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Imagine Being Thrilled Living in Basket

Web News 25 September 2023 177 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi The Big Basket building, in Newark, Ohio, was built as the headquarters of the Longaberger Company, an American manufacturer of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other lifestyle products The Longaberger basket building was birthed by Dave Longaberger  “I figured if Continue Reading

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Drunk House in Sopot Popping Imagination  

Web News 21 September 2023 177 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi ‘Crooked house’, a hot spot for criminals would naturally run through the mind, but wait a minute, it is equally called ‘Drunk house’. Guess the dubious lots in the house are also riotous ale gulpers. Nope! Crooked house is way out of that, it is rather an architectural magic in Poland.   […]Continue Reading

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Why Big Duck Matters for Flanders

Web News 18 September 2023 139 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi At the dawn of the Great Depression, Long Island duck farmer Martin Maurer and his wife, Jeule, were on a road trip and enjoyed a cup of Joe inside a big coffee pot. They decided, the story goes, that if the world can have a big coffee pot, then it really needs […]Continue Reading

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When Spain’s Haro Bathes with Wine

Web News 11 September 2023 162 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi What It Feels everyone covers each other with wine splashed from all manner of containers like buckets, cups, bottles, jugs and even water pistols. The battle of the wine in Haro, Spain is a Spanish fiesta like no other. It is messy, wet, hot and sticky but undoubtedly exuberant, crazy, juvenile and […]Continue Reading

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Queer Initiation Rites of Papua New Guinea Sambians

Web News 7 September 2023 130 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi The Sambian people of Papua New Guinea practice one of the most bizarre cultures known to westernization. A cultural anthropologist, Gilbert Herdt, has described their ritual act of initiation as “ritualised homosexuality.” Once they turn seven or nine, they are taken away from their mothers. This process allows for the detachment of […]Continue Reading

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Queer: Tribe Indulges Six-Year-Olds in Sexual Activities

Web News 4 September 2023 118 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi The Trobrianders of the Trobriand Island got their name from the lieutenant of a French ship that landed in the archipelago of Papua New Guinea. They reside in the Kiriwina Island, one of the largest in the archipelago, and still maintain their ways of life: principally fishing and agriculture. Despite the attempts […]Continue Reading

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Handling Sexual Temptation as a Teenager

Web News 29 August 2023 141 0

As a flower blooms at maturation, so are young boys and girls as they approach the teen age. At this stage of their life, their physical features become more noticeable and they become more attractive to observers.  Individually they are more aware of this striking change that has occurred in their physical appearance, and within […]Continue Reading

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What’s all the fuss about Holiday lessons?

Web News 26 August 2023 140 0

By Maxwell Oyekunle Holiday is coming!Holiday is coming!No more clanging bellsNo more teachers’ whip!Goodbye teachers, goodbye scholarsWe are going on a jolly holiday! Girls: A jolly –All: Holiday!Girls: A jolly –All: Holiday! A time it was when the song above “Holiday is Coming” rents the air at the scent of the approach of the period […]Continue Reading

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Death Stalks Nation’s Streets in Garb of Mentally Challenged (Video)

Web News 23 August 2023 237 0

By Simeon Ugbodovon/Tope Bolugbe Taking a walk around areas including Oke-Ado, Orita-Challenge, J. Allen junction, Dugbe Bank Road, Dugbe-Eleyele route in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital,  it is not unusual to catch sight of mentally challenged persons. Some of whom can be seen lying on road medians, marketplaces, and road intersections.  And their number Continue Reading

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The Land Where Eggs Never Tilt When Perched on Nails ( Video)

Web News 23 August 2023 163 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Something unique about Ecuador! Want to know it? Then stream along. First let’s get to know where Ecuador is. The country is located in the western corner at the top of the South American continent. Ecuador is named after the Equator, an imaginary line that demarcates and separates the earth into two: […]Continue Reading

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Brightening Your Health with Dates

Web News 21 August 2023 371 0

By Oluwayemisi Owonikoko Surely, you have heard of dates, had a glimpse of it, or have had the opportunity of consuming the fruit.  Whichever category you fall in, try tagging along with this article as it contains interesting mines. Dates date back to almost 5320 BC, and are basically tropical fruits that are grown on […]Continue Reading

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When Talent Beckons for Insight

Web News 21 August 2023 140 0

By Taiwo Akinola How do you discover your talents? Find time to read this piece, and you will be gingered to discover your talents easily. What is talent? “Talent” is a natural ability to do something exceptionally, or an inbuilt in human life. Meanwhile, people mistaken talents to gifts, there is a difference between talents […]Continue Reading

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Cookies Tells Tales of Life in Haiti (Includes Video)

Web News 21 August 2023 316 0

 By Titilayo Kupoliyi C is for Cookie, and that’s good enough for me. Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C.” It’s the song that defined the childhood of countless Western children – Sesame Street’s beloved Cookie Monster, tucking into his favorite sweet snack. Cookies remain a beloved treat throughout America and beyond, with numerous kids looking […]Continue Reading

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Meet Brazil’s Scary Eight-Foot Murderess

Web News 14 August 2023 252 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Brazilian wandering spiders, also called armed spiders or banana spiders, belong to the genus Phoneutria, which means “murderess” in Greek. And it’s no wonder why it’s one of the most venomous spiders on Earth. Its bite, which delivers neurotoxic venom, can be deadly to humans, especially children, although antivenom makes death Continue Reading

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Derive Pleasures from Dinners of Bamboo Leaves

Web News 7 August 2023 405 0

By Titilayo kupoliyi The versatile bamboo leaves are from the Poaceae grass family, found in tropical and subtropical areas, especially in the monsoon and wet tropics. The grass grows as tall as 40 meters and offers a host of vitamins and minerals. Yoruba called it Ewe Oparun, Bishiyar Bamboo in Hausa and Igbo call it […]Continue Reading

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If we don’t deal with sexual violence and child marriage, they will deal with us – CSOs

Web News 2 August 2023 211 0

Funmi Adekoya in this piece examines sexual and gender-based violence and Child Early and Forced Marriage as social menace that require concerted efforts to checkmate Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, SGBV, is any harmful act perpetrated against a person’s will, and that is based on socially ascribed differences between male and female. These include rape, domestic Continue Reading

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Unravelling Cinnamon (Eso Igi Oloorun, Pawuda, Sanda Kafir)

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By Titilayo Kupoliyi Care to know what cinnamon is? Or want to have a feel of what it does to your kinetics, health and metabolism; then read this. Cinnamon is a spice that is made from the inner bark of trees scientifically known as Cinnamomum. It has been used as an ingredient throughout history, dating […]Continue Reading

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Do You Know the Crab That lives Up to a Century?

Web News 29 July 2023 192 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi The Japanese spider crab is a giant crustacean that can grow up to 12.5 feet. It is most commonly found on the Pacific side of Japan. At first glance, they look like ancient monsters that have crawled straight out of a sci-fi movie. However, in the marine community, they are known to […]Continue Reading

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Twitter Dons New Name, Logo

Web News 24 July 2023 184 0

Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk and its new CEO says the social media network would ditch its bird logo, be rebranded with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce. Founded in 2006, Twitter takes its name from the sound of birds chattering, and it has used avian branding since its early days, […]Continue Reading

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Friendly Herbs for Healthy Mouth

Web News 19 July 2023 301 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Nature has a cure for everything lest we fail to realize its worth. Usage of herbs in food was a common phenomenon in the olden times. Herbs were used for their medicinal values and to cure ailments. These days we mostly rely on chemicals and toxins rich healthcare products that might work […]Continue Reading

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Meet Some Weird but Fascinating Fishes

Web News 17 July 2023 200 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Sawfish Sawfish are a group of ray-like fish belonging to the family Pristidae. Also known as carpenter sharks, they are characterized by their amazing long, flat, tooth-lined snouts, which are used to detect and stun prey. Sawfish are found in coastal waters of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific. Five different species of sawfish […]Continue Reading

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Video: Mayor in Mexico Marries Alligator

Web News 3 July 2023 315 0

A mayor in Mexico has married a female alligator-like animal in a traditional ceremony which is believed to bring good fortune to his people. Victor Hugo Sosa wed the caiman reptile called Alicia Adriana as he re-enacted an ancestral ritual. Local lore, or tradition, calls the creature the “princess girl” and the mayor said the […]Continue Reading

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Disease: Rescue Can Come from Spiders

Web News 3 July 2023 231 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Worryingly described by entomologists and arachnologists as a “not uncommon” occurrence in certain parts of the globe, spider rain can see anywhere from a few thousand to several million spiders tumble from the sky in a given area, seemingly out of nowhere. So what causes it? This is thanks to a rather […]Continue Reading

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Bars Where You Pay to Get Slapped

Web News 29 June 2023 193 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi What would be your response if someone slaps you, not because you offended the person but all because you wanted to purchase something on sale? I guess quite a lot of you out there will not take it; rowdy scenes and fisticuffs might follow flared up tempers! But that is the culture […]Continue Reading

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Dare to Sell Refrigerators to Eskimos

Web News 26 June 2023 711 0

By Titilayo Kupoliyi Eskimos live in Arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Greenland where temperatures, with the wind chill factor, are frequently as low as 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-34.4 degrees Celsius). The Eskimos may use sleds to travel on ice and they may use boats called kayaks on water. They do not live in […]Continue Reading