Mandy Sellars’ legs are 4 times bigger than the normal size that make her life difficult. The woman with giant legs has Proteus Syndrome. If you look at the picture below, she has an enormous legs and feet. She could pass for a lady Hulk.

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On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the costliest accident in history. The Chernobyl disaster has been called the biggest socio-economic catastrophe in peacetime history. 50% of the area of Ukraine is in some way contaminated. Over 200,000 people had to be evacuated and resettled while 1.7 million people were directly affected by the disaster. The death toll attributed to Chernobyl, including people who died from cancer years later, is estimated at 125,000. The total costs including cleanup, resettlement, and compensation to victims has been estimated to be roughly $200 Billion. The cost of a new steel shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear plant will cost $2 billion alone.

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in 1955 in a small village just outside Casablanca, 26 year old Zahra Aboutalib is pregnant with her first child. She was looking forward to giving birth, but after 48 hours of painful labour, she was rushed to the local hospital. Doctors informed her that she would need a caesarean section. In the days that followed, Zahra continued to suffer excruciating labour pains but the baby remained resolutely in her womb. After a few more days the pains ceased and the baby stopped moving.

In Moroccan culture, it is believed that a baby can sleep inside the mother to protect her honour. Zahra believed this myth and put the pregnancy out of her mind. She adopted three children and in due course they made her a grandmother.

Many years later when Zahra was 75 years old, the pains suddenly returned. Her son being concerned for his mother’s well-being wanted her to see a specialist. For this they had to travel to Rabat where they saw Professor Taibi Ouazzani. He suspected the protruding belly was being caused by an ovarian tumour and arranged for her to have an ultra-sound scan. This revealed a large mass that he could not identify.

He referred Zahra to a specialist radiographer for a second opinion. He could see it was a calcified structure of some sort, but it took a detailed MRI scan to reveal that it was the baby Zahra had conceived 46 years earlier. Zahra had an ectopic pregnancy where the egg had implanted in the fallopian tube. The foetus that developed, burst out of the fallopian tube and continued to develop in the abdominal cavity. It survived by attaching it’s placenta to vital organs around her stomach. Professor Ouazzania was faced with a difficult decision when deciding if it would be safe to try and remove the foetus. The foetus weighed 7lb and measured 42cm in length.

When they operated they discovered that the foetus had calcified and was a hard, solid lump. It was, essentially, a stone-baby. More concerning was the fact that it had fused with her abdominal wall and vital organs. After nearly 4 hours the surgeons manage to remove the calcified foetus from Zahra and the operation is hailed a success.

In an ectopic pregnancy, if the dead foetus is too large to be re-absorbed by the mother’s body it becomes a foreign body to the mother’s immune system. To protect itself from possible infection the mother’s body will encase the foetus in a calciferous substance as the tissues die and dehydrate. As the calciferous wall builds up, the foetus is gradually mummified becoming a lithopedion or stone baby.

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B.C. couple make it 18 babies in 23 years - The couple immigrated to Canada from Romania in 1990 and now live in Abbotsford, about 60 kilometres southeast of Vancouver. Their 17 other children range in age from 20 months to 23 years old. Alexandru Ionce, who works in construction , does not know if the couple will have more children. “We never planned how many children to have,” he said. “We just let God guide our lives, you know, because we strongly believe life comes from God and that’s the reason we did not stop the life. “We let life come.” The family now has 10 girls and eight boys.

Small calculation, if she is not working (how could she) and 16 of her children are under age 18, guestimating that her husband earns maybe $45,000 a year, they would qualify for $3500 in Child Tax Benefits each month, or $42,000 each year. With a very raw calculation, by the time their youngest reaches age 18, even receiving less each time a child turns 18, this family will have received well over a half a million dollars in child tax benefits. This doesn’t include their GST entitlement, or other provincial benefits. (Source)

The Manga Report overwhelmingly supported the efficacy, safety, scientific validity, and cost-effectiveness of chiropractic for low-back pain. Additionally, it found that higher patient satisfaction levels were associated with chiropractic care than with medical treatment alternatives. “Evidence from Canada and other countries suggests potential savings of hundreds of millions annually,” the Manga Report states.

“The literature clearly and consistently shows that the major savings from chiropractic management come from fewer and lower costs of auxiliary services, fewer hospitalizations, and a highly significant reduction in chronic problems, as well as in levels and duration of disability.”

A broadcast interview showing Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion struggling in English to grasp a question about the economy.

In it, host Steve Murphy asks Dion: “If you were prime minister now, what would you have done about the economy and this crisis that Mr. Harper has not done?” Dion struggles to understand the question’s conditional subjunctive tense, before attempting to answer, stumbling as he describes his 30-day, five-point plan for post-election consultations. The anchor reposes the question and the encounter descends into a somewhat farcical encounter, as Dion and the host try to make themselves understood. At one point, an aide explains off-camera what the question is. Dion answers Murphy’s question the third time it is posed.

Here is something for the Dion apologists to consider. In one on one interviews with the media, the outlet furnishes the questions in advance to the party handlers and party leader. Therefore, in this instance, either Dion lost his cue cards in his backpack, or his handlers failed to prepare him.
After watching it on YouTube, I really just got the impression that Dion heard the question clearly but didn’t really know how to answer it. It wasn’t a language thing or a disability thing. He just couldn’t come up with an answer on the fly.

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And Bonaventure Island, one of the largest and most accessible bird sanctuaries in the world with more than 280,000 birds. Bonaventure Island (Île Bonaventure) is a major tourist destination in QC Canada with boat and island tours from May to October. Quebec City to the Gaspe is 700 Kms or 9:00 hours, there at the Bonaventure Island you will be greeted by a most sensational fauna spectacle offered by one of the largest Northern Gannet colonies in the world. You will fall under the spell of the playful seals! Accompanied by a naturalist from the Parc National de l’Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, the human history of this island will be revealed to you.

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The U.S. Postal Service recently released a new stamp for the state of Colorado featuring the state’s flag and a mountain in the background. Unfortunately, the stamp’s designer must have been on something when he created it because he featured a mountain from Wyoming on it. The problem was first identified by Bob Michael, a mountain climber, when he realized he had seen the peak before. After looking into it, he realized it was Wyoming’s Mount Helen located in the Wind River Range. A Denver news crew looked into the claim and was startled to find Michael was correct, even though the artist strongly disagrees.
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A Lund, Sweden second-grader was utterly disappointed when his teacher decided to take away his birthday invitations from the whole class. The student handed out invitations before class began to all but two students, causing a bit of a stir. Apparently the school has an actual rule regarding the matter and the teacher felt it was best to mess up the party for everyone as opposed to having a couple of students feel left out. We think he was more jealous of not being invited instead of being opposed to the invitations being handed only to certain students but that’s just our opinion.
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