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Iceland's Penis Museum Gets First Human Member
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIceland's penis museum finally has its featured member. Pall Arason, who passed away last year at the age of 95, has officially donated his "pickled penis" to the Phallological Museum, giving the bizarre exhibit its very first human specimen. Sigurdur Hjartarson, Arason's friend and the museum's curator, says that Arason's posthumous gift helps to complete the growing collection of whale, bear, seal and other mammalian private parts. Elín Eydís Friðriksdóttir Iceland's Phallological Museum finally has its featured member, the "pickled penis" belonging to a late friend of the ...
Report: Nordic Nations Are Best for Gender Equality
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 12) -- Which countries have the greatest equality between men and women? Look north. For the second year in a row, Iceland topped the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report. Nordic nations took four of the five top slots in the report's rankings. Iceland was followed by Norway at No. 2, Finland in third place and Sweden in fourth. Denmark was seventh. "Nordic countries continue to lead the way in eliminating gender inequality," said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, according to the BBC. "Low gender gaps are directly correlated with ...
Fischer Paternity Results Are In: The Kid Is Not His Daughter
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- The results of Bobby Fischer's postmortem paternity test are in: Jinky Young, the 9-year-old daughter of Fischer's former lover, is not his offspring. Worldwide chess champion Fischer, who died in 2008 at the age of 64, spent years as a nomad after all but forsaking his American heritage. During a stint in the Philippines, he allegedly entered into a sexual relationship with Marilyn Young, Jinky's mother. Young offered up several documents, including postcards Fischer allegedly wrote to Jinky, as evidence to prove that he'd fathered the child. Kazuhiro Nogi, AFP / Getty ...
Shark Week's Latest Star, the Greenland Shark, Up Close
By Kathryn Yao - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- In celebration of the Discovery Channel's annual "Shark Week," (Aug. 1- 4, 9 p.m. E/P), Surge Desk brings you the latest on the shark that's all the rage right now, having just appeared on Monday night's programming bloc: the Greenland Shark. Name The Greenland shark is aptly named, being native to the North Atlantic Ocean, which is next to Greenland and Iceland. It is also known as the sleeper shark, for its propensity for remaining inactive most of the time. Habitat They are versatile, swimming in deep and shallow waters, but mainly in cold temperatures. Their territories ...
Iceland Fishing Stunt Could Be Greatest Goal Celebration Ever
By Randy - AOL NewsGiven the fact that soccer is best played on dry land, the pursuit of fishing doesn't usually have much of a place on the pitch. Icelandic side Stjarnan does its best to bridge the gap between angling and footie, however, with this hilarious cast-reel-and-catch goal celebration that has to be seen to be believed. Kudos to the club for taking the art of "flopping" to a whole new, positive level. [Via] ...
Argentina Legalizes Gay Marriage, Joining 9 Other Countries
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 15) -- Today Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex unions. Ignoring the staunch line of the Catholic Church, Argentina's Senate voted 33-27 (with three abstentions) to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians. President Cristina Fernandez is a strong supporter of the new law and had urged its passage. In the past 10 years, gay marriage has gained remarkable acceptance throughout the world. As the website FiveThirtyEight reported, roughly 250 million people now live in a place where same-sex marriage is legal. Surge Desk has put together the ...
Chess Great Bobby Fischer's Body Exhumed
By not in system - AOL NewsREYKJAVIK, Iceland (July 5) - Authorities in Iceland have exhumed the body of American chess champion Bobby Fischer to determine whether he is the father of a 9-year-old girl from the Philippines. Police district commissioner Olafur Helgi Kjartansson said Fischer's corpse was dug up from a cemetery near Selfoss in southern Iceland early Monday in the presence of a doctor, a priest and other officials. AP Bobby Fischer is shown in a photo from 1971. The remains of the chess legend were exhumed so DNA samples could be taken for a paternity test, Icelandic officials said. Kjartansson said the ...
Mayor Jon Gnarr, the Best Party, and Iceland's Punk Politics
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyIt's a punk rock Cinderella story. For Iceland, that is. Jon Gnarr, 43, a satirical comedian and punk rocker who once toured with Bjork's former band, the Sugarcubes, created his Best Party as a joke in December 2009. Six months later, he's running the show as mayor of Reykjavik, the country's capital and largest city. The Best Party consists of rebellious punk rockers who hung around Reykjavik's main bus station in the late 1970s and 1980s. Think New York's CBGB's circa 1978. It's a dream only anarchy-famished punks in the United States can imagine. What if Patti Smith became mayor of New ...
Bobby Fischer's Odd Life Gets Stranger in Death
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyThanks to an order from Iceland's Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday, the body of Bobby Fischer, former chess champion, will be exhumed and tested to see if he's the father of a 9-year-old Filipino girl. And so Fischer's odd life continues to get stranger in death. Fischer died in 2008 after years of obscurity following his exit from the chess world, which he captivated as a young man, winning the 1972 world championship against the USSR's Boris Spassky. Then he became a recluse, playing no competitive chess (except a controversial re-match against Spassky in 1992 in Yugoslavia, which was ...
Travelers Finally Get a Lift as Europe's Airports Reopen
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 20) -- To the travelers stranded throughout much of Europe for the past week, the roar of jets filling the skies today could not have been a more welcome sound. "We were in the hotel having breakfast, and we heard an aircraft take off," Bob Basso, a San Diego resident who had been stuck in Paris, told ABC News. "Everybody got up and applauded." According to Europe's air traffic agency, Eurocontrol, some 13,000 flights were cleared to take off and land today at the airports that have been closed since the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano last week. A normal Tuesday ...
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