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UNBELIEVABLE ... FIRST CLIMB ON BURJ KHALIFA
UNBELIEVABLE. ..
Alain Robert , the French Spiderman took the tallest building
in front of a crowd numbering the tens of thousands without any safety mechanisms in place. Alain Robert completed the climb in only 20 minutes!!!!! !!!!!!!!!Alain Robert has also climbed the Sears Tower in Chicago, Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, EiffelTowerin Paris and EmpireStateBuilding in New York City .
The little girl who had eight limbs
Pictured: The little girl who had eight limbs and was worshipped as a deity starts school
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 6:20 PM on 27th January 2010
Last updated at 6:20 PM on 27th January 2010
She was born with a unique body - eight limbs and two torsos fused at the hips.
Now Lakshmi Tatma, the Indian toddler whose plight touched the world, has grown up and started school.
Two years after a ground-breaking operation to separate her from a parasitic twin, Lakshmi is a lively and bubbly four-year-old.
She loves playing cricket with her older brother, has a tendency to boss around her newfound friends and remains firmly a daddy's girl.
'When I think of the way she was, never in a million years would Lakshmi have been able to go to school or have the life she does today,' said her mother Poonam, 26.
'All the things she's capable of now were impossible two years ago.
'I often try to think what she might be like today if she hadn't had the operation - she couldn't even sit up before and now she runs around like other children.'
Born in a dusty farming village in India's poorest state, Lakshmi was revered as a deity and worshipped from birth.
Villagers, who believed she was the reincarnation of the Hindu goddess of wealth and fertility, would seek her blessing daily and leave gifts at her bedside.
But Lakshmi's resemblance to her mythological namesake came at a terrible price. She could not walk, stand, or even sit.
The little girl was joined to a headless parasitic twin that had stopped developing in her mother's womb. Doctors were convinced she could not have survived into adulthood.
Now fully recovered from the 27-hour operation to save her, Lakshmi is almost unrecognisable from her former self.
Beneath the surface, however, lurk a series of medical problems that threaten her future and will require years of surgery.
Six months after the complex operation to remove Lakshmi's parasitic twin, doctors discovered she had developed scoliosis, or a curvature of the spine.
Without a complex operation to correct her spine doctors have warned her back will be forced into increasingly severe deformities as she grows, possibly leaving her disabled.
Separately, Lakshmi requires an operation to 'detether' her spine after it was discovered she was born with abnormal tissue connecting the spinal cord to her nervous system.
In a further operation orthopaedic surgeons must perform a procedure to 'close her hips', which are set too far apart and result in an unusual 'gaited' walk.
Finally, plastic surgeons will need to find a way to create buttocks for Lakshmi, which did not form in the womb because of the unique way she was connected to her parasitic twin. In the same operation surgeons will have to fix related problems with her bladder and intestines.
'Lakshmi has come such a long, long way but we're very scared for the future,' said her mother Poonam.
Brave: Lakshmi Tatma, dressed in her school uniform and standing proudly on her own two feet, smiles at her home in Jodhpur earlier this month
Miracle recovery: Lakshmi plays with her younger sister Saraswati as her mum Poonam looks on at their home this month
Daddy's girl: Lakshmi and her dad Shambu at their home this month. Lakshmi's parents are still fearful for her future, despite the success of the operation
Born to impoverished parents in the frequently lawless state of Bihar, in India's volatile northeast, Lakshmi faced an uncertain future until a wealthy doctor heard of her plight and offered to operate on her for free.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Sharan Patil, owner of the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore 2,000 miles south, travelled to Lakshmi's remote village in 2007 to meet the child and offer her parents the chance of a lifetime.
After more than a month planning the separation, Dr Patil's team attempted the first operation of its kind in the world.
Hundreds of journalists camped outside the hospital throughout the 27-hour surgery.
Lakshmi's fame, having spread from her tiny village around the world, prompted Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN), a charitable school looking after disabled children in the desert state of Rajasthan, to offer her parents a place to live and the chance of an education for Lakshmi and her brother Mithilesh.
Dr Bhairoon Singh Bhati, the secretary of SKSN, said: 'Lakshmi is a special case for us. She's a very challenging case because you can never tell from her medical history when she might next fall ill.
'Her scoliosis is an example of the problems Lakshmi faces because we had no way of knowing she would develop a curvature of the spine.
'Similarly, despite all the problems she still faces we have no way of knowing what may crop up in the future.
'The biggest difficulty caring for Lakshmi is that she's a unique case - there's never been a child like her before so we have nothing to refer back to.'
Under Dr Bhati's guidance Lakshmi has started school, joining her elder brother as the only members of their family to ever receive an education.
'Lakshmi has come such a long, long way but we're very scared for the future,' said her mother Poonam.
Brave: Lakshmi Tatma, dressed in her school uniform and standing proudly on her own two feet, smiles at her home in Jodhpur earlier this monthMiracle recovery: Lakshmi plays with her younger sister Saraswati as her mum Poonam looks on at their home this monthDaddy's girl: Lakshmi and her dad Shambu at their home this month. Lakshmi's parents are still fearful for her future, despite the success of the operationBorn to impoverished parents in the frequently lawless state of Bihar, in India's volatile northeast, Lakshmi faced an uncertain future until a wealthy doctor heard of her plight and offered to operate on her for free.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Sharan Patil, owner of the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore 2,000 miles south, travelled to Lakshmi's remote village in 2007 to meet the child and offer her parents the chance of a lifetime.
After more than a month planning the separation, Dr Patil's team attempted the first operation of its kind in the world.
Hundreds of journalists camped outside the hospital throughout the 27-hour surgery.
Lakshmi's fame, having spread from her tiny village around the world, prompted Sucheta Kriplani Shiksha Niketan (SKSN), a charitable school looking after disabled children in the desert state of Rajasthan, to offer her parents a place to live and the chance of an education for Lakshmi and her brother Mithilesh.
Dr Bhairoon Singh Bhati, the secretary of SKSN, said: 'Lakshmi is a special case for us. She's a very challenging case because you can never tell from her medical history when she might next fall ill.
'Her scoliosis is an example of the problems Lakshmi faces because we had no way of knowing she would develop a curvature of the spine.
'Similarly, despite all the problems she still faces we have no way of knowing what may crop up in the future.
'The biggest difficulty caring for Lakshmi is that she's a unique case - there's never been a child like her before so we have nothing to refer back to.'
Under Dr Bhati's guidance Lakshmi has started school, joining her elder brother as the only members of their family to ever receive an education.
Intresting Unknown Facts
In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe .
About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.
A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.
Beaver Lake , in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.
Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.
Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.
The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.
The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.
In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire , USA.
American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.
The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.
The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California . It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.
The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.
The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
The industrial complex of Cubatao in Brazil is known as the Valley of Death because its pollution has destroyed the trees and rivers nearby.
Tibet is the highest country in the world. Its average height above sea level is 4500 meters.
Some of the oldest mountains in the world are the Highlands in Scotland. They are estimated to be about 400 million years old.
Fresh water from the River Amazon can be found up to 180 km out to sea.
The White Sea, in Russia, has the lowest temperature, only -2 degrees centigrade. The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.
There is no land at all at the North Pole, only ice on top of sea. The Arctic Ocean has about 12 million sq km of floating ice and has the coldest winter temperature of -34 degrees centigrade.
The Antarctic ice sheet is 3-4 km thick, covers 13 million sq km and has temperatures as low as -70 degrees centigrade.
Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugarcane.
Finger Power Battery
It's just a helpful solution for a tricky situation. The situation being: you running out of juice on your mobile phone. So what do you do? Remove the battery from the back of the phone; give it a few good turns around your index finger and its gathered enough power to last you a conversation or a safe trip to your charger and electric point.
A TOWN CALLED
Are the residents called Fuckers?
What are the mothers called?
What would you be learning at the Fucking high school ?
Does the Fucking hospital help you with anything else?
If you tell people you work in Fucking,
Will you get arrested for prostitution?
If your friend came from another town, wouldn't he be your Fucking friend?
Is the dumb village idiot a dumb Fuck or a Fucking idiot?
Escaped Lion in Sharjah
Unbelievable!
Technicians at Rolla car repair shops were having a normal day
At work, when suddenly a nervous looking LION came out of no where...seemingly hungry because of how skinny his body looks
Workers freaked out, jumping over each other, some locking themselves up in cars, some in the shops nearby, and some just ran away...
But one brave guy took the picture of this Lion without making a sound....and there was the SHOCK when the Lion turned around...nobody could believe it.........
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Turns out it's their Indian co-worker's dog. He shaved the dog in such a way to look like a Lion.... let's just say the poor Indian co-worker has gotten a bit more than a hard pat on the back ;-) hahaha!!!
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