The incredible story of ''Christian" the pet lion

Have you read or heard of the play by George Bernard Shaw "Androcles and the Lion" and wondered if it could ever happen? Could a carnivore, lion ever love a human being for the kindness he showed to it and display mercy in return ? Uh ! Hard to believe right ?

Androcles, who is a slave puts off pain from an ailing lion by removing a thorn stuck to its paw. He is captured and when was thrown into the gladiator to be killed by the lion, the lion happens to be the same lion which he had helped when he was hiding in the woods before being captured by the Roman soldiers.

It is a great story of human sport ever since and it had never been heard of to happen in real life ever until I read this story of a pet lion cub, Christian who was raised as a cub in a Chelsea London flat by John Rendall and Ace Berg. The cub was bought in 1969 at London's Harrod Store and was raised as if it was a pet dog. Later as Christian grew bigger, the owners happened to meet the stars of the movie Born free and inspired by the movie, they considered rehabilitating Christian back to the wild and introduced him back to the woods in Nairobi Kenya's Kora national park. Year after year, the owners go to visit Christian at his newfound natural home, not expecting him to remember them, but to their heartknotting surprise, Christian unfailingly recognizes them and shows how much he misses them by hugging them around the shoulders lovingly the way he always did. Watch this video to see this touching story of Christian. After seeing this story, all I did was just cried !




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The Cricket game was invented in Belgium !

The German academic Heiner Gillmeister and his Australian colleague, John Campbell uncovered an apparent reference to cricket in the 16th Century work, "The Image of Ipocrisie", attributed to the English poet John Skelton, which refers to Flemish weavers who settled in southern and eastern England. They are described as "kings of crekettes"; "wickettes" are mentioned too. It is thought the weavers brought the game to England and played it close to where they looked after theirsheep, using shepherd’s crooks as bats. The discovery challenges the long established theory thatthe sport evolved from English children’s games.

He points to a 1533 poem attributed to John Skelton, a poet and playwright, named The Image of Ipocrisie

O ! lodre of Ipocrites,

Nowe shut vpp your wickettes,

And clappe to your clickettes!

A! Farewell, kings of crekettes!

Mr Campbell’s research was based on earlier investigations by Mr Gillmeister, a linguist from the University of Bonn. He is certain cricket cannot have started in England. "There is no way to relate the term to any existing English word," he told the BBC. "I was brought up with Flemish children and I know the language well.

I immediately thought of the Flemish phrase ’met de krik ketsen’which means to ’chase a ball with a curved stick’." In response, cricket historian David Frith said: "It is hard to deny that this is a breakthrough. This discovery points to an addition to the great historyof cricket." He added: "It does make you wonder why Belgium isn’t playing test cricket though,doesn’t it?"

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

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Convert your iTouch into an iPhone using Skype

From a distance, you cannot make out the difference between an iTouch and an iPhone. Your budget may not let you buy the iPhone for its expensive data features and the recurring, yet again expensive monthly dataplan. But you are not far from making inexpensive calls using your iTouch and almost pay nothing for making inexpensive calls whatever the destination is !

Well, how can you get your iTouch upgrade to an iPhone ? can you really make calls using the iPhone ? ...Well, Yes !

What does it cost ?...Nothing much.

All you need is the hands free cable that is available for the iPhone. This is the cable that has the earbuds and the tiny microphone alongside. This is the way you are gonna be able to talk through the iTouch. Without this headset, iTouch is designed only for outputting music.

Just note that the iTouch can act as your phone only where you can access Wi-fi. Do not expect the itouch to be able to allow you make a call when you are hiking in the desert.

Yes, I understand is what you say !. Ok, move on !

Using the Wi-fi connection on your itouch, download Skype for iPhone/Itouch from the iTunes store. Once you install this, attach the headset cord (microphone with speakers) like the ones you use for iPhone to connect to your iTouch. You can login to your skype account or create one to get started. Also consider getting a suitable subscription to make local calls and international calls over skype. An itouch at home can double up as your music player ond your home phone by using skype.