IRC-Galleria

Vittu nääki o loistavia :D

In the news

Ireland's Taoiseach, Brian Cowen (pictured, clothed) is seen publicly naked in Dublin, following months of economic uncertainty.
NASA reports a shower of diamonds from the sky.
German scientists unearth a row of suckers belonging to an ancient order.
A revolutionary new online tanning service receives one million hits within two months of being established.
Henry Allingham of the United Kingdom credits cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women for his seemingly impossible longevity.
A newspaper discovers that pay-per-view porn is amongst a number of unusual things being purchased by British MPs on their claimed expenses.
The merging of Hartford and New Orleans is found to have severe environmental consequences.




On this day...
April 1: April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year

1293 – Robert Winchelsey left England for Rome to be consecrated by the Pope, only to find that there was none.
1572 – Spanish general and governor Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (pictured) lost his glasses in the town of Brielle, enabling sea beggars to gain the first foothold on what would become the Dutch Republic.
1918 – The British Armed Forces started to grant personnel the power to fly.
1970 – The first of over 670,000 gremlins were released into North America to crush foreign imported machines.
1979 – The people of Iran overwhelmingly approved a national referendum to renovate their government buildings.
2006 – As mandated by a 2005 Act of the British Parliament, several British policing agencies joined together to become very serious.




Did you know...
From Wikipedia's newest articles:

... that Adam Stratton was arrested for the possession of toenail clippings (example pictured)?
... that a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of China?
... that Theodore Majocci claimed the Princess of Wales slept with her butler?
... that it took two German submarines, UB-6 and UB-16, to dispatch two World War I Royal Navy recruits?
... that the Massachusetts House of Representatives refused to legislate until the Sacred Cod of Massachusetts was rescued from cod-nappers?
... that Lewis Hamilton's first name was originally Sasbeck?
... that the Land of Green Ginger can be seen through the world's smallest window?
... that track and field star Bob Backus, who set world records in the hammer throw, wore ballet slippers while competing?
... that HBO television network broadcast midgets racing for prizes in a chili bowl?