cachinnate word dictionary meaning

Interesting Word cachinnate Meaning  > To laugh out aloud in the most inappropriate or silly way. We all know someone who has cachinnated, indeed we do it ourselves sometimes. We break up laughing over something that most people would not find funny at all and this cachinnating laughter can be socially embarrassing. Example : The villain began to cachinnate as he was jailed for 10 years by the judge of the court.  The villain thought it was very funny to be sentenced to 10 years but obviously the judge, the jury and everyone around him did not find it funny at all

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Joke : Superman : Empire State Building

Source Three guys were standing at the top of the Empire State Building in New York. The first guy says to the second, "You know, the wind currents are so strong here in New York that one could step off the edge of the building and literally float in mid-air due to the upward thrust of the thermal air current." "No way, man, you're crazy," said the second guy to the first. So the first guy steps off the edge of the building and just floats in mid-air for about 20 seconds and then returns to the roof of the building. The second guy is simply thrilled and says, "watch me do that" as he steps from the edge roof into the open air. Of course he falls like a stone straight down all the way to the waiting pavement below--SPLAT! The third guy, who has remained quiet the entire time, leans over to the first guy and say, "You know something Superman, sometimes you can be a real pain!"

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Agent Zigzag Eddie Chapman Book Review

Agent Zigzag: True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Notorious Double Agent of World War II by Ben Macintyre : Book Review

War does something to people that otherwise would never happen, it can make heroes out of some and villains out of others, both seem to happened to Eddie Chapman. He was a petty criminal who by various routes from a Scottish Jail ended up in Germany as a double agent both for Germany and for England and this is his true story.

Ben Macintyre is a British author, historian, and newspaper columnist. He writes about various topics ranging from historical to current events.

Some ordinary people reviews from Amazon.co.uk

"This book has been much reviewed and hyped. That usually makes me nervous but the praise is well meritted. It is a great story well told. The pacey narrative matches the racey lifestyle of Eddie Chapman. Chapman was a criminal and philanderer whose charm won through despite his duplicitous behaviour."

"Seriously, If this was work of fiction it would leave the reader thinking that the story was too far fetched. However, this is not a work of fiction but is a factual account of the British and German secret service and in particular, one man, double agent Eddie Chapman"

Video - Ben Macintyre talks about his book Agent Zigzag - Double Agent



Interesting Links for David Nicholls and his books

Ben Macintyre from Wikipedia

Agent Zigzag: True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman from Amazon.co.uk

Books from Ben Macintyre on Amazon.co.uk

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Video : Street Art : Monsters

Monsters are on the streets of New York City, made out of plastic bags, blown up by the exhausts of the New York Subway. What you get is something very creative, how did he think up such an idea ? something a bit on the strange surreal side !

Interesting link on street art 

20 awesome examples of street art from designer-daily.com The street art on this page shows there is a great difference between that and common graffiti which more often than not is just plain vandalism.

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barfalicious word dictionary meaning

Interesting Word barfalicious Meaning  > Something that induces vomiting like food that is not cooked properly or object that is just plain disgusting.

Great act of kindness

Yes, recently a lady knocked on the door saying she had found one of my neighbours, who has learning difficulties, wondering the streets in a confused and distressed state.

The lady managed to calm my neighbour down, find out where she lived and brought her home.

She could have left this situation to the police or some social agency but she took it upon herself to help another human being in distress.

We all know that at times life can be hard and very difficult but there are many people out there who shine a light through the darkness without any thought of return for themselves to help others in need.

A great act of kindness that so often goes unreported that is now reported. :-)

If you know of a great act of kindness let us know in the comment box below.

Video : Panama Canal : Time Lapse : Facts

Before the Panama was finally constructed in 1914 sailors and ships had to make a very long perilous journey around the Cape Horn thousands of miles away around the bottom of South America. Here you can make the journey with a time lapse video in just a couple of minutes.

Facts about the Panama Canal 1. The Panama Canal has been named one of the seven modern wonders of the world. 2. Building the canal took 10 years from 1904 to 1914 3. The Panama Canal is a major shortcut from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans. Before the canal shipping had to make a perilous sailing all the way down to Cape Horn at the tip of South America and back again. 4. There was an previous attempt in 1880 to build the canal under the French. It was abandoned after nearly 23000 workers died through disease, accidents and it seems just plain incompetence. The present canal cost over 5000 deaths under American leadership, better, but poor comfort for the souls lost. In other words the human cost was terrible. 5. The Canal is 77 kilometres long or 48 miles and runs through the state of Panama in Central America. 6. What is a Panamax ? Its the maximum size of a ship that is allowed through the canal without getting stuck or scrapping the bottom. 65000 to 80000 tonnes with a maximum cargo of 56000 tonnes at present. In 2006 the Third lock lane project was begun to increase the size of locks, making everything bigger, wider and deeper. This would grant larger ships access. Ships capable of getting through then will have the label of the "New Panamax" attached to them. 7. Typical journey time on a ship through the canal is 10 hours which is an amazing time saved for the weeks to navigate around Cape Horn. 8. Ships going through the canal have to pay a toll to contribute to its upkeep and the average toll apparently is $54000. 9. After many protests from the Panamanians the Americans ceded control of the canal to Panama in 1999 so long as it remained a neutral entity. 10. In 1934 the capacity of the canal was estimated to take about 80 million tons per year, in 2009 there was nearly 300 million tons of shipping.

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