and the first European team in history to clinch soccer's greatest prize on South American soil. It did so courtesy of a winner deep into extra time from substitute Mario Gotze, who displayed a brilliant piece of skill to decide a contest...
Sunday, July 13, 2014
The Sad, Strange And True Tale Of The Tallest Woman In The World
In 1976, in Shelbyville, Ind., a city of about 20,000 southeast of Indianapolis, a film premiere was held. The picture was Fellini’s Casanova. A highly conceptual Italian art house flick about sexual deviance was not what this audience was used to; the house, nonetheless, was packed. A local was in it, a 21-year-old everyone knew about but whom few knew well. She now sat nervously waiting for it to start, concerned...
Saturday, July 12, 2014
How Not To Die On The World's Tallest Waterslide (By Someone Who Lived)
The world's tallest waterslide, located in Schiltterbahn's Kansas City waterpark, opened to the public this Thursday. I had the honor/horror of being part of that public. This is my story. If you're not familiar with the world's tallest waterslide by this point, here are a few fun facts about its record-breaking delights:It's called...
How A Surgeon And Titanium Cured My Lifelong Deafness
I've never been able to hear well. As a child, I was in and out of the hospital as doctors struggled to treat chronic ear infections that left me in throbbing pain and, eventually, relative silence. By the time I went to college, I had only one half-functioning ear drum and no hope of regaining the hearing I'd lost after years of damage....
A Photo Shared So Many Times That The Original Is Impossible To Find
In his ‘Jennifer in Paradise Series’, Constant Dullart revisits this image by John Knoll. Endlessly shared on the internet, the original high res version is impossible to find. Remembering Jennifer in Paradise: Constant Dullaart at Carroll / Fletcher, London The Dutch artist Constant Dullaart investigates the infancy of...
Friday, July 11, 2014
How We End Up Marrying The Wrong People
Anyone we could marry would, of course, be a little wrong for us. It is wise to be appropriately pessimistic here. Perfection is not on the cards. Unhappiness is a constant. Nevertheless, one encounters some couples of such primal, grinding mismatch, such deep-seated incompatibility, that one has to conclude that...
A Deluded German And Three Dead Bodies
In the late 1960s, a man turned up in the Brazilian state of Acre, deep in the Amazon region. He was wearing a loincloth and a feather, carried a bow and claimed he was Tatunca Nara, chief of the Ugha Mongulala. No one had ever heard of an Indian tribe with that name. In addition, the man bore no resemblance whatsoever to an Indian. He was white and spoke with a strong French accent. He said he had inherited...
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