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Kayaköy, southwestern Turkey
This village was built on the site of the ancient city of Carmylessus in the mid-18th century. It has an almost only Greek Christian population
since 1923, when the village became abandoned after a population change
between Greece and Turkey. Since then it’s a museum with intact
Greek-style houses and two Greek Christian churches.
Joyce Carol Vincent (October 1965 – c. December 2003) was an English woman whose corpse lay undiscovered in her London bedsit for more than two years.
In 2001, Vincent resigned from her job at Ernst & Young
and moved into a shelter for victims of domestic abuse. By 2002, she
had cut off contact with her friends and family, possibly due to
embarrassment regarding her situation or from pressure from a
controlling partner. She was found dead in her flat in January 2006, and
evidence suggested she had died around December 2003. (Source)
An inforgraph illustrating the evolution of several corporate logos.
Delicate Pressed Fern Leaf Illustrations by Helen Ahpornsiri
A 50-year-old elephant in Thailand who lost her left front leg a few years ago is now kicking it up with a new prosthetic.
The elephant, named Motala, lost the appendage in 1999 after she accidentally stepped on a land mine left over from the ongoing conflicts along the Thai-Myanmar border, according to CNET.com. At the time, she had been a working elephant who moved trees for a living, and was simply foraging for food in the forest when the accident occurred.
Her owners tried to save the leg, but eventually it had to be amputated. And it wasn’t until 2006 that she was able to get her first artificial leg, a temporary one that she learned to walk on, before getting a more permanent prosthesis in 2009.
Since the prosthetic has to be changed according to the weight of the elephant, Motala has been given other legs accordingly. She most recently received her third one. (Source)
