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Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Ivan Stoiljkovic (born 2005) is a Croatian boy who is purportedly able to "magnetically" attract metal objects to his body. Stoiljkovic, who lives in the city of Koprivnica, also could rollerblade at the age of 15 months, having learnt to walk at the age of 8 months. He learnt how to ride a small motorcycle at the age of two. His family also claim that he has magical healing powers, which he used to cure a stomach wound incurred by his grandfather.
In many respects, Ivan Stoiljkovic is much like any other six-year-old boy in his city.
He enjoys kicking a ball around in the garden of the home he shares with his family and is learning to play the accordion as a hobby.
But there are some areas of his magnetic personality where Ivan differs greatly - namely his ability to stick metal objects to his body.
There are also claims from his family in Koprivnica, in Northern Croatia, of unusual levels of strength and even healing powers.
But one thing is for certain - when Ivan takes off his shirt, he is able to stick metallic objects such as spoons, mobile phones and even frying pans to his body.
In total, his family says, he can carry up to 25kg of metal stuck to his torso.
In the video below, his grandmother Dragica adds metal objects of various sizes to his torso, including a huge metal frying pan.
'I have no problem to hold metal objects, but eventually I get tired,' said Ivan.
But that isn't the end to Ivan's unusual talents.
According to his family, Ivan has also used his 'healing' hands to alleviate stomach pains for his grandfather Ivo and is credited with soothing the pain of a neighbour who hurt his leg in a tractor accident.
Ivan said that when his grandson laid his hands on his stomach, they became extremely hot and the pain simply went away.
'When something hurts us, we ask Ivan to put his hands on the sore and the pain disappears in a flash,' said Dragica.
If that wasn't enough, it is also claimed Ivan is much stronger than other children his age and is able to easily carry bags of cement as heavy as 50lb.
His abilities echo the character Magneto, as featured in the X-Men comics and films, a mutant who has the ability to manipulate metals.
Magneto was played by Sir Ian McKellen in the X-men trilogy of films, and will be played by Michael Fassbender in the upcoming prequel X-Men: First Class.
Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Ivan Stoiljkovic - Magnetic Child
Strange Sheep Gives Birth To Dog | Rare And Unusual Animals
Vets say it’s impossible - but to Chinese farmer Liu Naiying his birth is a miracle.
For Mr Liu insists one of his sheep has given birth to a dog
The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but its mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail look more like a dog's.
His 'sheep dog' even plays like a hound.
The birth has prompted thousands to flock to his farm in Shaanxi Province to see for themselves.
Mr Liu told how he found the unusual baby animal shortly after it was born in one of his fields.
‘I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,’ he said.
‘When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog.
I was a bit frightened, as I've been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature.’
Yue Guozhang, a researcher at Xi'an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre, said sheep and dogs were different species.
‘It's not possible that a sheep could become pregnant with a puppy,’ he said. ‘It's likely that this is just an abnormal lamb.’
Strange Sheep Gives Birth To Dog | Rare And Unusual Animals
Naaman Amer World's youngest Twenty-month-old Palestinian boy enjoys eating hot pepper at his home in the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 11, 2010. Amer started eating pepper in all meals when he was in his fourteenth month as he is considered the youngest hot pepper-eater in the world.
Liu Wei Armless Pianist A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won China's Got Talent, performing his version of James Blunt's love song You're Beautiful to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium.
All three judges on the show Sunday praised 23-year-old Liu Wei for his determination, urging him to keep on pursuing his dreams, and the Beijing native said he would try, quipping, "At least I have a pair of perfect legs."
For winning the Chinese version of the show that helped make Britain's Susan Boyle a singing star, Mr Liu will be invited to play as a guest performer with Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. He also has the chance for a performing contract.
Mr Liu's arms were amputated after he suffered an electrical shock while playing hide-and-seek when he was 10. At age 18, he decided to pursue a career in music, using his feet to play the piano, much as he uses them to navigate on the computer, eat, dress and brush his teeth.
China's Got Talent, a weekly program shown on local channel Dragon TV, has helped draw attention to the hopes and challenges of disabled and otherwise disadvantaged Chinese. It featured scores of acts, including a 7-year-old standup comedian, Zhang Fengxi, who won second place.
The program, which began in July, is part of British recording executive Simon Cowell's "Got Talent" franchise, which now has versions broadcasting in more than 30 countries.
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Bolivian woman Carol Ortiz - A 21 young Bolivian woman desperately needs an operation to reduce her gigantic breasts that weigh 20 pounds–the equivalent of an automobile tire!
who suffers gigantonastia, or hypertrophy of breast, speaks to her mother at her house in Trinidad, some 540 km (336 miles) northeast of La Paz, October 5, 2010. Carol has a baby and her family cannot afford the medical treatment, according to local media.
breast–a condition that can be brought on by hormonal changes in the body like puberty or pregnancy–that causes breasts to balloon to abnormal proportions.
The new mother says she experiences frequent pain and now has a bent back
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Deviant Artist Kalapusa, best known for his Piranha Plant garden sculpture, is back at it, this time with a lifelike Pac-Man sculpture. As you can see, Pac isn't nearly as adorable when rendered in more than 8-bits, which is exactly why you should never make love to Ms. Pac-Man
has created a “realistic” yet very alien version of Pac-Man.
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Our Humble Host & The Human Block, is a professional, award winning, comedy sideshow magician who delivers powerful, amazing and devilishly wild magic. He has entertained people from China to Coney Island, concert halls to intimate private parties. He is extremely funny, classy, astonishing and above all, amazingly entertaining.
Albert’s unique performances include eating razor blades and a 3’ long balloon, hammering 6” spikes into his face, electrocuting himself with 20,000 volts of electricity and turning his assistant into a gorilla. He makes people and animals appear and vanish at will and also escapes from chains, shackles, locked crates and straight jackets all with the flair, style, class and great sense of humor you would expect from this seasoned, professional sideshow magician.
One hundred sixty-three couples in Taiwan were married in a mass ceremony at 9:09 a.m. Thursday, the ninth day of the ninth month of the 99th year since the founding of their republic.
The word for nine in Chinese sounds exactly like the word for longevity, so there was method in the decision by Taipei city authorities to organize the nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine nuptials when they did.
Taipei Mayor Hau Long-bin, naturally dressed to the nines, was all smiles during the event, going the whole nine yards to make everyone feel the true weight of the occasion.
"I congratulate all the couples," he said.
Groom Ryan Chen said participating in the ceremony to tie the knot with bride Chang Ya-chi was a no-brainer.
"I was born on September 9, and my wife was born on the same date in the lunar calendar," he said. "So by picking this date we hope our marriage will last forever."
As the clock struck the magic hour, couples placed rings on each other's fingers and kissed demurely, their eyes glazing over with — what else — cloud nine expressions.
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Fei Jianjun, 40, who suffered from rhinocarcinoma, receives a CT scan at a hospital in Changchun, Jilin province August 19, 2010. Fei found a red knot on his nose last September, which then grew into a size as big as a human fist. He did not receive any medical treatment due to poverty until the hospital offered him a free surgery, local media reported.
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The Magnet women Brenda Allison - who claims that she has a powerful personal magnetic field that makes metal objects stick to her skin. Strangely, this even applies to non-magnetic objects.
Not only does the 50-year-old accounts manager from Holloway, North London, say that metal items including coins, keys and even tin lids attach themselves to her, she also claims that she inadvertently sets off car alarms, blows light bulbs and interferes with TV signals.
Or maybe she's just got rather sticky skin.
She says that she's been aware of her powers since nursery school, when she started affecting electrical equipment - but it wasn't until earlier this year that she discovered metal object would stick to her.
The novelty has long since worn off, apparently, with Allison saying that her 'magnetism' now mostly being an embarassment.
She is far from the first person to claim human magnetism - many others have claimed to have similar powers, often supporting much larger metal objects than Brenda does. Most famous are the Tenkaev family in Russia, where the supposed powers stretching across three generations, with grandfather Leonid Tenkaev reportedly able to lift 23kg objects with his chest.
There was even a conference devoted to human magnets in 1990. The Superfields conference in Bulgaria attracted 300 allegedly magnetic people - although the 'powers' don't actually seem to have anything to do with magnetism, as non-metal objects are often held as well.
This applies equally to Miss Allison, of course - despite her claims that her stickyness is down to her body generating an unusually strong electromagnetic field, most of the coins she has stuck to her in the above picture aren't magnetic. (Only the copper-plated steel 2p coin would stick to a real magnet; the copper-nickel alloys of the other coins wouldn't.)
One of the earliest human magnets, a young girl from Georgia, USA named Lulu Hearst, gained fame for her feats of magnetism in the late 19th century - but eventually admitted that it was all achieved with simple trickery.
Miss Allison says that doctors have advised her that her 'magnetism' may be due to stress.
Gabe Marsh a 6-year-old with no legs and one arm, is 'the greatest accomplishment' on the Guntersville swim team
When the Marshes adopted another child, Ed told his wife, Ann, "Well, there's one you'll never have swim.''
His pessimism was understandable. Gabe, the seventh of their 10 adopted children, was born with no legs and one arm.
Even Ann believed her string of teaching children to swim had ended. By then, her streak had exceeded 60.
She and Ed had two biological children, six other adopted children and more than 50 foster children.
But Gabe?
Gabe, who'd had "more hair than he had body,'' as Ann put it when she saw him for the first time at Huntsville Hospital, just days after his birth.
Gabe, who was four pounds, two ounces when the Marshes took him home on April 6, 2004, a then-four-day-old whose future appeared little more than being "an invalid,'' in Ed's words.
Swimming, in their view, was for children with two arms and two legs.
"He was the only child we'd taken that I had doubts about,'' says Ed, 61, the retired manager of a poultry plant. "You figure, 'What can he do?' You figure (he's an) invalid. But he's a long way from invalid, as you can see.''
Look at him. He's 6 years old, about to enter the first grade at Guntersville Elementary, a devotee of cars and macaroni and cheese.
He's wearing his black-and-red swim suit and dangling his goggles near his bicep, all that remains of his right arm.
Late on the afternoon of July 6, he's preparing to swim three events for the Guntersville swim team against Decatur in the final meet of the regular season.
"They just announced the relay,'' Ed says to Ann and Gabe.
Ed picks up Gabe and carries him toward the pool.
Spectators sitting in lounge chairs line the Guntersville pool. Some of them watch Ed and Gabe head toward Lane 2 and whisper.
"You going to go off the blocks or the wall, son?'' Ed asks just before Gabe swims the final leg of the 8-and-under medley relay.
Typical Gabe. He'll go off the blocks, just like the other kids.
"OK, Gabe, get ready, son,'' Ed says.
In a swimming suit that's too long for him, Gabe balances himself on the blocks and strains for a better view of the swimmer who's about to finish the third leg.
Ed, Ann and others who have followed Gabe's progress are expecting big things. In the previous meet, Gabe compiled his best time of the season - 1:082 in the 25-yard short freestyle.
In Guntersville's previous eight meets, Gabe has improved his time in each meet.
"We have kids who can win state (championships),'' says Mary Shea Gaston, one of the Guntersville parent volunteers. "But he's our greatest accomplishment.''
Says Gaston's 12-year-old daughter, Virginia: "At first, I was worried he'd drown. When he actually swam, he swam better than other people.''
He's the fourth and final swimmer in Event 11, the 8-and-under medley relay. He leans over the block, sees the swimmer of the third leg touch the wall.
"GET OUT OF HERE," Ed yells.
Gabe bobs and twists, turning his head in and out the water, managing to avoid the ropes on each side of Lane 2.
But almost immediately, Ed senses something amiss.
"He jumped too deep," he says.
'You beat him'
Gabe was born on April 2, 2004, at Marshall Medical Center South in Boaz. Soon after his birth, he was transferred to Huntsville Hospital, where he was placed in the Neonatal Unit as a precaution.
When he was two days old, Holly Rogers, a social worker at the Department of Human Resources in Guntersville, called Ann.
"Would you take him?'' she recalls Rogers asking her.
The Marshes usually accepted "special needs and medically fragile children,'' as Ann puts it.
Gabe qualified on both accounts. At birth, he was 8 inches long, no more than 9, by Ann's estimate.
"What's wrong with him?'' Ann asked Rogers.
Even now, the Marshes are unsure of why Gabe was born with no legs and one arm. Ann's only explanation is that Gabe's birth mother perhaps took some medication for morning sickness, now outlawed, that's known for causing birth defects.
Gabe's birth mother had come to Marshall County from Mexico about two weeks before delivery. Ann wonders if Gabe's mother had taken the medication in Mexico.
Almost immediately, Ann knew she would take Gabe. But first, she wanted to talk to her husband.
When she told him about Gabe, she made sure to leave out the part about him having one arm and no legs. She wanted Gabe's birth defects to have no effect on his decision.
"He'd take every one they called about,'' Ann says. "He thinks every one needs a home.''
There was never much doubt, really. Both Ann and Ed wanted Gabe.
With Gabe's acceptance, more than 60 adopted or foster children had been through their home. Many of them, including six of the Marshes' adopted children, have been members of the Guntersville swim team.
"From the time we get 'em,'' Ed says, "she sticks 'em in the pool.''
Ann wants her children to swim so they won't drown if they fall into a pool - her biggest fear, she says.
But she didn't think Gabe would swim, either.
"I thought you had to have two legs and arms to swim,'' she says.
Last summer, Gabe began to show an interest in swimming. Ann was in the pool at the Marshes' home on Wyeth Mountain, occupied with the other children, when Gabe swam to her.
She was unaware that he'd even been in the water until she saw him swimming underwater.
"I guess he sees the rest of the kids doing it, and he wants to do it, too,'' she says. "I guess that's why he swims.''
With one hand and no legs, Gabe, all 27 inches of him, is also capable of driving a child's battered-powered four-wheeler.
"He'll guide the four-wheeler with his left hand and he'll push the (power) button with his nub,'' Ed says.
One day, Ed found Gabe in the loft of the Marshes' barn. Like each of the family's nine adopted children at home, Gabe had managed to climb the 13 steps to the loft.
"He just doesn't realize he can't do like the rest of the kids,'' Ed says. "He doesn't realize he's handicapped.''
Before the swim meet began last Tuesday, Gabe played Spiderman games on his Gameboy DS, using his nub and his left hand, his good hand, to maneuver the controls.
When it's his turn to swim, he swims slower than usual. In the medley relay, his time is hurt by a slow start.
In the 25-yard short freestyle, he finishes with a time of 1:17.72. A lifeguard lifts Gabe out of the pool after his second race, and Gabe appears disappointed.
He thinks he has finished last, but Ann has some news after she grabs him from the lifeguard.
"Look, Gabe,'' she says. "You beat him. He's still swimming."
Gabe sees the opposing swimmer still finishing the race and laughs.
"You've swam better than that,'' Ann tells him as he licks his goggles.
"Mom," Gabe replies, "can I have an Icee?"
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