Mysterious News Stalker

This guy has been making random appearances on live television for the last couple of months. So far he's appeared on BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera and NewsLite.

Paul Yarrow, a 42-year-old community worker from London can often be seen lurking in the background as reporters talk to camera.

Sometimes he's talking on his phone, sometimes he's reading a newspaper, but he always stands in front of the camera.
In fact his plump frame, balding head and trademark beige jumper made Yarrow and online sensation and sites were even set up to chart his appearances.

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A ghost train that travels through time and space

There are legends about the ghost train, which appears in different parts of the world.

On July 14, 1911, a tourist train arranged for rich Italians sent out to cruise from the Rome railway station. More than one hundred passengers saw sights located along the new rail way section. The train came up to a very long tunnel. And suddenly something terrible began to take place.

According to the two passengers managing to jump out on the run, everything got suddenly covered with a white fog that became more and more thickened and grew into a viscid liquid while the train approached the tunnel. The train entered the tunnel and ... disappeared.

After this occurrence the tunnel was stuffed with stones, and in the wartime an air bomb hit it.

If you believe the stories of numerous witnesses, since then, the train has become a ghost dangle around the world. The train was seen in many different countries - Norway, Great Britain, Russia.

That incident would be probably forgotten if the phantom didn’t appear in Ukrainene at small crossings, Poltava region.The train with the curtains tightly closed and operator's cab empty moved absolutely noiseless while smashing the hens walking over the tracks. According to eyewitnesses, the train passed by the old railway embankment, where the rails were dismantled long ago.
Chairman of the Board for Study of the Anomalous Phenomena Vasyl’ Petrovych Leschatyi arrived to explore this phenomenon. He suggested the train passed through the time in some way. Leschatyi found the records of the well known Mexican psychiatrist Jose Saxino from the middle of 19 century about once upon a time 104 Italians had appeared in Mexico City stating that they were arriving to Mexico City from Rome by train.

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The worst female killers in history

These women are proof that women can also be very cruel. Some of the killers on this list had mainly financial motives, some were seriously sick and some were probably just insane.
See the list of 11 of the worst female killers in history.

Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova (1730-1801), commonly known as Saltychikha was the torturess and murderess. According to the forensic detectives, over the period of six to seven years she murdered by various methods 139 people, among whom there were mainly women (only 3 of her victims were men), including young girls of 10-12 years of age.

Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova

Queen Mary I (1516-1558), Queen of England was unpleasantly remembered as "the Bloody Mary" for her persecution of Protestants in a vain attempt to restore Catholicism in England. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife.

Queen Mary I

Myra Hindley (1942-2002) was one of the most notorious serial killers in British history since Jack the Ripper. Hindley and her lover Ian Brady tortured, sexually abused and killed five children in the 1960s, burying their bodies in the bleak moors near the northern English city of Manchester.

Myra Hindley

Isabella I (1451–1504) was a Queen of Castile and León. She became famous for her cruelty toward non-Catholics. About 200 thousand people were forced to accept Christianity. She instituted the Tribunal of the Inquisition in Spain, which had murdered Jewish and Protestant victims in the name of religion, some of which were in a most gruesome manner, that of being strangled and/or burned-sometimes burned while alive.

 Isabella I

Beverley Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968), dubbed "the Angel of Death", is an English serial killer who murdered four children and injured nine others while working as a State Enrolled Nurse, on the children's ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire. Her main method of murder was to inject the child with potassium chloride (to cause cardiac arrest), or with insulin (to induce lethal hypoglycemia).

Beverley Gail Allitt

Mary Ann Cotton was an English Serial Killer and had killed more than 20 people, including her own children, by using arsenic and then collected their insurance money. She was hanged on the 24th of March, 1873 at the Durham County Jail.

Mary Ann Cotton

Belle Gunness (1859-1931) was responsible for the killings of more than 20 suitors and all of her children. Belle was also famous for burning down houses and collecting insurance money for the property and for her dead husbands. Later on, she progressed to placing an advertisement for a husband in a newspaper and luring prospective suitors to her home and killing them. She would bury the bodies in her farm and hog pen.

Belle Gunness

Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler (1906-1967), was the wife of Karl Koch, the first prominent Nazis to be tried by the US military.

After the trial was remitted under worldwide media attention, survivor accounts of her resulted in other authors describing her abuse of prisoners as "sadistic"; a shadow image as "concentration camp murderess" transfixed itself to post-war German society. She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was known as "The Witch of Buchenwald" by the inmates because of her alleged cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners.

  Ilse Koch, born Ilse Köhler

Irma Grese (1923-1945) was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen.

She was tried over the first period of the trials and was represented by Major L. Cranfield. The accusations against her centred on her ill-treatment and murder of those imprisoned at the camps, including setting dogs on inmates, shootings and sadistic beatings with a whip.

 Irma Grese

Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614)  was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. Although in modern times she has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history, evidence of her alleged crimes is scant and her guilt is debated. Nevertheless, she is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of Čachtice", after the castle near Trenčín in the Slovakia (Kingdom of Hungary in past), where she spent most of her adult life.

 Erzsébet Báthory

After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80.  Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, however, she was imprisoned in the Čachtice Castle, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.

Katherine Knight (born 1955) was the first Australian woman to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. She was convicted of the murder of her partner, John Charles Thomas Price in October 2001, and is currently detained in Mulawa Correctional Centre now known as Silverwater women's prison.

 Katherine Knight

She had stabbed Price with a butcher's knife while he was sleeping. According to the blood evidence, he awoke and tried to turn the light on before attempting to escape while Knight chased him through the house, he managed to open the front door and get outside but either stumbled back inside or was dragged back into the hallway where he finally died after bleeding out. Later, Knight went into Aberdeen and withdrew $1,000 from Price's ATM account. Price's autopsy revealed that he had been stabbed at least 37 times, in both the front and back of his body with many of the wounds extending into vital organs. Several hours after Price had died, Knight skinned him and hung the skin from a meat hook on the architrave of a door to the lounge room. She then decapitated him and cooked parts of his body, serving up the meat with baked potato, pumpkin, zucchini, cabbage, yellow squash and gravy in two settings at the dinner table, along with notes beside each plate, each having the name of one of Price's children on it; she was preparing to serve his body parts to his children. A third meal was thrown on the back lawn for unknown reasons and it is speculated Knight had attempted to eat it but could not and this has been put forward in support of her claim that she has no memory of the crime. Price's head was found in a pot with vegetables.

The longest place names in the world

Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg  is a small lake near the town of  Webster, Massachusetts, USA.
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a 45-letter alternative name for this body of fresh water, is often cited as the longest place name in the United States and one of the longest in the world. Today, "Webster Lake" may be the name most used, but some, take pride in reeling off the longer versions.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg sign (with 2 misspellings) 
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch  is a village in Wales. The long form of the name is the longest officially recognised place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest in the world, being 58 letters in length . The name means: St Mary's Church (Llanfair) in a hollow (pwll) of white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the swirling whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) of the church of St Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is the longest single word (without hyphens) .com domain name in the world.

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Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu is the Māori name for a hill, 305 metres (1,001 ft) high, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The name is often shortened to Taumata by the locals for ease of conversation. The New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, maintained by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), records the name as "Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu". The name on the sign that marks the hill is "Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukakapiki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­kitanatahu", which translates roughly as The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one. At 85 letters, it has been listed in the Guinness World Records as one of the longest place names in the world.

Other forms of the name are longer still: "Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­ure­haea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu" has 92 letters. An even longer version, Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-Tamatea-haumai-tawhiti-ure-haea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu, has 105 letters and means The hill of the flute playing by Tamatea — who was blown hither from afar, had a slit penis, grazed his knees climbing mountains, fell on the earth, and encircled the land — to his beloved.

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